CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.
There wasn't much gamesmanship about the decision, Larry Fedora said later, no dueling egos and no desire, he said, to prove that North Carolina could do Virginia one better. Not that Bug Howard necessarily agreed with any of that.
“First of all,” Howard, the Tar Heels' senior receiver, said after his team's 35-14 victory at Virginia on Saturday, “that was the first time I've ever seen a snapper score. … But yeah, with that trick play then it was like, 'Oh, it's going to be that type of game?' And so we came right back at them.