North Carolina Tar Heels vs Syracuse Orange Prediction, Odds and Picks for Today, 10/31/25

The Bill Belichick experiment in Chapel Hill is off to a horrendous start in year 1 with a 2-5 record, including 4 consecutive losses. Syracuse also enters this one riding a 4-game losing skid, but one of these squads’ woes in conference play must come to an end on Halloween night. I lean Syracuse in this spot. Oftentimes when analyzing data, you can skew the numbers to fit a specific argument, but there is simply no spinning it with the Tar Heels; it’s bad.

UNC ranks 129th in total defense and 124th in scoring offense with only 18.3 points per game, and to make matters worse, the roster is missing a big-time playmaker on both sides of the ball. Now, things haven’t been much better for the Orange as of late, but the offense has at least shown the ability to make big plays down field, unlike the Tar Heels. Syracuse ranks 27th in FBS with 41 plays going at least 20 yards, while UNC ranks tied for dead-last with only 15 such plays all season. In what is shaping up to be an ugly dog fight, I’ve got the Orange covering at home.

UNC vs Syracuse prediction: Syracuse Orange -2.5 (-110) available at time of publishing. Playable at that number or better.

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