University of North Carolina Athletics
No. 12 Tar Heels Head To Blacksburg Saturday
November 20, 2015 | Football
BLACKSBURG --- No. 12 North Carolina travels to Blacksburg for a Coastal Division matchup with Virginia Tech on Saturday, Nov. 21 at noon. With a win over the Hokies or a Pitt loss vs. Louisville, the Tar Heels would win the Coastal Division and earn a spot in the ACC Championship Game vs. No. 1 Clemson.
AT A GLANCE
Records: North Carolina 9-1 (6-0 ACC), Virginia Tech 5-5 (3-3 ACC)
Rankings: Carolina is ranked No. 12 in both the AP and coaches polls. Virginia Tech is unranked.
TV: ESPN. Adam Amin (play-by-play), Kelly Stouffer (analyst) and Olivia Harlan (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 | HokieSports.com
Twitter: @TarHeelFootball, @CoachFedora | @VTFootball
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QUICK HITS
• Carolina's nine-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 12th in UNC history with 2,169 yards. He is fourth all-time at UNC with 31 rushing scores.
• Williams has been responsible for a school-record 87 career touchdowns, which ranks tied for fourth in ACC history. Williams has rushed for 31 scores (UNC record for QB), passed for 53 and has three receiving TDs.
• Williams is just 346 yards shy of Darian Durant's school record for total offense.
• Tailback Elijah Hood has 12 rushing touchdowns, which ranks second in the league. He is fourth in the ACC with 94.5 rushing yards per game. He is just 55 yards shy of 1,000 yards.
• Carolina leads the ACC and ranks 12th in the country in passes defended (47 pass breakups, 12 INTs).
• Cornerbacks M.J. Stewart and Des Lawrence lead the ACC in pass breakups. Stewart leads the ACC in passes defended (12 PBUs, 3 INTs).
• Eleven current Tar Heels have made 20-or-more career starts. Quinshad Davis leads the way with 43, followed by OG Landon Turner (38), OT Jon Heck (34), LB Jeff Schoettmer (34) and OG Caleb Peterson (33).
• Carolina ranks 11th in the country in passing yards allowed, 13th in pass eff. defense and 21st in scoring defense.
• Carolina is ninth in the nation in scoring offense (42.0) and is one of just 10 teams in the country averaging more than 200 yards per game rushing (214.6) and 250 passing (280.4).
• Preseason first-team All-America guard Landon Turner will make his 39th career start Saturday against Virginia Tech. Turner has graded out at 90 percent or higher in eight of 10 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 16 of 18 attempts, including four from 46 yards-or-longer.
• Weiler has 49 PATs this season and is just one shy of tying the single-season school record.
• Senior wide receiver Quinshad Davis is the all-time leader at UNC in receptions (189) and touchdowns (23). He currently ranks third at UNC in career receiving yards.
CAROLINA-VIRGINIA TECH SERIES NOTES
• This is Carolina and Virginia Tech's 38th overall meeting, and 12th straight since the Hokies joined the ACC.
• Virginia Tech leads the overall series, 20-11-6. Five of the six ties were scoreless. The last tie was a 14-14 score in 1946.
• Three of the last seven meetings have been decided by a field goal. Four of the last eight have been decided by a touchdown or less.
• Carolina and Virginia Tech met at least twice in every decade from the 1890s to the 1940s. The teams met 25 times from 1890-1946 and 14 of those times at least one team did not score.
• Tar Heel great and College Football Hall of Fame member Charlie “Choo-Choo” Justice made his collegiate debut against Virginia Tech in a 14-14 tie on September 28, 1946, in Kenan Stadium.
• Only seven of the first 25 meetings between North Carolina and Virginia Tech were played on one of the two campuses. Six of those seven games were in Chapel Hill. The other 18 were played at neutral sites, including Charlotte, N.C., Danville, Va., Winston-Salem, N.C., Roanoke, Va., Richmond, Va., Raleigh, N.C., and Norfolk, Va.
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