University of North Carolina Athletics
No. 17 Tar Heels Host Miami On Senior Day
November 13, 2015 | Football
CHAPEL HILL --- Looking to complete a perfect home season, No. 17 North Carolina welcomes Miami to Chapel Hill for a Coastal Division battle at Kenan Stadium on Saturday, Nov. 14. It is Senior Day for the Tar Heels, who are looking to go 7-0 at home for the first time since 1980.
Carolina has won eight in a row and is 8-1 overall and 5-0 in league play. Miami is 6-3 overall and 3-2 in the Coastal.
The Tar Heels won in convincing fashion last week against rival Duke, scoring 38 first-half points and rolling to a 66-31 win. Quarterback Marquise Williams set a school record with 524 total yards of offense and accomplished that in less than three quarters. The 524 yards are the sixth-most in ACC single-game history. Williams was responsible for five touchdowns and has been responsible for a school-record 83 career touchdowns. He also set the school record with 494 passing yards against the Blue Devils.
The Tar Heels will honor 26 seniors prior to kickoff, including significant contributors Quinshad Davis, Romar Morris, Jessie Rogers, Jeff Schoettmer, Shakeel Rashad, Sam Smiley, Malik Simmons, Kendrick Singleton, Justin Thomason, Landon Turner, Damien Washington and Marquise Williams.
AT A GLANCE
Records: North Carolina 8-1 (5-0 ACC), Miami 6-3 (3-2 ACC)
Rankings: Carolina is ranked No. 17 in both the AP and coaches polls. Miami is unranked.
TV: ESPNU. Clay Matvick (play-by-play), John Congemi (analyst) and Mark Morgan (sideline) have the call.
Radio: Tar Heel Sports Network (click to listen), a division of Learfield Communications. Jones Angell (play-by-play), Ethan Albright (analyst) and Lee Pace (sideline) have the call.
On The Web: GoHeels.com | UNC Notes | HurricaneSports.com | Miami Notes
Twitter: @TarHeelFootball, @CoachFedora | @CanesFootball
Fan Information: Tickets | Parking Information
QUICK HITS
• Carolina's eight-game win streak is tied for the sixth-longest current streak in the country.
• Marquise Williams is just the fifth quarterback in ACC history with 2,000 career rushing yards. Williams ranks 13th in UNC history with 2,068 yards.
• Williams has been responsible for a school-record 83 career touchdowns, which ranks tied for fourth in ACC history. Williams has rushed for 28 scores (UNC record for QB), passed for 52 and has three receiving TDs.
• Tailback Elijah Hood has 11 rushing touchdowns, which ranks second in the league. He is fourth in the ACC with 90.3 rushing yards per game.
• Carolina leads the ACC and ranks 20th in the country in passes defended (39 pass breakups, 11 INTs).
• Cornerback M.J. Stewart leads the ACC in passes defended with 13 (10 pass breakups, 3 INTs).
• Carolina is the only school in the country that has not allowed a conventional punt return this season. A blocked punt at Pitt is the only statistical punt return allowed by the Tar Heels.
• Eleven current Tar Heels have made 20-or-more career starts. Quinshad Davis leads the way with 42, followed by OG Landon Turner (37), OT Jon Heck (33), LB Jeff Schoettmer (33) and OG Caleb Peterson (32).
• North Carolina is 10 for 10 in non-quarterback passes under Larry Fedora. WR Quinshad Davis has completed all four pass attempts of his career for touchdowns. He is 4 of 4 for 121 yards and four touchdowns for a passer rating of 684.1. WR Ryan Switzer has completed all three of his attempts for two touchdowns.
• Carolina ranks tied for third in the country in passing yards allowed, 10th in pass eff. defense and 22nd in scoring defense. UNC is allowing just 158.8 passing yards per game and 18.6 points.
• Carolina is 12th in the nation in scoring offense (40.1) and is one of just 10 teams in the country averaging more than 200 yards per game rushing (205.3) and 250 passing (290.6).
• Preseason first-team All-America guard Landon Turner will make his 38th career start Saturday against Miami. Turner has graded out at 90 percent or higher in seven of nine games this season.
• Last season, North Carolina made just six field goals and none longer than 30 yards. This season, kicker Nick Weiler has made 15 of 17 attempts, including four from 46 yards-or-longer.
CAROLINA-MIAMI SERIES NOTES
• Carolina and Miami are meeting for the 19th time overall and the 12th consecutive season.
• The teams have split the last eight meetings, but the Tar Heels have dropped four of the last five. UNC's four most recent wins in the series have been decided by 10 points or less, including a 33-27 victory in 2007, a 28-24 win in 2008, a 33-24 win in 2009 and an 18-14 win in 2012.
• In the most recent meeting in Chapel Hill, Miami drove 90 yards and scored on a 3-yard touchdown run by Dallas Crawford with 16 seconds remaining to take a 27-23 victory in a Thursday night game. TE Eric Ebron had eight catches for 199 yards, including a 71-yard touchdown.
• Carolina's first game against Miami as ACC members came in 2004 and was a memorable win for the Tar Heels. Connor Barth connected on a 42-yard field goal as time expired to beat the fourth-ranked Hurricanes, 31-28. It is still the highest-ranked team Carolina has ever beaten and is the Tar Heels' only win over a team ranked in the Associated Press top five.
• The first meeting between the two institutions came in 1946, when Carl Snavely's Tar Heels knocked off Miami, 21-0, in the second game of the year. Carolina would go on to finish 8-2-1 and play Georgia in the Sugar Bowl. It was one of only two losses that season for the Hurricanes.
• North Carolina has 12 scholarship players from the state of Florida: freshman tight end Jake Bargas (Boca Raton), junior center Lucas Crowley (Ponte Vedra), junior offensive tackle Jon Heck (Jacksonville), junior linebacker Joe Jackson (Jacksonville), senior cornerback T.J. Jiles (Cape Coral), senior linebacker Shakeel Rashad (Jacksonville), senior cornerback Malik Simmons (Lehigh Acres), senior tight end Kendrick Singleton (Macclenny), senior defensive back Sam Smiley (Jacksonville), freshman linebacker Andre Smith (Jacksonville), freshman defensive lineman Jason Strowbridge (Deerfield Beach) and freshman offensive tackle William Sweet (Jacksonville).
