Last season the Tar Heel football team came together around the mantra of “Got your back.” That mantra grew from the need to face the adversity thrown its way early in the season and persevere throughout the rest of the season. They went on to win 11 straight games on their way to the ACC’s Coastal Division.
Early this year in spring practice, fall camp and leading up to the first game, head coach Larry Fedora said that the identity of his 2016 team would be hard to determine until they faced some adversity. How they responded to that adversity would reveal what this team was made of and what they were capable of this season.