University of North Carolina Postgame Notes Virginia 44, North Carolina 41 Saturday, October 31, 2020 Scott Stadium, Charlottesville, Va. Game captains: Don Chapman, Joshua Ezeudu, Ben Kiernan, Chazz Surratt, Javonte Williams • North Carolina is 12-10 all-time playing on Halloween. Tonight, marked the first game for the Tar Heels on October 31st since a 39-13 loss at Florida State in 1998. Exactly 50 years ago to the day, Carolina defeated Virginia, 30-15, in Chapel Hill back in 1970. • Carolina and Virginia squared off tonight in the 125th edition of the South’s Oldest Rivalry. Only Minnesota and Wisconsin’s annual battle for Paul Bunyan’s Axe has been played more often (128 times) among FBS rivalries. • The Tar Heels are 64-57-4 all-time against the Cavaliers. • Mack Brown is now 255-130-1 in his 32nd season as a collegiate head coach, and 80-54-1 in 12 seasons at North Carolina. • Mack Brown is 3-9 all-time against the Virginia Cavaliers. All 12 meetings have come as the head coach of the Tar Heels. • Carolina had 536 total yards of offense against Virginia, the fourth straight game with at least that many yards for the first time in at least 50 years, dating back to existing records that begin in 1971. UNC has accumulated more than 400 yards of total offense in each of its last 14 games. • Since Mack Brown took over the Carolina program in 2019, all eight losses have been by seven points or less. Both losses this season have come by three points. • Sam Howell finished the game 23 of 28 for 443 yards and four passing touchdowns. The 443 yards are the most in his collegiate career and the third most in program history. Howell has six of the top 25 single-game passing totals in Tar Heel history. • Sam Howell notched his fourth career game with four passing touchdowns. All coming previously in 2019, Howell had five against Virginia Tech and four against both Georgia Tech and Virginia. He has thrown a touchdown pass in all 19 games of his collegiate career, the second longest active streak in the country. • Entering the game, Sam Howell’s longest pass of the season had been 43 yards. He threw a pair of 76 and 54 yard touchdown strikes in the first half. • Dyami Brown had a career-high 11 catches for 240 yards and three receiving touchdowns. He scored from 54-yards out on the opening drive and added a pair of 10 and 13-yard scores in the second half. Last season against the Cavaliers, Brown posted six catches for a then career-high 202 yards and three TDs. • Brown’s 240 receiving yards were the second most in program history. Randy Marriott holds the record with 247 yards against Georgia Tech in 1987. • Brown is the first Tar Heel player to record two career games with three touchdown receptions since Hakeem Nicks had three against Boston College and West Virginia in 2008. • Dyami Brown has 19 career receiving touchdowns, tied for fourth in program history with Octavius Barnes (1994-97) and Ryan Switzer (2013-16). • Khafre Brown, younger brother of Dyami, connected with Howell for a 76-yard touchdown in the second quarter, the longest pass of Howell’s two-year career at North Carolina. • Javonte Williams scored his ACC-leading 11th rushing and 13th overall touchdown of the season. He entered the day second in the nation in touchdowns behind Alabama’s Najee Harris. • Graduate transfer Grayson Atkins’ 51-yard field goal in the first quarter was not only his season long, but also the longest by a Tar Heel kicker since Freeman Jones made a 51-yarder at Pitt in 2017. His career long FG of 55 yards came during his junior season at Furman in 2019. .