Last year, Carolina traveled to Georgia Tech for their ACC opener, quickly falling behind 21-0 in the second quarter. Carolina was only three weeks removed from a frustrating loss to border rival South Carolina. The Heels had bounced back strongly with home blowouts over North Carolina A&T and Illinois. Those were separate challenges in themselves, but here Carolina sat down 21-0, a margin that the program had never overcome in a victory, where they had not won in 18 years. History was clearly stacked up against the Tar Heels.
In the past, you would have watched Georgia Tech grind away the victory by a large margin, but this afternoon in Atlanta was different.