I had a friend text me in the second quarter, saying “it’s bizarro UNC. defense is giving them points and Yates is hitting receivers…” in reference to the famous Seinfeld episode. Well, in a more upsetting and less bizarro fashion, the Heels managed to blow another second half lead and ruin the positive momentum they had accumulated with wins in the previous four games.

You can’t say enough about Russell Wilson, who singlehandedly beat the Tar Heels on a day where the offense was reminiscient of last year’s big play attack. I hope he goes pro in baseball and stops torturing us when our team is clearly the better one on the field.

Congratulations to the Wolfpack fans (my mom inparticular) who put up with me even after reading the more disparaging post I put up on Thursday. For some reason, y’all have our number. Just answer me this one question: what bowl are you going to?

- With a positive result, we would be talking about the maturation of the passing game, in particular Greg Little. What a ballgame this man had. His hands have always been questionable, but for the first time he looked like he KNEW he was coming down with every ball thrown his way. I love a confident player, and Little was definitely that today. 159 yards receiving.

- What happened after State’s first three drives? Carolina stopped the Wolfpack three and out on their first three drives, but it looked to me like State’s coaches were trying to figure out the pulse of Carolina’s defense early on. Once they spread it out and let Wilson get a few quick hitters to Jarvis Williams and Owen Spencer, all 54 yards (the width) of the field were prone to be attacked. Wilson exploited every last one of them.

- Sweet tattoos, N.C. State K Josh Czajkowski.

- Running game: Ryan Houston looked freshman year timid today (although that could be because I’m watching Toby Gerhart and Jonathan Dwyer as I write this post). He was tiptoeing around holes and got stopped in the backfield more often than usual. Meanwhile, I’ll pat myself on the back for calling Johnny White as a player to watch. 83 yards, including his 40-yard touchdown run (the best executed play by UNC’s offense all season) were marred by his goal line fumble.

- Our secondary is vulnerable against quarterbacks who are any threat to get the ball downfield. Wilson and Christian Ponder have been the best demonstrators of this fact, so hopefully our bowl opponent has a QB with a separated throwing shoulder. It was embarrassing to see Charles Brown, especially, talk trash, get burned, then talk more trash.

- As a program, we still have growing to do. Two ‘inexcusable’ losses this season show room to grow, but also plenty of room to digress. I still trust in the staff to get us over the hump, starting with revenge wins against State and Virginia in 2010.

- Marvin Austin played the best game of his Carolina career. He was in the State backfield all day, making plays in the running game and a sack to end the first half. If you go pro, best of luck to you big guy. I’d rather you come back and beat these guys once instead.