North Carolina vs Georgia Tech 2011 College Football Predictions Week 4 - Sports-odds.com

North Carolina vs. Georgia Tech 2011 College Football Predictions Week 4: A pair of unbeaten ACC Coastal Division teams collide at Bobby Dodd Stadium Saturday in Atlanta, when 24th-ranked Georgia Tech, coached by Paul Johnson hosts 25th ranked North Carolina led by QB Bryn Renner and coached by Everett Withers (ESPN, Noon). The College Football Odds board at online sports book Bodog.eu shows the Yellow Jackets posted as 7-chalk favorites versus the Tar Heels with a 58 total. Tech is priced at -260 on the Bodog moneyline to win SU while Carolina is getting +220 odds on pulling an upset SU.

Both teams are 3-0 in 2011, and have pleased backers at the betting window. Carolina, 3-0 SU is 2-1 ATS while Tech, also 3-0 SU, is also 3-0 ATS. The Yellow Jackets have performed better against ACC competition going 6-4 of its last 10 games while the Tar Heels have split 10 at 5-5. The Tar Heels have been a good road team dating back to 2010 going 5-1 SU in their last six games. The Tar Heels are 5-0 in their last five games played anywhere.

Georgia Tech is 5-0 SU in its last five games playing at home versus North Carolina and is 11-2 SU in its last 13 games against the Tar Heels. Bettors who enjoy playing the OVER/UNDER Total might want to consider playing the OVER in this one. The total has gone OVER in four of Carolina's last five games when playing on the road against the Yellow Jackets and the total has gone OVER in Georgia Tech's last five games.

North Carolina's 77th ranking in NCAA passing defense will be challenged facing the Yellow Jackets. The pass efficiency rating for Georgia Tech QB Tevin Washington in the Yellow Jackets first three games of the year, a 63-21 win over Western Carolina, a 49-21 triumph at Middle Tennessee and a 66-24 domination of Kansas is a soaring 334.3. He has completed 17 of 28 passes for 637 yards and 7 TDs. Washington leads the ACC this week in pass efficiency rating but falls 15 pass attempts short of the NCAA minimum to qualify. However, if 15 incomplete passes were added to his passing totals to reach the minimum, Washingtons efficiency rating would still be 208.02, and that would be good enough to lead the ACC.

The Tar Heel defense had a good game versus Virginia in Week-3 intercepting Cavalier quarterbacks twice, and the passing of QB Bryn Renner and freshman RB Giovani Bernards 102-yard rushing day delivered the Tar Heels to their second straight win over Virginia. It is also Carolina's first win in an ACC opener since 2000. The Tar Heels rushed for 222 yards while Renner went 15-of-21 through the air. The Tar Heels defense allowed a total of three points on consecutive Cavalier possessions that consumed 22 first half plays.

The Yellow Jackets set an ACC record with 604 rushing yards and an NCAA mark for yards per carry in a single game in avenging last seasons loss to the Jayhawks. Tech ran its season point total to 178 over three wins; thats the second-highest by any ACC team in its first three games of a season. RB Orwin Smith set the tone for the day with a 95-yard TD run on Techs first play.

In his last 11 games, including the final eight contests of 2010, North Carolina senior WR Dwight Jones has averaged 107.1 receiving yards per game. Jones, who has had back-to-back 100- yard receiving games against JMU and Rutgers this year, has topped the 100-yard mark six times over his last 10 games and has 70 receptions for 1,178 yards and 7 TDs.

Georgia Tech will be wanting to make a statement versus the Tar Heels in this game with a friendly College Football Odds -7 betting line.

MY PREDICTION: Georgia Tech wins by 10 - take the -7 ATS and leave the total alone.

North Carolina vs. Georgia Tech 2011 College Football Predictions Week 4

Betting Line (Bodog.eu)

Yellow Jackets -7, -260 ML, 58 total

Tar Heels +7 +220 ML