One week into August training camp, the Carolina football team is trying to channel that squad that climbed to 9-1 and No. 11 in the nation by mid-November of last fall. You remember the Drake-for-Heisman conversations and the Tar Heels speculated as potential College Football Playoff spoilers. How sweet it was.
"We got on our high horse a little bit after clinching the Coastal against Wake," QB Drake Maye says of the Tar Heels high of beating Wake Forest to clinch the ACC Coastal title the second Saturday in November and the ensuing low of a four-game losing skid to end the year.