We are excited to announce a new feature that will be available for our subscribers here at Tar Heel Illustrated.

HEEL CHAT is a new chat feature that we will use to replace our game day threads that are very popular when the Tar Heels play. Also, we can have special chats on all kinds of topics involving the Tar Heels. You can ask our staff questions whether it's general questions about the Tar Heels in football, basketball, or recruiting.

To join the CHAT, please click the CHAT button that in listed right below the Tar Heel Illustrated banner. On the phone, you must pull the site menu up and scroll down to CHAT.

We feel really excited about the new feature and it will debut on Saturday when the Tar Heels host Appalachian State in Kenan Stadium.

We suggest that you join the chat to experience instant reactions and thoughts as the Tar Heels face the Mountaineers. There will be a thread in which all chat posts will be posted and you can still post in that, but the chat will be so much easier and you will not have to keep hitting refresh. LOL!!!

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Just wanted to let our basketball fans know about this as well. I know a lot of you guys are going to love it when we have special chats with @David Sisk

Let’s go….

To remind, Michigan St stupidly gave Tucker a Nick Saban-like contract because he had 1 very lucky 11-2 team. My view then was that they would regret it, probably badly. They had an earlier shot to try to get out of it and did not take now. Now, thanks to sexual harassment, they can get rid of that awful deal they made.

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Was our other kicker this bad really is he a soccer kicker because that what he looks like , are you kidding me how bad can we play? We get a chance to win it twice and we screw up , where in the world is our defense?

We are super excitred to introduce our new in-game chat that will be connected to this thread.

You CAN post in this thread, but the people in the chat will NOT see it. You CAN see everything by viewing this thread.

Deana, Brandon and I are in the press box, Kevin and Jacob are on the field.


Deana will post a link to the chat below.

North Carolina 40, App State 34 (2OT)
September 9, 2023 • Kenan Stadium • Chapel Hill, N.C.

● Carolina improves to 2-0, while Appalachian State falls to 1-1.
● Mack Brown is 276-144-1, including a 101-68-1 record in 15 seasons as head coach of the Tar Heels.
● The Tar Heels improve to 3-1 against App State.
● Carolina is now 5-10 in overtime games, including 2-4 in multiple OT games.
● This was Carolina’s first overtime victory since defeating Virginia Tech in 2015, breaking a streak of six consecutive
losses in overtime.
● This was UNC’s second win ever in a multiple-OT game (also vs. Tennessee in 2010 in the Music City Bowl in
Nashville).
● This marked the first time UNC has played back-to-back overtime games at Kenan Stadium (lost to NC State in double
overtime last season).
● The Tar Heels are 2-0 for the 10th time in Mack Brown’s 15 seasons as UNC’s head coach.
● Brown improves to 13-2 in home openers at Kenan Stadium, 5-0 since his return in 2019.
● Since Mack Brown’s return to Chapel Hill in 2019, the Tar Heels improve to 12-4 versus in-state opponents (including
ACC games).
● Carolina is 52-22 as a ranked team in Mack Brown’s 15 seasons.
● Carolina’s 40 points were the most scored without a passing touchdown since the Tar Heels scored 42 against Georgia
Southern in 2009.
● It was Carolina’s first win without a passing touchdown since 2015 against Virginia.
● This was the 20th time the Tar H eels have scored 40 or more points since Brown returned to UNC in 2019.
● Carolina gained 527 yards. The Tar Heels have won eight straight times they gained 500 yards and 11 in a row when
they gain 400 or more. It was the 23rd time since Brown returned UNC gained 500 or more yards.
● Drake Maye is 7-3 as a starter in games decided by one score.
● Maye passed Jason Stanicek for seventh place in UNC history with 5,729 total offense yards (Stanicek totaled 5,497
from 1991-94).
● Maye passed Stanicek and Mitch Trubisky in passing yards with 4,887 (Stanicek threw for 4,683 and Trubisky passed
for 4,762 from 2014-16).
● Maye also passed Trubisky in completions with 394 (Trubisky had 386). It was his 20th game as a starter with 20 or
more completions.
● Carolina rushed for 319 yards, most since rushing for 330 against Wake Forest on November 6, 2021.
● Sophomore running back Omarion Hampton rushed for career-high 234 yards on 26 carries. It was the 13th-most
rushing yards in a game by a Tar Heel and the most since 2020 at Miami when Michael Carter gained 308 and Javonte
Williams rushed for 236.
● It was Carolina’s first 200-yard rushing game since Ty Chandler gained 213 against Wake Forest in 2021. It was the
27th time a Tar Heel has rushed for 200 yards in a game.
● Hampton's 68-yard rushing touchdown in the second quarter was the longest run of his career.
● Hampton set a career high with three rushing touchdowns. It was the first time a Tar Heel had three rushing
touchdowns in a game since Chandler had four vs. Wake Forest in 2021.
● Hampton also rushed for two touchdowns in week one vs. South Carolina and is the first Tar Heel to record multiple
rushing touchdowns in consecutive games since Chandler in 2021.
● Hampton is the first Tar Heel to rush for five TDs in the first two games since at least 1995.
● Caleb Hood’s 5-yard rushing touchdown was the second TD carry of his career and his first since Virginia in 2021.
● Hampton rushed for 101 yards in the 2022 home opener against Florida A&M. He is the first Tar Heel to rush for more
than 100 yards in back-to-back home openers since Ethan Horton in 1982 vs. Vanderbilt and 1983 vs. Memphis.
● WR Nate McCollum made his first appearance as a Tar Heel and had one reception for eight yards.
● JJ Jones' 57-yard reception, which set up a Hampton touchdown, was the second longest of his career.
● WR Kobe Paysour led the Tar Heels with eight receptions for 73 yards.
● LT Diego Pounds made his first career start in place of Ed Montilus (lower body injury).
● RB British Brooks did not play (lower body injury).
● LB Cedric Gray led UNC with 11 tackles. It was his 12th career game with double-digit tackles.
● Desmond Evans tied his career high with six tackles (last year at App State).
● DB Don Chapman’s interception was the fourth of his career and first since 2020 against NC State.
● DB Marcus Allen set his career high with three pass breakups.
● Ryan Coe’s 47-yard FG in the second quarter was Carolina’s longest since Noah Burnette made a 47-yard FG at App
State in 2022.

of both UNC and future foes, which do you now expect to be our toughest ACC game?

@ Pitt September 23
Miami in Kenan October 14
@ Clemson November 18

UNC tried two wildcat plays tonight and neither worked. And it's not sure the Heels will run it again. Mack Brown was not pleased with the calls.

“No, the Wildcat (formation) is not what I want on fourth down and inches with a 6-foot 5-inch, 235-pound quarterback," he said. "So, it's going be put on the shelf for short yardage, for sure. I was on it pretty quickly and Chip (Lindsey) agreed. I mean, if we'd made it, we made it at South Carolina. If we'd made it tonight, nobody would have said anything and probably it would have been a mistake later on. So I'm glad that happened. We also didn't block the backside on the third and one and we've got to do that. So those are things that we can do better as coaches.”