University of North Carolina Athletics
Regular Season Finale Versus Duke
November 30, 2013 | Football
CHAPEL HILL --- Looking to extend its current five game win streak, Carolina faces No. 24 Duke on Saturday, Nov. 30, in what may be the most meaningful UNC-Duke football game in nearly two decades. The 100th meeting between the two institutions will be televised on ESPN2 at noon. It is the Tar Heels' ninth game at either noon or 12:30 p.m. this season. Carolina enters the game 6-5 overall and 4-3 in the ACC. Duke is 9-2 overall and 5-2 in league action.
Carolina is just the sixth team since the regular season expanded to 12 games in 2006 to start the season 1-5 and make a bowl game. Only one - Rutgers in 2008 - came from a BCS conference. The turnaround is similar to the 2001 season when UNC opened with three losses, but rebounded to win five straight and make a bowl game.
Carolina is just the sixth team since the regular season expanded to 12 games in 2006 to start the season 1-5 and make a bowl game. Only one - Rutgers in 2008 - came from a BCS conference. The turnaround is similar to the 2001 season when UNC opened with three losses, but rebounded to win five straight and make a bowl game.
AT A GLANCE
Records: North Carolina 6-5 (4-3 ACC), Duke 9-2 (5-2 ACC)
Rankings: Duke is ranked No. 24 in both the AP poll and the USA Today Coaches' Poll. Carolina is unranked.
TV: ESPN2. Beth Mowins (play-by-play), Joey Galloway (analyst) and Paul Carcaterra (sideline) have the call.
Radio: Tar Heel Sports Network, a division of Learfield Communications. Jones Angell (play-by-play), Ethan Albright (analyst) and Lee Pace (sideline) have the call. A link to the live stream can be found at GoHeels.com.
On The Web: GoHeels.com • Twitter: @TarHeelFootball, @CoachFedora
Tickets: GoHeels.com
QUICK HITS
• More than 10,000 North Carolina elementary school kids and their familes will be in attendance at the sold out Duke game as part of the athletic department's Academic All-Stars program.
• Of Carolina's 47 total touchdowns this season, 39 have been scored by freshmen or sophomores, including the last 23 in a row.
• Carolina is looking to extend its current win streak to six games Saturday. The last time Carolina won six in a row came in 1997 when the Tar Heels won the first eight games of the year. Carolina has not closed out a regular season with six consecutive wins since 1972 (won last seven of the regular season and the bowl game).
• DE Kareem Martin ranks fourth in the country in tackles for loss and fifth in the nation in sacks. Through 11 games, he has posted 19.0 tackles for loss and 11.0 sacks. He is just five shy of Julius Peppers' single-season school record of 24 TFL in 2000.
• QB Marquise Williams has been responsible for 18 touchdowns this year - 13 passing, four rushing and one receiving. Williams tossed a school-record tying five TD passes last week vs. ODU.
• Ebron has 774 yards receiving and is 97 yards shy of the ACC single-season record for receiving yards by a tight end, set by Maryland's Vernon Davis with 871 in 2005. Ebron has 50 catches and needs just five more to move into second place on the ACC single-season chart for catches by a tight end.
• Freshman Ryan Switzer has tied the single-season ACC record with four punt return touchdowns. All four have come in the last three games vs. Virginia, Pitt (2) and ODU. The NCAA single-season record is five by Chad Owens of Hawaii in 2004. Switzer has also tied the NCAA record for consecutive games with a punt return touchdown at three.
• Carolina is second in the country in punt returns with a 17.54 average. Carolina is the only school in the country with four punt returns for touchdowns.
• Carolina is limiting opponents to 3.4 yards per punt return, which ranks 10th in the country. The Tar Heels have allowed just 55 total punt return yards, 23 of which came on one return by NC State.
• Fourteen different Tar Heels have scored at least one touchdown this season. Nine of those 14 are either freshmen or sophomores (five are true freshmen).
• WR Quinshad Davis has already caught 106 passes in his first two seasons. Only Hakeem Hicks (113) caught more in his first two seasons as a Tar Heel.
