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UNC vs. Miami Postgame Notes


UNC improves to 12-11 all-time vs. Miami, including 7-3 at home against the Hurricanes. The Tar Heels have won the last three games against Miami. This was the 19th time in the last three seasons UNC has scored 30 or more points. improves to 263-135-1 overall, including an 88-59-1 record in 13 seasons as UNC's head coach.

leads all active coaches in career wins.

Brown is now 3-0 against Miami.

has thrown a touchdown pass in all 32 games as a Tar Heel, the longest active streak in the country. He extended that streak with a 45-yard strike to in the first quarter.

Howell has thrown multiple touchdown passes in 27 of 32 career games.

Howell is second all-time at UNC in career total offense.

UNC Career Total Offense Yards

Howell is second all-time at UNC in career passing yards.

UNC Career Passing Yards

It is the third time this season that has thrown and ran for a touchdown in the same game.

Howell's second career game with multiple rushing touchdowns.

ties the school record held by for most touchdowns responsible for (TDs scored, passed for, and receiving) with 99.

has now scored a touchdown in eight consecutive games, tying (2020) and Gio Bernard (2012) for the second-longest touchdown streak in school history. Charlie "Choo Choo" Justice scored in nine straight games between the 1947 and 1948 seasons.

caught a touchdown pass for the eighth game in a row dating back to last season and has a team-leading eight for the season. It was also the seventh-straight game he made at least eight receptions, the longest streak since Davante Adams of Fresno State had at least eight catches in nine-straight games in 2013.

grabbed a career-high 11 receptions. It is the most by a UNC player against Miami and the most by a UNC sophomore in a single game in program history.

registered his second 100-yard rushing game of the season with 104 yards on 18 carries and scored two rushing touchdowns for the second week in a row and the third time in 2021. He leads the team with seven rushing touchdowns on the season.

Chandler scored two rushing touchdowns in the first half of a game for the first time since Oct. 28, 2017, against Kentucky.

Chandler's 51-yard touchdown run was the second time he has run for 50 yards or more on a single play this season, and the fifth occurrence in his career. He went for 60 yards against Virginia earlier this season.

notched his 24th career sack and is now tied for third in UNC history in career sacks alongside (1992-95) and (2008-11).

caught his first career touchdown pass, a 2-yard pass from in the second quarter.

made his first career start at wide receiver and had two targets.

hauled in the first two interceptions of his career and became the first Tar Heel to have multiple interceptions in a game since had a pair in the 2019 season opener against South Carolina at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte.

had a game- and season-high nine tackles.

UNC's defense gave up 80 yards of offense in the first half. It was the least amount of yards given up by the Tar Heels in the first half this season and the least since 2018 against Miami.

had a season-long punt of 56 yards in the third quarter and averaged 48.0 yards on five punts.

Courtesy UNC Athletics communications

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