North Carolina vs. NC State: The #14 Tar Heels collected their 11th straight win at the expense of the Wolfpack 45-34. “I think we had an excellent gameplan, in all honesty”. They were scoring pretty early and we just didn’t bounce back. “And if we get stops and we get the ball back to our offense, we’re a pretty good team”. Personnel mismatches. UNC won them all in that opening quarter, running for 214 yards and totaling 308 yards on the way to 553 for the game.
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UNC (20-9, 17-3 ACC) dropped the last three sets to Duke (17-13, 12-8 ACC) on Saturday after winning the first in Cameron Indoor Stadium, denying the Tar Heels a share of the ACC championship and ending their 12-game winning streak. On Williams’ 53-yard pass to Hollins, which came one play after a late-hit penalty kept alive a drive, Hollins sprinted past the N.C. State secondary and Williams’ pass met him in stride – a familiar sequence this season.
For the Tar Heels, matters aren’t as clear.
One week after receiving a scare in a win over Virginia Tech, North Carolina will look to win its 11th straight game when it visits N.C. State today at 3:30PM ET. “We weren’t ready. For whatever reason, we weren’t setting edges, we weren’t tackling and doing the things we’ve normally done”.
On the long runs, Logan burst through the line of scrimmage, made a move on a defender and simply outran the rest of the defense to the end zone. Hood had 220 yards rushing and Logan had 100.
The Wolfpack answered with Brissett’s 4-yard touchdown run on third down to complete an 87-yard drive.
Fedora has explained that he began each team meeting this year by stating two goals.
But the coach insisted it was more his team’s lack of readiness – at his own fault, he repeated – that caused the Pack to have to face a less and less surmountable mountain.
“We have to make new goals”, UNC coach Larry Fedora said. “I thought we did a good job of controlling the clock and just going down there methodically and getting touchdowns and some type of points”.
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UNC’s offensive success didn’t last in the second half or even much past the first quarter.
