It’s easy to get caught up in the moment of watching a football game, especially when you’re in the stadium or watching with friends. You start forming opinions, they take over, and everything that you see later turns into confirmation bias. Later on, if you have access to watch the game again away from the emotions, away from your opinions, you’ll find that things look a lot different.
Such is the case with the UNC win versus App State on Saturday. In real time, it looked like the lid had been placed on quarterback Drake Maye, and every play just fed into this thought.