{"id":36283,"date":"2014-11-15T09:30:17","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T14:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=36283"},"modified":"2014-11-15T09:35:35","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T14:35:35","slug":"ncaa-football-week-12-picks-pittsburgh-panthers-vs-north-carolina-tar-heels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-football-week-12-picks-pittsburgh-panthers-vs-north-carolina-tar-heels-36283\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Football Week 12 Picks: Pittsburgh Panthers vs. North Carolina Tar Heels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pittsburgh Panthers vs. North Carolina Tar Heels
\nSaturday, 11\/15\/14, 12:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 North Carolina -2
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 North Carolina -2
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 69
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 65.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Pittsburgh Panthers and North Carolina Tar Heels are fighting for bowl eligibility<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pittsburgh needs two wins in its final three games to become bowl eligible, which is important to consider when making your Week 12 NCAA football betting picks, as it looks to capture its first win in this series in four tries.\u00a0 The Panthers defense ranks 20th nationally in allowing just 334.8 yards per game, with much of that success due to the secondary\u2014limiting foes to 176.8 yards through the air per contest.\u00a0 Pittsburgh is 4-10 SU and 8-6 ATS as underdogs the last two-plus seasons, with no clear edge in terms of the betting total (7-7 Over\/Under).<\/p>\n

The Panthers have one of the best young offensive players in the Atlantic Coast Conference, with James Conner being the country\u2019s third-leading rusher with 1,342 yards on the ground.\u00a0 Pittsburgh started the year as one of the youngest rosters in the country, with 81 underclassmen on its depth chart\u2014the highest such total among FBS teams in major college football.<\/p>\n

North Carolina had its two-game win streak snapped last time out, as it dropped a 47-20 decision to the Miami Hurricanes as 16.5-point road underdogs on Nov. 1, while getting out-gained for the seventh time in its last eight affairs.\u00a0 The Tar Heels are also in a position of needing to capture two of their final three games to potentially participate in the postseason.\u00a0 Offensively, quarterback Marquise Williams is the main player to watch, as he ranks second in the ACC and 20th in the country in averaging 303.0 yards of total offense.\u00a0 North Carolina is 17-5 SU and 12-9-1 ATS as favorites the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Tar Heels rank third in the ACC and 27th in the country in averaging 35.4 points per game\u2014scoring 30 or more in six of nine games during the 2014 campaign.\u00a0 Williams has a big target down field in Mack Hollins, who has a conference-best seven receiving touchdowns and he averages 20.2 yards per catch.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total, as the UNDER is 5-1 in the Panthers\u2019 last six games following a bye week.<\/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

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Pittsburgh Panthers vs. North Carolina Tar Heels Saturday, 11\/15\/14, 12:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 North Carolina -2 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 North Carolina -2 Opening Total:\u00a0 69 Current Total:\u00a0 65.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Pittsburgh needs two wins in its final three games to become bowl eligible, which is important to consider when making your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":34788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[387,3233,8481,7828,32,615],"class_list":["post-36283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-acc","tag-atlantic-coast-conference","tag-james-conner","tag-marquise-williams","tag-north-carolina-tar-heels","tag-pittsburgh-panthers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36283","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=36283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36284,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36283\/revisions\/36284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}