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View all of the top plays from the UNC Tar Heels’ Football victory over Syracuse 31-6 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina at Kenan Stadium.
RB Michael Carter added 138 yards of total offense for UNC, which opened the season with an ACC win for the first time since beating Clemson 45-0 in 1996 from Brown’s first stint as coach. . This was Syracuse’s first visit to Chapel Hill since joining the ACC before the 2013-14 season. The Orange’s last trip here was in 2003. . The 202 yards were the fewest allowed by UNC against an ACC opponents since giving up 198 to Boston College in 2009.
“The bottom line is they had a convincing win over us,” Syracuse Orange coach Dino Babers said.
UNC: The Tar Heels have enjoyed a lot of preseason hype. But UNC gave Coach Mack Brown, a College Football Hall of Fame member, plenty to address going forward with three turnovers and nine penalties for 91 yards.
“We were killing drives with one play, one mistake,” QB Sam Howell said.
CHAPEL HILL NC — Javonte Williams ran for three fourth-quarter touchdowns and No. 18 North Carolina overcame a mistake-filled performance to beat Syracuse 31-6 on Saturday in the season opener for both teams.
Michael Carter added 138 yards of total offense for the Tar Heels (1-0, 1-0 Atlantic Coast Conference), who won in an empty Kenan Memorial Stadium after the school opted to open with no fans in attendance due to the coronavirus pandemic…
“I’m so happy for the team, coaches and the fans,” UNC Tar Heels Coach Mack Brown told Jones Angell on the Tar Heel Sports Network after the game. “In our past couple of years, we’ve lost so many games like this in the fourth quarter, and oh my gosh, we tried. But these kids overcame it. They kept competing and fighting.”
“I didn’t like getting behind,” Brown said. “But I thought it was the coolest thing that you had confidence, the ability and the discipline to come back and beat somebody late in a game. I’ve missed that. And I look forward to that.”
One 👣🏈 game is all his new team needed to deliver.
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“Think of a person in your life that pushed you further than you could have ever taken yourself,” UNC offensive coordinator Phil Longo said. “To the very edge, through discipline, exertion, exhaustion and pain, and then your response was to to thank and respect him for it. That is Brian Hess.”
Brown has a 244-122-1 overall record in 30 seasons as a head coach, and stands 10th on the all-time wins list. He is second in all-time wins at both Carolina and Texas.
He’s coached 37 first-team All-Americas (seven at Carolina), six Academic All-Americas (one Tar Heel), 110 first-team all-conference selections (34 at Carolina), 11 conference players of the year (one Tar Heel) and two College Football Hall of Famers in Dré Bly (Carolina) and Heisman Trophy winner Ricky Williams (Texas).
Brown has wins in the Rose, Cotton, Fiesta, Gator, Holiday, Peach, Alamo and Carquest Bowls.
The NFL selected 108 of his players in the NFL Draft, including 22 first-round picks (six Tar Heels and 16 Longhorns).
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North Carolina Tar Heels Football: The story of the UNC Tar Heels’ season has been how frequently they found ways to lose close games, from the three-point home loss against Virginia Tech to the double-OT loss at Syracuse. So it’s only fitting that their season (and the end of the Fedora Era) would end in similar fashion.
North Carolina Tar Heels Football: Near the end of a second consecutive rough season, the Tar Heels took out some frustration. North Carolina improved to 8-0 under Fedora against teams from the Football Championship Subdivision, winning those games by an average of almost 37 points per game.
