The Shoe That Didn't Drop: The Expected UNC Football Stumble That Never Came

Posted Nov 22, 2015
Perhaps more than any other time all season, UNC took a game which so much had gone wrong and mustered enough right plays to get the win. The 2015 Tar Heels came face-to-face with the demons of UNC's football past and, with a division title on the line, exorcised them. For the first time in long time UNC fans can stop waiting for the other shoe to drop. (Tar Heel Blog)

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