{"id":1081877,"date":"2020-09-12T17:37:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T21:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1081877"},"modified":"2026-07-26T14:15:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:15:51","slug":"brownlow-uncs-defense-outshines-the-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1081877","title":{"rendered":"Brownlow: UNC&#8217;s defense outshines the offense"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/brownlow-unc-s-defense-outshines-the-offense\/19283220\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/colleges\/unc\/2019\/10\/26\/18725049\/UNC-20-v-Duke-17-Football-44-LB-DMID1-5o61w0icc-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"UNC wins Victory Bell game versus Duke\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Sam Howell and the UNC offense got nearly all of the preseason hype for the No. 18 Tar Heels. It took three quarters for the offense to get into gear in a 31-6 win over Syracuse, but the defense was dominant from start to finish. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/brownlow-unc-s-defense-outshines-the-offense\/19283220\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/brownlow-unc-s-defense-outshines-the-offense\/19283220\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Brownlow: UNC&#039;s defense outshines the offense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Howell and the UNC offense got nearly all of the preseason hype for the No. 18 Tar Heels. It took three quarters for the offense&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1081877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1081877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1923292,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081877\/revisions\/1923292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1081877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1081877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1081877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}