Virginia at #5 North Carolina - Football - Sept. 27, 1997

after throttling P Manning again the

Gators now Target kuy's Golden Arm QB if

you don't get up out of there real quick

he's in the world of trouble our

Manning's Heisman chance is a little

shakier will'll examine who's joined the

Chase and who has the look of a real

winner Ron Palace and Notre Dame haven't

had that winning look will A Renewed

rivalry with Michigan jump start the

Irish North Carolina could use a jump

start against Nemesis Virginia will

answers at QB lead the heels to a w game

day celebrates a surprising September to

remember

next on some payback last year

Virginia's Victory cost them about 7

million bucks in an alliance Bowl

Virginia's beaten the heels eight out of

10 they've won the last four times that

Carolina has been ranked in this matchup

for the second game now the super

efficient Oscar Davenport replaces the

ineffective Chris keldorf as 10 years

ago m brown wondered if there would ever

be light at the end of the North

Carolina football tunnel but right now

he has a bright and Shining program and

today ABC Sports presentation of college

football brings you a key battle from

North Carolina the fifth ranked Tar

Heels at home get set to face their Arch

Rivals from one state north the

Cavaliers of Virginia from Keenan

Stadium North Carolina was some of the

best defenders in all of college

football maybe the best at the

cornerback position in the game and also

a linebacker who may be on his way to

the buus award as the top player at that

position but Virginia has players that

can stretch a defense and they've got

Defenders who can knock the tar right

off your heels we get set to bring our

road show to Chapel

Hill here as the fourth rusher they're

in a three-man line actually they bring

five when you start to copy it but

Griffith gets them first Rainer at the

end of it and it's one of those Zone

Blitz principles fire zone whatever you

want to call it they bring five and play

zone behind it Virginia special teams

have been over the years and they got

one and it's picked up and it's going to

be a Virginia touchdown Dwayne stook

scores just like that another block punt

it was poin Dexter I think that blocked

it and stooks did the rest I'm

not I'm not sure if Schmid's even tried

to punt this ball I don't know if he

dropped it or saw the block coming it

just looked oh yes coind Dexter actually

took it out of his hand before he hit

the ball that's an unbelievable block

punt by Poindexter one of the great

players in college football Poindexter

took it mid dribble stole it to him from

his hand to his foot he tipped it out I

it it looked odd from up here to begin

with when you see it on replay it's a

tremendous play John Allen Roberts point

after is good and the crowd at Keenan

stadium is stunned by what has just

happened Anthony Poindexter and Dwayne

stooks with a a touchdown for

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Virginia There It Is did he make it yes

touchdown Virginia see what happens in

that place is the linebacker lines up so

deep you just beat him to the spot nice

call

George

Cavaliers now are a point away from

having the kind of lead that North

Carolina had this game last year Brooks

the second successful quarterback sneak

in the game so far one was for a first

down and of course this one for six

points well there's a second touchdown

scored against North Carolina though one

was on special teams but not too many

people score anything against that

Carolina blue defense 17

to3 a long ways to go though they've got

533 left in the

half John Allen Roberts for the point

after got

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it good looking drive and that guy

Brooks goes in behind the Biggins up

front his offensive line came off the

ball with a surge and there's sers are

and obviously a shocked crowd earlier in

this game is is that Jim is all

right almost 58,000 looking on and they

are stunned by what Virginia has done to

their fifth ranked Tar Hill so

far that might not come to the same kick

just about the same spot different

Return Man this time Antoine black and

he got it out to the 28 maybe the 29 yd

line a little shoving after the play but

it's been the Virginia Special team as

we said right before that

first punt attempts by North Carolina

that they've been special in the last 38

games they blocked 12 punts you make it

13 now they blocked a punt for a

touchdown that stooks took in it was po

Dexter who blocked it then the fumble

recovery that was scooped up and uh they

almost had a touchdown out of that they

ended up with a field goal from it so 10

points from the Virginia Special teams

today and you add that to the 88 yd

drive and Brooks capped it from a yard

out with a quarterback sneak and now

it's shotgun time and four wide out time

for Carolina here's Linton across the

middle got about

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five we're probably going to see a

different North Carolina setup now for

quite a while here Gary not just in this

quarter but in the third as well yeah

they they really went away from the

running game a week ago against Marland

and Dav Port was very comfortable

throwing the ball around so I think

they're going to give DAV Port an

opportunity to throw the ball down the

field here four wide out grouping and

he's going to go complete great catch N

brown Out of Bounds at the 45 ohy he's

got nice hands N brown is probably the

best thinker as the wide receivers he

runs most of their option routes a lot

of their read routs very good at being

able to find the opening in the zone

Davenport has confidence in him so he

just throws it up and knows that theyve

Brown is going to go get it Davenport

operating from the shotgun this time not

just the Scrambler this guy nice touch

on this ball right into the sport steps

into

it first down three wide outs to the

right they'll throw the screen back to

Stevens the other way yeah a little bit

of a high delivery had a man out there

trying to help block for him po Dexter

got over there to make the tack along

with Donnie

green coin Dexter is really unable so

far in this football game he seems to be

going the right direction on every play

Virginia's playing a lot of Zone soft

zone right now

second down short five Blitz coming

Davenport over the middle o NE Brown

took a shot even though he didn't get

his hands on the ball as W rer let him

have it Brad you called it a blitz and

you were half right that ain't bad guy

came from the outside but Shannon Taylor

the defensive end dropped that's the

fire zone Blitz the blitz with the Zone

behind it that really confused Davenport

and made that throw not go exactly where

he wanted to see i' have thrown to the

wrong guy too

you're right you watch Shannon Taylor

number nine drop on that play even

though they're blitzing at the top

Davenport's a little bit confused it

does nothing happens Here Comes

everybody on Third and five got it to NE

Brown he's got the first down to the

30 rer let Davenport have it after he

let go but it's a completion on a first

down North Carolina that was definitely

Davenport's best throw re K was right in

his face found N brown and got the first

down on on the play n is the first down

guy that he'll be looking for in those

situations so crisply North Carolina

moves it down the field first and 10 at

the Virginia