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Inside Carolina: A UNC athletics podcast

Day After: UNC Smothers Syracuse

Inside Carolina: A UNC athletics podcast

Inside Carolina

Football, Sports, Baseball, Basketball

4.8778 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

North Carolina has struggled the finish the job the past two weeks. On Friday night in Syracuse, the Tar Heels completed the task at hand, dominating Fran Brown's team, 27-10 with their first complete and complementary performance of the season. Inside Carolina's Jason Staples and Buck Sanders join Tommy Ashley to discuss the win and how Bill Belichick and the Heels finally put it all together on Halloween night in the JMA Dome. **Call to Action:**   **Subscribe:** Follow 'Inside Carolina' wherever you get your podcasts to never miss an episode!   **Review:** Leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to help us reach more Tar Heel fans!   **Visit:** Explore http://www.InsideCarolina.com for breaking news, recruiting updates, and expert commentary on all things UNC sports. This show is brought to you by Inside Carolina, the No. 1 site for UNC sports coverage and community. Visit http://www.InsideCarolina.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

I'm

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Bhopa

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Bhop

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Bhop

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Bhop

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Bhaar Welcome to Inside Carolina's Day After podcast, sponsored by Johnny T-shirt.

0:34.3

As always, that's Buck Sanders, that's Jason Staples. I'm Tommy Ashley, Carolina 27,

0:40.8

Syracuse 10 up in the dome in Syracuse. Buck, we're talking about a P4 win here. A lot of good,

0:49.3

a lot of good. Some caveats, but a lot of good to talk about this morning. Absolutely. Of course, it didn't take

0:59.0

much of an eye to see that Syracuse is not the most forbidible team in the universe. But the

1:08.2

thing that I keep going back to and thinking about this game is that

1:12.1

North Carolina has played some teams that weren't great in the past.

1:19.5

And I don't know exactly when they held another team to 147 yards total offense,

1:27.2

but it's not been since 2017. held another team to 147 yards total offense.

1:31.9

But it's not been since 2016.

1:34.0

I looked on the CFB stats.

1:42.0

I can't find a game where they held anybody under 150 yards and at least 10 years.

1:46.7

So yes, it was quality of competition,

1:49.7

suffered a little bit up there in Syracuse,

1:54.0

but New Carolina hasn't played this well defensively and have it put together actually a complete game.

1:59.5

It might be the way to think about it,

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