University of North Carolina Athletics
Postgame Notes - Wake Forest
October 19, 2015 | Football
North Carolina 50, Wake Forest 14
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Kenan Stadium, Chapel Hill, N.C.
• Carolina is now 5-1 overall and 2-0 in ACC play. The Tar Heels are 2-0 in conference play for the first time since 1997 and 5-1 overall for the first time since 2011.
• The 36-point victory was the biggest ACC win by the Tar Heels since a 38-point win over Duke in 2000.
• Larry Fedora is now 60-37 as a head coach, including 26-18 in four seasons at UNC.
• The 50 points are the most by UNC vs. Wake Forest since a 50-0 Tar Heel victory in 1994. It's only the second time since 1928 that UNC has scored 50 points against the Deacons.
• Senior QB Marquise Williams completed 14 of 20 pass attempts for 282 yards, three touchdowns and two interceptions. All three touchdowns passes were thrown to WR Mack Hollins – a 57-yarder in the second quarter, a 4-yarder in the third quarter and a 42-yarder in the fourth quarter.
• Williams also had a 13-yard rushing touchdown run. He ranks eighth in school history with 27 career rushing touchdowns. He extended his own UNC record for rushing touchdowns by a quarterback.
• Williams is responsible for 76 career touchdowns, which is three shy of Darian Durant's school-record 79.
• Sophomore RB Elijah Hood rushed for 101 yards on eight carries – he averaged 12.6 yards per carry. Hood has three 100-yard rushing games as a Tar Heel, all this season.
• Tonight was the 18th time in UNC history a player rushed for 100 yards (Hood 101), a player passed for 200 yards (Williams 282) and another player had 100 yards receiving (Hollins 103). UNC has accomplished that in each of the last six seasons and nine times since 2008 after not having done from 1995-2007.
• Tonight was the 37th time a Tar Heel has rushed for 100 yards against Wake Forest, tying Virginia for the second-most times a UNC player has rushed for 100 yards against an opponent (UNC has 41 100-yard games against Duke).
• Mack Hollins is the first Tar Heel with three touchdown catches in a game since Dwight Jones had three against Duke in 2011.
• Carolina scored seven touchdowns – four on drives of less than one minute and six of the seven on drives under two minutes. UNC's longest scoring drive of the game was for 2:37.
• Twenty of North Carolina's 30 touchdown drives this season have taken two minutes or less. All first-half drives took less than two minutes (0:52, 1:36, 0:21, 1:47). Two of the three in the second half took less than two minutes.
• Carolina's first three touchdown drives combined lasted 11 plays, 174 yards and took just 2:49 off the clock.
• Carolina converted its second 2-point conversion of the season when holder Joey Mangili hit tight end Brandon Fritts for the score in the second quarter.
• WR Austin Proehl, whose dad played at Wake Forest, had two receptions for 94 yards, including a career-long 61-yarder that set up a UNC touchdown.
• DE Junior Gnonkonde recorded two sacks, both coming in a span of three plays in the third quarter. That matched the total number of sacks the Tar Heels had this season prior to that drive.
• Carolina gained 538 total yards, its second-highest total this season (568 vs. Delaware). Wake Forest entered the game 15th in the country in total defense. Prior to tonight, the most yards the Deacons allowed this season was 416 by Indiana.
• Carolina gained 10 or more yards on 20 of its 59 plays from scrimmage. Those 20 plays gained 413 of UNC's 538 total yards.
• Freshman punter Hunter Lent punted three times for an average of 50.0 yards per kick. None of the three punts were returned. UNC has not allowed a punt return in any of its six games this season. UNC is the only team in the country that has not allowed a punt return this year.
• WR Quinshad Davis had three receptions tonight and has 174 in his career. He is seven behind UNC's all-time leader Hakeem Nicks and three shy of Jarwarski Pollock.
• Carolina came into the game ranked seventh in the nation in third-down conversions and was 5 for 10 this evening.
• The Tar Heels lead the series vs. Wake Forest, 69-35-2, including a 42-18-2 mark in Chapel Hill.
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