{"id":2281,"date":"2008-10-10T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/notre-dame-north-carolina-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-10-10T20:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T01:09:00","slug":"notre-dame-north-carolina-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/notre-dame-north-carolina-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Notre Dame-North Carolina Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the North Carolina Tar Heels will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Kenan Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Tar Heels listed as 9-point favorites versus the Fighting Irish, while the game’s total is sitting at 47. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Stanford made a fourth quarter charge but it was not enough as Notre Dame won 28-21 in Week 6. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Irish covered the 6.5-point spread, while the combined score played OVER the day’s posted total of 48. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
North Carolina<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> scored 21 points in the second half to earn a 38-12 win over Connecticut<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> in Week 6. North Carolina<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> covered the 8-point spread, while the 50 points made it OVER the posted total of 46. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Cameron Sexton threw for 121 yards with one touchdown and one interception. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Notre Dame has won 2 straight games.
North Carolina<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Notre Dame: 4-1 SU, 3-2 ATS
North Carolina: 4-1 SU, 3-1 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Notre Dame most recently:
When playing in October are 7-3
When playing on grass are 6-4
After outgaining opponent are 7-3
When playing outside the conference are 6-4<\/p>\n

North Carolina most recently:
When playing in October are 3-7
When playing on grass are 6-4
After being outgained are 4-6
When playing outside the conference are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Notre Dame’s last 5 games on the road
Notre Dame is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games
Notre Dame is 5-2 ATS in its last 7 games
The total has gone UNDER in 12 of Notre Dame’s last 18 games
North Carolina is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games
North Carolina is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Notre Dame at Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Saturday, October 25
North Carolina<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at Virginia<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Saturday, October 18<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the North Carolina Tar Heels will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Kenan Stadium. Oddsmakers currently have the Tar Heels listed as 9-point favorites versus the Fighting Irish, while the game’s total is sitting at 47. Stanford made a fourth quarter … Continue reading Notre Dame-North Carolina Preview<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}