North Carolina vs. NC State Free Pick
We lost to Miami bad [last year], came and took care of business. “And if we get stops and we get the ball back to our offense, we’re a pretty good team”.
He threw for 1,698 yards and 15 touchdowns in 2013, 3,068 yards and 21 touchdowns in 2014 and came into this afternoon’s game with 2,431 passing yards and 17 touchdowns under his belt. With a national picture coming into focus and Carolina clearly on a national roll, all the Heels needed Saturday was to finish what they started.
Will North Carolina be able to pull off the road win here or will NC State defeat them on Saturday?
UNC completed its second goal thanks to its dominant first quarter and thanks in no small part to Hood, who at times ran through holes so wide he could pick which direction he wanted to take up the field.
“We weren’t setting edges, we weren’t tackling, doing the things that we’ve done and (UNC) ran the ball extremely effectively”, Doeren continued.
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“They ran some plays that they haven’t run in a long time”, defensive end Mike Rose said.
North Carolina is ranked number fourteen in the nation thanks a 10-1 record which includes an active ten game winning streak. He had more than one-third of those (89 yards) in the first quarter. After forcing a State punt, the Heels went 91 yards in 5 plays, capped by a 42-yard touchdown run by Logan for a 14-0 lead.
Fedora has explained that he began each team meeting this year by stating two goals.
Marquise Williams is one of the most dynamic quarterbacks in college football, and he proved that today against N.C. State-as if there were any doubts. That was the score at the end of the first quarter in North Carolina’s favor Saturday.
“We got down there two times, we got two field goals where I’ve just got to do a better job of getting us in the endzone”, quarterback Jacoby Brissett said.
By the start of the fourth quarter, after a 3-yard scoring run from Brissett, NC State had shrunk the UNC lead to 35-23.
“Our thing was, [NC State] thought we were the same team as a year ago”, Williams 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”. There was a scoreless second quarter a week earlier at Virginia Tech.
“No one talked about it”, he said.
Well, let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves.
And as for that “methodical”, game plan, “Time ran out”, Fernandez said.