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Baylor rushes for 645 in defeating UNC
This is fine against Appalachian State and UNC Greensboro, but this might not be enough against Miami, Duke and Virginia. The former OR star had 42 last season.
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Johnny Jefferson rushed for 3 touchdowns & a record 299 yards, & No. 18 Baylor ran past No. 10 North Carolina 49-38 within the Russell Athletic Bowl on Tues. night. I think we’ve hopefully done, as a staff, a good job of allowing him to be successful and that’s the main thing. “So this is all about renewed respect for our football team”.
During the past few months Fedora had often spoke of his team’s grit.
For the second straight game, though, the Tar Heels ran into a squad that was a step faster.
Clemson enters the game with a 7-5 record.
And so afterward UNC found itself in an odd position. There was disappointment from the Tar Heels after the game for obvious reasons, but positivity was far more prevalent. The receiving corps still includes KD Cannon, Jay Lee, Chris Platt and Ishmael Zamora, giving Johnson plenty of down-the-field options tonight. “I’m always going to smile”, Marquise Williams said. It was another Williams run, this time for one yard and six points. After finishing up their nonconference schedule with Monday’s 96-63 win over UNC-Greensboro, the Tar Heels open conference play at home against Clemson and Georgia Tech on Saturday.
The Bears can never again be labeled a one-trick, soft offense by people who’ve never actually watched them. Instead, Baylor opted to direct snap to many of their skill players, and let them create offense with their legs. “It’s a 14-point swing on one play, basically”, Fedora said. “They know what has to be done”. “We felt like we had a lot of heart and determination, and they delivered”. UNC still had a chance to set a single-season program record for wins, but fell short against the Bears, finishing 11-3. It will be remembered, too, for what it accomplished offensively. Four Bears completed passes, and five combined for 645 rushing yards-including 333 in the first half, the fourth most by a Football Bowl Subdivision team in 2015, according to ESPN Stats and Information. Williams, the quarterback, overcame some early-season struggles to thrive during the final three-quarters of the season. On the ground, the North Carolina Tar Heels average 222.9 yards per game in which Elijah Hood tops with 1,345 yards and 17 touchdowns.
Defensively there are more questions, even though Schoettmer and fellow linebacker Shakeel Rashad are the only departing seniors.
However, they have been very good on offense, putting up 46.6 point per game, which ranked second in the country – with quarterback Patrick Mahomes II leading the way as he’s passed for 4,283 yards and 32 touchdowns. Baylor’s offensive line wore down UNC’s defensive line. On the second of two consecutive runs by T.J. Logan, Logan would fumble the football as he was diving for the end zone.
Asked how the defense would approach learning from how the season ended, Donnie Miles, a junior safety, said UNC would “go back to the drawing boards and go to work”.
He needed then to reunite a fractured team.
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The defeat offered a hard, sour ending to the Tar Heels’ best season in 18 years. Several said their overall success represented the start of something and that thought – that this season was just the beginning – provided comfort amid a painful loss.