“It isn't going to change.” So said Larry Fedora when asked about the offside call on an onside kick attempt that his team had recovered with 67 seconds on the clock. The call meant the Tar Heels had to kick again, and Clemson recovered the ensuing try. A first down later, the Tigers were ACC champions.
The consensus among those watching around the country was that the call was missed, that no Tar Heel was offside. In any case, the call happened. “I don't know that we would have gone down and scored,” Fedora said, “but there was like a minute and eight seconds left on the clock, and we should have had the ball at about midfield, and the way we had moved it the last couple of series, I would have felt pretty good about that, [but] it isn't going to change.