A lot of us wrote, during the week leading up to Saturday’s game against Campbell, that it was coming at an opportune time for UNC to reset, or have a get-right game, or whatever you want to call it. This was especially true of the defense, which after looking like a unit that could create enough havoc to at least pretend to be decent, had been embarrassed for two straight weeks by bad offenses that figured out that the Tar Heels couldn’t stop them if they just went uptempo.
For the first quarter and change, the Camels didn’t really let that happen, reeling off a couple of big-time uptempo drives themselves, racking up 109 yards in the first quarter at over 6 yards a play, staying level with the Heels through the game’s first 21 minutes.