The home team has covered four straight years, including a 38 pt win last year by NC. This spread is a few points too high and more indicative of what happened last week at Chapel Hill when Virginia Tech won 34-3 in a very ugly game. Before we do any downgrading of UNC, that score was all about playing under the wrath of Hurricane Matthew. UNC QB Mitch Tribusky had led the team to four straight wins before that and threw for over 400 yards in the last three, including the upset win at FSU. I'll glady take the underdog with NC plus the points here on Saturday afternoon in what I expect to be a shooutout.

MY PREDICTION: 35-33 type of final score so take the pts with NC.