North Carolina’s offense has been clicking the last couple of weeks but the Tar Heels still have a ways to go, UNC coach Larry Fedora said. They’ll need to continue to adjust to Fedora’s uptempo offense to defeat Miami, a team that is undefeated in conference play.

“We know that we’ll have our work cut out for us, and we’ll have to play a complete game,” Fedora said.

“I know we’ve had some success in the last couple of weeks, but we’re not even close to our potential,” he added. “You can go back in this last game, and wow. You look at it and go, golly, that’s not very good. So I know that we can get a lot better and will be a lot better in the future. The best thing about it is our team has improved each week.”

Fedora, running back Gio Bernard and quarterback Bryn Renner all give a lot of credit for the offense’s success to the offensive line.

“We’ve kept people off the quarterback,” Fedora said of his line. “We’ve kept him up right as much as possible, and they’ve done a good job in the running game.
So I think that those guys have probably been the most consistent group on our football team at this point. I think that’s why you’re seeing the results that you do.”

The leader of the group is Jonathan Cooper, an All-ACC and even All-America candidate. “I can’t imagine there being that many guards in the country with his kind of skill level. I’ve never had one, actually,” Fedora said. “He’s a 300-plus pounder that can really run, has great feet. I mean, he has phenomenal feet. He’s got feet as good as tight ends out there. So he can stay on blocks. He can pull. He can move. He’s very intelligent. He can pass block with the best of them.”