Postgame Notes

October 26, 2013 | Football

By: UNC Athletic Communications

North Carolina Postgame Notes
Oct. 26, 2013

UNC 34, Boston College 10

• Carolina is now 2-5 overall and 1-3 in the ACC. The Tar Heels scored 28 unanswered points after the Eagles took a 7-6 lead midway through the first quarter.

• The 10 points are the fewest allowed by the Tar Heels since a 66-0 win over Idaho on Sept. 29, 2012. It is the lowest scoring output by an ACC opponent since a 44-10 win at Virginia on Oct. 16, 2010.

• Carolina converted 8 of 16 on third down and held the Eagles to 5 of 16 on third down and 0 for 1 on fourth down.

• Boston College did not run an offensive play inside the UNC 35-yard line until the Eagles' final four snaps of the game. The Eagles began that drive on the UNC 39-yard line after a punt and penalty.

• BC ran 13 plays (including one punt) on Carolina's side of midfield, including seven on the final series of the game that began with 4:52 to play and UNC leading 34-7. By comparison, the Tar Heels ran 37 plays (including three punts) on BC's side of midfield.

• Carolina did not commit a turnover for the first time this season and the first time since the East Carolina game in 2012.

• Carolina's defense allowed just 59 passing yards, the fewest by an opponent since Clemson threw for 37 yards in a UNC win in Death Valley on Nov. 15, 1997. The previous low passing yardage figure this year was 104 by Georgia Tech.

• Carolina quarterbacks completed a combined 22 of 29 for 282 yards, three touchdowns and no interceptions.

• Nine different Tar Heels had catches (seven had at least two). The Tar Heel defense allowed just three BC players to catch passes (Alex Amidon had eight of BC's 11 receptions).

• QB Bryn Renner completed 18 of 21 passes for 227 yards and two touchdowns. Renner now has 64 career touchdown passes, four shy of UNC's all-time mark of 68 set by Darian Durant from 2001-04.

• Renner's completion percentage of .857 (18 for 21) is the second-highest of his career. He was 22 for 23 (.957) in his first start in 2011 against James Madison.

• Renner now has 8,097 career passing yards, good for 21st all-time in the ACC. He joins Durant and T.J. Yates as the only Tar Heel quarterbacks to throw for 8,000 yards, achieving the milestone on a 35-yard pass to T.J. Logan in the second quarter. Renner passed Wake Forest's Brian Kuklick and Duke's Steve Slayden in today's game.

• QB Marquise Williams rushed seven times for a team-high 55 yards and a touchdown, making it the second time this year he has been the Tar Heels' leading rusher. He also completed 4 of 8 passes for 55 yards and a touchdown, his fifth of the season.

• TB A.J. Blue rushed eight times for 25 yards and his first touchdown of the season. Blue had 11 career touchdowns entering the season, including 10 last year when he combined with Giovani Bernard (19) for a school-record 29 touchdowns (most for a pair of teammates).

• TE Eric Ebron caught four passes for 67 yards, and now has 599 receiving yards this year. He is just 26 yards shy of matching his own school record for single-season receiving yards by a tight end of 625, set in 2012. Ebron is also just five catches behind his school-record mark of 40 from a season ago.

• Ebron also had two carries for seven yards. Those are the first rushing attempts of his collegiate career.

• WR Bug Howard caught three passes for 31 yards and a pair of touchdowns. The true freshman now has four touchdowns on the season, one behind Quinshad Davis for the team lead.

• Freshman WR Ryan Switzer had his first collegiate touchdown catch, a 13-yard scoring strike from Bryn Renner.

• Freshman LB Mikey Bart made his first start and had three tackles, including a 9-yard sack on a 4th-down try by the Eagles.

• OT James Hurst made his 43rd career start on Saturday, most among Tar Heel players. DE Kareem Martin (35 starts), S Tre Boston (34) and QB Bryn Renner (31) are also over 30 career starts.

• P Tommy Hibbard had a 76-yard punt in the first quarter, the sixth-longest punt in school history. The punt was the longest by a Tar Heel since Scott McAlister's 83-yarder at Georgia Tech in 1989.

• PK Thomas Moore kicked two extra points and is now 67 for 67 in his career. However, a bad snap from center led to a team miss on UNC's first PAT attempt, ending a streak of 191 consecutive made extra points by the Tar Heels.