Carolina fans with frayed nerves and full ashtrays can exhale now. The Tar Heels won on the road, again. To a non-Power 5 team, again. Teetering on the brink of collapse. Again.

The first bye week of the season comes at a splendid time, as Carolina needs some players to get healthy, and the defense could use some more time on the practice field, though they ended up playing much better against the Blue Panthers than the Mountaineers.

Here are three things learned from a pulse-raising win over Georgia State.

Quit scheduling early season Group of Five road games

UNC has not had great luck with their early season schedule since Mack Brown’s return to Chapel Hill.