With 10 minutes remaining in the third quarter of a one-score game, Michael Carter lined up to the right of Brandon Harris and saw the look.
As two Virginia linebackers inched closer to the line of scrimmage, almost on the backs of the crouching defensive linemen in front of them, the Cavaliers’ defense looked familiar.
The North Carolina football team had practiced against the exact same blitz in Friday’s walkthrough in Kenan Memorial Stadium. When Carter took a handoff during that drill, he attacked the wrong gap.
“Hey, it’s not going to be there,” running backs coach DeAndre Smith told his first-year tailback.