A halftime dialogue and the words after it gave confidence.
Deshawn Purdie stepped to the side with Biff Poggi and the two had a pep talk in the locker room. It just wasn't needed.
The quarterback told his coach, "I was built for this," when they talked at the break. Word that redshirt sophomore Max Brown's injury would keep him out the rest of the game, and at least one more, had come down.
The stand-in's task was a comeback effort against the largest crowd Charlotte will face this season.