It went from a movie we’ve seen before to a record-breaking hit. The Tar Heels shook off what has become a traditional slow start at Pitt and turned their best three quarters of football this season into Carolina’s first 4-0 record since Mack Brown was 46 in his 10th season at UNC and its first win in the Steel City since 2017 when Drake Maye was in the ninth grade.
Drake Maye returned to form and Nate McCollum returned to football.
That and a defense that gave Minnesota some of its own medicine led the Tar Heels, by far, to playing their best game of the season against a team that may have been their toughest opponent to date.
Hubert Davis is right when he says, “It is what it is.”
He says it a lot and he said it again after Carolina’s hard-fought and frustrating loss to Duke in a Smith Center that was ready to pop Dean’s Dome but, once again, its home team couldn’t make the plays to reward the gallant effort.