“Louisville had it in the bag, or so it seemed.<\/p>\n
“The No. 19 Cardinals were up 36-7 on North Carolina at the end of the first half. But the game wasn\u2019t decided until UNC, trailing 39-34, failed to complete a Bryn Renner pass from the Louisville 4-yard line with 1:49 left in the game.<\/p>\n
A game that should have\u2014could have\u2014been a blowout quickly turned into a nailbiter as the UNC defense clamped down and Louisville fought just to hang on.” “Down five points, the Tar Heels were given an incredible opportunity to complete the rally after Louisville fumbled on their 25-yard line. It came down to a 4th and goal for North Carolina, but Bryn Renner\u2019s final pass attempt was broken up by Andrew Johnson. By ‘broken up,’ I meant Johnson pulled Erik Highsmith’s helmet off by the facemask.” “We had to come up with a big-time play in a big-time game. I saw (Tar Heels receiver Erik Highsmith) jump and I knew I would outjump him, so I got my hand on the ball and tried to strip the ball. … But with (losing) such a big lead, no coach should be happy.” \u201cI really thought we were going to come back and win this. Everything was going in our favor in the second half. I mean, I just gotta make that play. I\u2019m probably gonna have nightmares about it. I gotta make that play.\u201d “I thought second half we came back and competed our butts off.” \u201cFrom what I can remember from the first half, it looked like a lack of effort, a lack of intensity, a lack of passion, a lot of mental mistakes. You name it: whatever could go wrong went wrong in the first half. You gotta give Louisville credit, but we can\u2019t play football the way we played in the first half.\u201d “Louisville had it in the bag, or so it seemed. “The No. 19 Cardinals were up 36-7 on North Carolina at the end of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/4277","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=4277"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4280,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions\/4280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– Sporting News<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n– Joe Ovies, 99.9 FM The Fan ESPN Radio<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n– Andrew Johnson, who contested the fourth down pass <\/strong><\/p>\n
\n– Erik Highsmith, UNC receiver<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n– Bryn Renner, UNC QB<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n– Larry Fedora, UNC coach<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"