Inside The Numbers: Virginia Game

Inside the Numbers (ITN) is a new feature that can be found exclusively on GoHeels.com each week following a Carolina football game. Here you will find interesting news and numbers focused around the Tar Heels on the gridiron.

PFF PERFORMERS
• According to Pro Football Focus (PFF), Dyami Brown (92.0) and Sam Howell (90.5) graded out as the best Tar Heel players in the game against Virginia.
• Javonte Williams is the No. 1 rated Power 5 running back in the nation at 93.0. He leads the country with 45 avoided tackles, 45 first downs and 25 rushes of 10 or more yards.

Dyami Brown: 240 yards is the most by any power-five WR in a game this season pic.twitter.com/pK0dD2AX2m
— PFF College (@PFF_College) November 1, 2020

STATS LEADERS
• Dyami Brown leads the Atlantic Coast Conference with 641 receiving yards (106.8 yards per game) as we've hit the halfway point of the season. In addition, Brown's six receiving touchdowns tie him for the league lead and is tied for the seventh most in the nation.
• Sam Howell tops the league with 307.7 passing yards per game, and is second in total offense and passing efficiency.
• Carolina leads the ACC with 532.0 yards of total offense per game. The Tar Heels haven't led the league in that statistical category since the 1986 squad put up 436.0 yards per game. In case you were wondering, the school record for a season is 486.9 yards per game in 2015.
• UNC also leads the conference with a 176.8 passing efficiency.

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• Javonte Williams and Clemson's Travis Etienne are the only two running backs in the country that have compiled over 600 rushing yards and over 200 receiving yards this season.

CONSECUTIVE GAMES WITH A TD PASS - ACTIVE PLAYERS
1. Jarret Doege, West Virginia, 22
2. Sam Howell, UNC , 19
2. Dillan Gabriel, UCF, 19
2. Shane Buechele, SMU, 19

TWO-BACK SYSTEM
• Michael Carter and Javonte Williams are the only pair of teammates nationally to average more than 100 yards rushing per game.
• The two have combined to average 210.7 yards on the ground this season. Carter is 15th in the nation with 108.0 yards, while Williams is 19th with 102.7 yards per game.
• Williams' 13 total TDs (11 rush, two receiving) are the second most in the country. He trails Alabama's Najee Harris, who has 14 rushing touchdowns this season.

VETTING THE VIRGINIA GAME
• Carolina had 536 total yards of offense against Virginia, extending a streak to four games with at least that many yards for the first time in at least 50 years, dating back to available records that begin in 1971.
• Sam Howell was 23 of 28 for 443 yards and four passing TDs. The 443 yard are the most in his collegiate career and third most in program history. Howell has six of the top 25 single-game passing totals in Tar Heel history.
• Dyami Brown had a career-high 11 catches for 240 yards and three receiving TDs. He has 442 yards and six TDs over the last two seasons against the Cavaliers.

#PATSTAT

Dyami Brown's 240 receiving yards tonight were the second most in a game in @TarHeelFootball history. Randy Marriott holds the record of 247 against Georgia Tech in 1987.
— Pat James (@patjames24) November 1, 2020

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Players Mentioned

Dyami Brown

Michael Carter

Sam Howell

Javonte Williams

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