2009 NCAA - North Carolina
UNC head coach Butch Davis enters his third season with heightened expectations fueled by his team's steady improvements from Day 1 of his regime. Davis took over at Miami (Florida) in 1995 and laid the foundation for a national title (the year after he left for the Browns) in 2001 and almost another one in 2002. The foundation is being laid again in Chapel Hill, where Davis has rapidly built a speedy, bruising defense. Almost the entire two-deep returns and Davis's top-flight first recruits are now in their third year on campus.
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The defense picked off 20 passes last year, and only surrendered more than 24 points one time in the regular season. The offensive outlook is a bit more murky, as QB T.J. Yates is trying to return from multiple injuries. He's the starter entering camp, but his numbers (25 TD's and 22 INT's in two seasons) aren't overly special. An amazing FOUR Tar Heel receivers were drafted as well, so it remains to be seen how good Yates will be with an expected drop in production from that group. And while the Heels have depth in the backfield, the O-line loses a pair of three-year starters, which will certainly hurt.
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| ASK the bookie? - Carolina has covered 12 of its past 15 when catching points, and (depending on the line you got in the Duke game last year) the 'dog' was 9-3 in Tar Heel games last year and 7-2-2 (or so, again, depending on where you shopped) in 2007. As long as Davis continues to be friendly to the 'dogs', especially in ACC games, The Bookie will think favorably on his overall body of work, regardless of whether he builds the UNC program to national-championship caliber or not. |
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