by Lee Pace, GoHeels.com
“Statistics tell us that a person who eats rarely survives,” said the Scottish knight William Wallace, which is hilarious when you think about it. Indeed, statistics can be twisted and contorted and made to stand on their heads to prove a point. Nonetheless, today we dive head-long into parsing the Tar Heel football stats book on the cusp of the inauguration of their ACC schedule with a trip to Georgia Tech:
• The record, 3-1. The Gaffe Vs. the Gamecocks still stings, but the Tar Heels have played 10 mature, focused and productive quarters since the opener in Charlotte against North Carolina A&T, Illinois and Delaware.