• Of Carolina's 47 total touchdowns this season, 39 have been scored by freshmen or sophomores, including the last 23 in a row.
• Carolina is looking to extend its current win streak to six games Saturday. The last time Carolina won six in a row came in 1997 when the Tar Heels won the first eight games of the year. Carolina has not closed out a regular season with six consecutive wins since 1972 (won last seven of the regular season and the bowl game).
• DE Kareem Martin ranks fourth in the country in tackles for loss and fifth in the nation in sacks. Through 11 games, he has posted 19.0 tackles for loss and 11.0 sacks. He is just five shy of Julius Peppers' single-season school record of 24 TFL in 2000.
• QB Marquise Williams has been responsible for 18 touchdowns this year - 13 passing, four rushing and one receiving. Williams tossed a school-record tying five TD passes last week vs. ODU.
• Ebron has 774 yards receiving and is 97 yards shy of the ACC single-season record for receiving yards by a tight end, set by Maryland's Vernon Davis with 871 in 2005. Ebron has 50 catches and needs just five more to move into second place on the ACC single-season chart for catches by a tight end.
• Freshman Ryan Switzer has tied the single-season ACC record with four punt return touchdowns. All four have come in the last three games vs. Virginia, Pitt (2) and ODU. The NCAA single-season record is five by Chad Owens of Hawaii in 2004. Switzer has also tied the NCAA record for consecutive games with a punt return touchdown at three.
• Carolina is second in the country in punt returns with a 17.54 average. Carolina is the only school in the country with four punt returns for touchdowns.
• Carolina is limiting opponents to 3.4 yards per punt return, which ranks 10th in the country. The Tar Heels have allowed just 55 total punt return yards, 23 of which came on one return by NC State.
• Fourteen different Tar Heels have scored at least one touchdown this season. Nine of those 14 are either freshmen or sophomores (five are true freshmen).
• WR Quinshad Davis has already caught 106 passes in his first two seasons. Only Hakeem Hicks (113) caught more in his first two seasons as a Tar Heel.
Coastal Division Implications
The Coastal Division champion is still up for grabs entering Saturday's game. If Duke wins, the Blue Devils will win the Coastal outright and secure a spot in the ACC Championship game on Dec. 7. If Carolina wins, the Tar Heels will earn a share of the division title for the second straight season with a 5-3 record. Regardless of the outcome, Duke will finish no worse than a tie for the Coastal Division and the possibility exists for a five-way tie between Carolina, Duke, Georgia Tech, Miami and Virginia Tech.
Georgia Tech has already completed its league schedule with a 5-3 record. Miami needs a win at Pitt and Virginia Tech must get past Virginia to also improve to 5-3.
The Coastal Division champion is still up for grabs entering Saturday's game. If Duke wins, the Blue Devils will win the Coastal outright and secure a spot in the ACC Championship game on Dec. 7. If Carolina wins, the Tar Heels will earn a share of the division title for the second straight season with a 5-3 record. Regardless of the outcome, Duke will finish no worse than a tie for the Coastal Division and the possibility exists for a five-way tie between Carolina, Duke, Georgia Tech, Miami and Virginia Tech.
Georgia Tech has already completed its league schedule with a 5-3 record. Miami needs a win at Pitt and Virginia Tech must get past Virginia to also improve to 5-3.
A Look At Last Week
• Carolina scored a school record 80 points and became bowl eligible with an 80-20 win over ODU. It was the Tar Heels' fifth straight victory, matching the team's longest win streak since 2001. The Tar Heels scored a school record 11 touchdowns and scored in a variety of ways - a punt return for a touchdown, a kickoff return for a touchdown, three rushing touchdowns and five passing touchdowns, including a flea-flicker for the first score of the game. Sophomore quarterback Marquise Williams completed 20 of 27 attempts for 409 yards and five touchdowns.
Duke won at Wake Forest, 28-21, rallying from an early 14-0 deficit. Quarterback Anthony Boone threw for 256 yards and three touchdowns and also led the Blue Devils with 57 yards rushing.
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