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North Carolina

Wake Forest

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November 10, 2022 | Football

Game 10
#15/#14 North Carolina (8-1, 5-0) at Wake Forest (6-3, 2-3)
Winston-Salem, N.C. • Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022 • 7:30 p.m. ET
Truist Field at Wake Forest (31,500) • ESPN2

Carolina Football Media Center

Series vs. WF: NC leads 71-36-2
Series Streak: NC won last two games
Last Meeting at WF: 2019 (L, 18-24)
Last UNC Win: 2021 (W, 58-55)

NORTH CAROLINA
Record: 8-1 (5-0 ACC)
Head Coach: Mack Brown (Florida State, '74)
Overall Record: 273-140-1, 34th year
Record at UNC: 98-64-1, 14th year

WAKE FOREST
Record: 6-3 (2-3 ACC)
Head Coach: Dave Clawson (Williams, '89)
Overall Record: 147-130, 23rd year
Record at Wake Forest: 57-50, 9th year

BROADCAST INFO
Kickoff: 7:30 p.m. ET
ESPN2: Clay Matvick, play-by-play; Rocky Boiman, analyst; Dawn Davenport, sideline
Tar Heel Sports Network: Jones Angell, play-by-play; Brian Simmons, analyst; Lee Pace, sideline
Satellite Radio: SiriusXM (81), App (81)
Website: A live radio broadcast of the Tar Heel Sports Network is available on UNC's official athletic website, GoHeels.com, as well as through the Varsity Network app.

TAR HEELS AND DEMON DEACONS
• North Carolina and Wake Forest face each other on the football field for the 110th time and the fourth year in a row.
• UNC and Wake have combined to average 112.5 points in the last two meetings. Carolina came away with a 59-53 win in 2020 and a 58-55 W in '21.
• The Tar Heels are 20-15 all-time on the road against Wake Forest, but have dropped the last three occurrences in 2007, 2012 and 2019.
• Carolina last won in Winston-Salem, 31-24, in 2004.
• The two in-state rivals played non-conference games in 2019 and 2021 with the teams winning their respective home games.
• Carolina's 71 wins against Wake Forest are the most over any single opponent in program history.
• Last season the teams combined for 1,161 yards of offense with Wake's 615 the second most ever surrendered by the Tar Heels.
• Ty Chandler had 213 of UNC's 330 rushing yards and four of Carolina's six rushing TDs.
• UNC trailed 48-34 with 1:01 left in third quarter, but outscored the Demon Deacons 24-7 in the fourth quarter to prevail, 58-55.
• The two met every season between 1919 and 2004 (minus 1943) until ACC expansion took hold in the mid-2000's.

LAST TIME OUT
• Drake Maye threw for two touchdowns and ran for another to outscore Virginia 21-7 after halftime to rally for a 31-28 victory Saturday.
• Elijah Green scored twice and Josh Downs caught 15 passes, including a touchdown, for the Tar Heels, who are now 5-0 in league play for the first time since 2015, when they qualified for their lone appearance in the ACC championship.

BROWN VS. WAKE FOREST
• Mack Brown is 11-3 all-time against Wake Forest and 10-3 as the head coach of the Tar Heels.
• He lost his first two games with UNC in 1988 and 1989, before Brown's men ran off the next eight from 1990-97. He fell to the Deacs 24-17 in 2019 and then earned high-scoring victories in 2020 and 2021.
• Brown defeated Wake, 27-25, in his first game as head coach at the helm of Appalachian State in 1983. The game was played in Winston-Salem.

CAROLINA IN THE POLLS
• Carolina has moved up to No. 15 in the Associated Press Poll and No. 14 in the Coaches Poll this week. The Tar Heels also moved up two places to No. 15 in the College Football Playoff Rankings.

UP NEXT
• Carolina hosts Georgia Tech on Saturday, Nov. 19 at 5:30 p.m. on ESPN2.