{"id":35950,"date":"2014-10-24T15:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T20:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=35950"},"modified":"2014-10-24T12:00:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T17:00:26","slug":"college-football-week-9-picks-north-carolina-tar-heels-vs-virginia-cavaliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-9-picks-north-carolina-tar-heels-vs-virginia-cavaliers-35950\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 9 Picks: North Carolina Tar Heels vs. Virginia Cavaliers"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Carolina Tar Heels vs. Virginia Cavaliers
\nSaturday, 10\/25\/14, 12:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Virginia -5.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Virginia -7
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 66.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 65
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Virginia Cavaliers are looking to snap a four-game losing streak in this ACC series<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

North Carolina snapped its four-game losing streak last Saturday, as it come away with a 48-43 victory over the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets as 2.5-point home favorites, while going OVER the betting total for the fourth time in five contests.\u00a0 The Tar Heels have won four straight games against the Cavaliers, which is important to consider when making your Week 9 college football betting picks, especially with the average margin of victory being 25.0 points over that period of time.\u00a0 North Carolina is 0-3 SU and 1-2 ATS as underdogs of 3.5 to 10 points the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 3-0 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Tar Heels are hoping that quarterback Marquise Williams can provide another huge performance, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college football betting lines, as he completed 38 of 47 passes for 390 yards and four touchdowns last time out.\u00a0 North Carolina ranks first in the ACC and 16th in the country in averaging 38.7 points per game\u2014scoring 30 or more in all but one game.<\/p>\n

Virginia hasn\u2019t dropped back-to-back games all season, as it looks to bounce back from a 20-13 defeat to the Duke Blue Devils as three-point road underdogs, but it did manage to win the statistical battle for a fifth consecutive affair.\u00a0 The Cavaliers are 45-42-2 SU all-time in Homecoming games\u2014splitting two such meetings in this rivalry in that situation.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to point out that this is tied for the third-longest rivalry in FBS history.\u00a0 Virginia is 7-4 SU and 3-8 ATS as favorites the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Cavaliers are the only team in the country with three players nationally in the top 45 in sacks over the course of their careers, while they also have a major offensive weapon in running back Kevin Parks, who sits behind just six players with 2,976 yards since arriving in Charlottesville.\u00a0 Since 1982, Virginia is 15-2-1 SU when committing fewer turnovers than North Carolina.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Cavaliers due to the favorite going 4-0 ATS in the last four meetings.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a winning season and let the college football handicappers at Maddux Sports line your pockets with cash.\u00a0 Long term packages are available now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

North Carolina Tar Heels vs. Virginia Cavaliers Saturday, 10\/25\/14, 12:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Virginia -5.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Virginia -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 66.5 Current Total:\u00a0 65 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker North Carolina snapped its four-game losing streak last Saturday, as it come away with a 48-43 victory over the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[387,7644,7828,32,2977],"class_list":["post-35950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-acc","tag-kevin-parks","tag-marquise-williams","tag-north-carolina-tar-heels","tag-virginia-cavaliers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35951,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35950\/revisions\/35951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}