Duke 42, UNC 35: UNC unable to keep up again

Nell Redmond-USA TODAY SportsA series of frustrating losses for the UNC Tar Heels just gained another chapter with yet another one-possession game ending the wrong way for Larry Fedora’s team, this time against rival Duke. It was nothing we haven’t already seen this season: Flashes of good play on both sides of the ball, but too little and too inconsistently to really dent the other side in any meaningful way, concluding with a score that looks much closer than the game mostly felt.

The game started off downright pleasantly, as the Heels marched down the field entirely on the strength of their run game in a drive that ended in a 14-yard Anthony Ratliff-Williams scamper where he took the snap…