North Carolina played a pretty basic strategy against GT. The played a classic pyramid linebacking formation with the middle linebacker waaaay behind the outside linebackers and they brought their safeties in just a little bit. They focused on not giving up big plays and making Georgia Tech work for it. For a half, it worked. Both of GT’s first half scoring drives were long, grind it out drives that lasted over 15 plays and at least 7 minutes.
First, to counter the Tar Heels moving their safeties in (and perhaps to get Taquon Marshall more comfortable throwing the ball) Paul Johnson seemed to try to air it out some.