The North Carolina Tarheels took it to the University of Miami 59-21 in a game that was played with an edge from the opening kickoff. Marquise Williams keeps racking up the touchdowns for North Carolina and North Carolina won their ninth game in a row and only need one more win to wrap up their first Coastal Division title and a trip to their first ACC Championship game.
The game was chippy from the beginning. Multiple personal fouls on both teams, Miami had over 100 yards in penalties, North Carolina had over 50, and that is going to happen with a game of this magnitude. The only thing I really did not like was the "inverted 'U'" symbol that Marquise Williams made after scoring a touchdown and Ryan Switzer did the same thing after returning a punt for a touchdown before halftime.
If anybody deserves treatment like that, it would be Miami. They have done that kind of thing for years and most sports are very cyclical. If you play a team every year, there is always that one year that other team will exact a little bit of payback. North Carolina has a history of playing Miami tough even when Miami was at the top of the college football world.
Miami was not a bad team coming into the game at 6-3 and still with a chance to win the Coastal Division. Miami needed a scapegoat after a 58-0 thrashing at the hands of Clemson about a month ago and Coach Al Golden was that scapegoat. They are still pretty much the same team they were a month ago and they will probably end up in a bowl game but that is not good enough for "the U."
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