{"id":2358,"date":"2008-10-17T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T01:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/north-carolina-virginia-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-10-17T20:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T01:31:00","slug":"north-carolina-virginia-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/north-carolina-virginia-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina-Virginia Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The North Carolina Tar Heels and the Virginia Cavaliers will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Scott Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Tar Heels listed as 4\u00bd-point favorites versus the Cavaliers, while the game’s total is sitting at 45. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Cameron Sexton’s 4-yard touchdown run early in the fourth quarter lifted North Carolina<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> over Notre Dame 29-24 in Week 7. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
UNC covered as 5.5-point home favorites as the teams played over the 47-point total posted by oddsmakers. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Cedric Peerman ran for 173 yards on 16 carries with two touchdowns to lead Virginia<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> past East Carolina<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 35-20 in Week 7. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Virginia<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> covered as 4-point home underdogs as the teams played over the 41.5-point total listed by sportsbooks. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
North Carolina<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 3 straight games.
Virginia<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
North Carolina<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 5-1 SU, 3-2 ATS
Virginia: 3-3 SU, 2-3 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
North Carolina<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> most recently:
When playing in October are 3-7
When playing on grass are 6-4
After being outgained are 4-6
When playing within the conference are 4-6<\/p>\n

Virginia<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> most recently:
When playing in October are 7-3
When playing on grass are 5-5
After outgaining opponent are 7-3
When playing within the conference are 7-3<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
North Carolina is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of North Carolina’s last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of North Carolina’s last 5 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of North Carolina’s last 5 games when playing Virginia
Virginia is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games when playing at home against North Carolina
Virginia is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against North Carolina
Virginia is 9-1 ATS in its last 10 games when playing North Carolina
Virginia is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing North Carolina<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
North Carolina<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> home to Boston<\/st1:PlaceName> College<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>, Saturday, October 25
Virginia<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at Georgia Tech, Saturday, October 25<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The North Carolina Tar Heels and the Virginia Cavaliers will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Scott Stadium. Oddsmakers currently have the Tar Heels listed as 4\u00bd-point favorites versus the Cavaliers, while the game’s total is sitting at 45. Cameron Sexton’s 4-yard touchdown run early in the … Continue reading North Carolina-Virginia 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-2358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358","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=2358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}