University of North Carolina Athletics
Postgame Notes - Pitt
November 15, 2014 | Football
Postgame Notes • Nov. 15, 2014
Carolina 40, Pitt 35
• With today's win, the Tar Heels even their records this year at 5-5 overall and 3-3 in the ACC. Carolina is 4-1 at home with one home contest remaining against NC State.
• Carolina leads the series against Pitt, 6-3. This was the seventh time in nine meetings that the game was decided by 10 points or less.
• Sophomore tailback T.J. Logan rushed for a season-high 92 yards on 18 carries, including the game-winning 1-yard run with 50 seconds to play. Logan's previous rushing high this year was 75 yards against Georgia Tech. The touchdown was his second rushing score this year (other was against Georgia Tech).
• Today marked the second consecutive home game in which T.J. Logan scored the game-winning touchdown with less than one minute to play. On October 18th, Logan scored from two yards with 11 seconds to play to give UNC a 48-43 win over Georgia Tech.
• Logan had a career-high 18 carries (his previous was 16 as a freshman against Duke and Miami). His previous high this year was 14 vs. Georgia Tech.
• QB Marquise Williams completed 23 of 40 attempts for 276 yards and one touchdown. He also rushed 19 times for 122 yards and three touchdowns. Today was the first time in his career that Williams rushed for three touchdowns in a game. It was his second 100-yard rushing game this season and the third of his career.
• Williams completed a school-record 16 consecutive passes at one stretch. The previous single-game mark of 15 was set last year by Bryn Renner vs. Miami. Williams completed just four of his first 16 attempts for 31 yards. He was 19 of 24 for 245 yards during the remainder of the game.
• Williams scored on runs of 23 yards, 2 yards and 45 yards. He extended his UNC career record for rushing touchdowns by a quarterback to 19. He has a team-best 10 rushing touchdowns this season.
• Williams is the first Tar Heel to score three times in a game this year. The last Tar Heel to do that was T.J. Logan last season against Old Dominion.
• This was the fifth time in 10 games this season that Williams led the Tar Heels in rushing. He also led UNC against San Diego State, Virginia Tech, Notre Dame and Virginia.
• Williams set a UNC single-season record today for most rushing yards by a quarterback. This year, Williams has rushed 141 times for 628 yards. The previous record by a UNC quarterback was 541 by Jim Lalanne in 1940. Williams has at least two more games this season to extend that mark.
• Williams compiled 398 yards of total offense. He has 3,125 yards of total offense this season, the third-most in UNC history (moved past Bryn Renner's 2,998 in 2011 and Darian Durant's 2,947 in 2003). Williams has 5,672 career total offense yards, fifth-most in UNC history. He moved past Jason Stanicek (5,497) today.
• Williams rushed for three scores and threw for one touchdown today, giving him 53 career touchdowns for which he is responsible. That ties him with Charlie Justice for the third most in UNC history. Darian Durant (79) and Bryn Renner (68) are the only two Tar Heels with more.
• Williams is now alone in fifth place in UNC history with 34 career touchdown passes.
• Carolina's six touchdown drives averaged 79.2 yards. The Tar Heels scored on touchdown drives of 72, 80, 75, 92, 81 and 75 yards. The two teams combined for 11 touchdown drives and the shortest drive by yards was a two-play, 51-yard drive by Pitt. Eight of the 11 combined TD drives went for 75 or more yards.
• Ryan Switzer had a 63-yard scoring catch-and-run in the third quarter. It was his fourth scoring reception of the season. Switzer now has three of the Tar Heels' longest scoring receptions this year. He had a 75-yarder at Clemson and a 68-yarder vs. Georgia Tech.
• Walk-on tailback Charles Brunson scored on a 17-yard run in the third quarter. It was Brunson's second touchdown of the season. He entered today's game with nine carries for 54 yards, all of which came in the second half in the season opener vs. Liberty.
• Carolina's final scoring drive of the first half was an 18-play, 80-yard drive that consumed 6:06 on the clock. It was the Tar Heels' longest drive of the season both in plays and time of possession.
• Carolina rushed for a season-high 226 yards. Its previous high this year was 208 vs. Liberty. The Tar Heels had rushed for just 105 combined yards in their previous two games combined (99 at Virginia and six at Miami).
• Linebacker Cayson Collins made his first career start today in place of Travis Hughes, who was suspended for a violation of team policy. Collins led the Tar Heels with nine tackles.
• Junior ram Malik Simmons forced the only turnover of the game, a fumble by Pitt quarterback Chad Voytik at midfield with less than 30 seconds to play in the fourth quarter and UNC holding a 40-35 lead. Shakeel Rashad recovered the fumble to clinch the victory for the Tar Heels.
• Carolina entered today's game ninth in the country in red zone efficiency and scored touchdowns on all three of its red zone chances today.
• Carolina had 30 of the game's 53 first downs. This is the third time this season UNC has amassed at least 30 first downs in a game (31 against Georgia Tech and 30 at Notre Dame).
• Today marked the first time this season the Tar Heels did not have a turnover.
• Carolina gained 502 yards of total offense, the third time in the last five games that UNC gained at least 500 yards (579 vs. Georgia Tech and 521 vs. Notre Dame). In all three of those games, both teams gained at least 500 yards.
• Pitt's James Conner rushed 30 times for 220 yards and four touchdowns. He is the 11th player in history to rush for 200 yards against Carolina as he gained the fifth-most rushing yards by an opponent. It was the most rushing yards by an opposing player since Virginia Tech's Mike Imoh gained 243 yards (most ever by an opponent) in 2004.
• Carolina converted 9 of 16 on third down and 2 for 2 on fourth down; Pitt converted 6 of 12 on third down and 1 of 1 on fourth down.
• Pitt out-gained the Tar Heels by 187 yards in the first quarter and by 122 yards through the first half, but finished with just 21 more yards by the end of the game.
