“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant, and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
- Isoroku Yamamoto
Rare is it the occasion that you get to bear witness to nights that define a program, victories that become etched into the archives and change the narrative for how you’ll be perceived.
In front of just over 14,000 strong, where the most cantankerous of voices echoed out into the Queen City night from a student section splattered with green, the Charlotte 49ers staked claim to their first ever victory over a Power Five program, earning retribution over an institution that had overpowered them in every aspect less than a year prior.