It’s a shame that the player of the game isn’t Sam Howell. UNC’s best quarterback in program history didn’t have enough in the tank to drag this Tar Heel team to victory against a depleted South Carolina program.
It can’t be anyone on a defense that allowed 38 points and 543 yards of total offense against a team that had averaged 22 and 294 respectively. The Gamecocks were undermanned and still put on a performance against the favored Heels in a mostly friendly Bank of America Stadium.
The playmakers that Carolina needed the most--Josh Downs, Ty Chandler, and British Brooks--didn’t do enough to merit much consideration.