Carolina Set For Visit To ECU

CHAPEL HILL - Carolina plays its second road game in as many weeks Saturday when the Tar Heels make the short drive to Greenville to take on in-state foe East Carolina at 3:30 p.m. The two teams have met 17 times overall, including on nine occasions since 2000, but this weekend will mark the first meeting since 2014.

The Tar Heels dropped their season opener last Saturday in Berkeley to Cal, 24-17. UNC held the Golden Bears to 279 total yards and just 3.4 yards per play, but four turnovers and 13 penalties for 124 yards proved to be too much to overcome.

ECU is also 0-1 after falling to North Carolina A&T 28-23 on Sunday in Greenville. The game was postponed a day due to thunderstorms in the area, and the Aggies scored 14 fourth-quarter points to knock off an FBS opponent for the third consecutive year. ECU quarterback Reid Herring passed for 309 yards and two scores to lead the Pirates, who are 6-19 under third-year head coach Scottie Montgomery.

Saturday's game will be broadcast nationally on ESPNU.

AT A GLANCE
Records: North Carolina 0-1 (0-0 ACC), ECU (0-1, 0-0 American)
Rankings: Both teams are unranked.
TV: ESPNU. Mike Corey (play-by-play), Rene Ingoglia (analyst) have the call.
Radio: Tar Heel Sports Network (click to listen), a division of Learfield Communications. Jones Angell (play-by-play), Brian Simmons (analyst) and Lee Pace (sideline) have the call.
On The Web: GoHeels.com | UNC Notes (PDF) | ECU Notes (PDF)
Twitter: @TarHeelFootball, @CoachFedora | @ECUPiratesFB

CAROLINA-ECU SERIES NOTES
• Separated by approximately 100 miles, North Carolina and East Carolina will meet for the 18th time on Saturday. It is just the fifth meeting between the two schools in Greenville and the first since a 70-41 ECU victory in 2014.
• Carolina leads the series 12-4-1.
• Carolina and ECU met eight times in 10 years from 1972-1981, but went 20 years before squaring off again in 2001. Since 2000, the two schools have faced each other nine times - 2001, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.
• Carolina has scored 30 or more points in six of the last seven games with the Pirates.
• UNC head coach Larry Fedora is 3-4 overall against ECU. As head coach at Southern Miss, Fedora posted a 2-2 mark against the Pirates with wins in 2011 (48-28) and 2008 (21-3). Fedora is 1-2 in Greenville with a win in 2011 and losses in 2009 and 2014.
• East Carolina strength and conditioning coach Jeff Connors spent 10 seasons in a similar role at UNC from 2001-10. He returned to ECU, where he worked from 1990-2000, following the 2010 season. ECU's director of operations/player personnel Brian Overton worked three seasons at UNC from 2009-11 as an operations assistant.
• Kelvin Bryant's six rushing touchdowns in a 56-0 victory in 1981 is still a Carolina record.

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