Opponent Q&A: North Carolina

Welcome back to the final edition of our Opponent Q&A series, featuring the North Carolina Tar Heels, South Carolina’s combatant in Thursday’s Duke’s Mayo Bowl. Many thanks to Brandon Anderson of sister site Tar Heel Blog for his insightful answers to our burning questions.

While South Carolina is coming into this game as a sort of storybook ending to Shane Beamer’s first year in Columbia, the Mayo Bowl feels like a bit of a consolation prize for a North Carolina team that started the season with a top-10 ranking. How did such a promising start get derailed?