Five defensive trends UNC Football has to fix

Posted Sep 27, 2022
North Carolina suffered its first loss of the season this past weekend against Notre Dame. The defense couldn’t do anything to stop a previously struggling Irish offense, and it showed that UNC has some serious issues on that side of the ball that are going to hold it back this year. Here are 5 defensive trends UNC has to fix as it heads into ACC play. (Saturday Road)

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