Regular season ·

North Carolina beat Miami

No. 20 North Carolina8-362
No. 9 Miami8-226Final
Sat, Dec 12 · Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens, Fla. · Crowd 12,092 · 77°, mainly clearABC

Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.

No. 20 North Carolina beat No. 9 Miami by 36 points.

How the game turned

North Carolina aheadMiami aheadLow: 32%

Q1 8:53 North Carolina 7, Miami 3

North Carolina 54% to win

Williams 2-yd TD run, North Carolina goes ahead 7-3

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 11:46 · North Carolina 0, Miami 3Borregales 47-yd field goal, Miami goes ahead 3-0
  2. 2Q1 8:53 · North Carolina 7, Miami 3North Carolina's win chance rose from 45% to 54%.Williams 2-yd TD run, North Carolina goes ahead 7-3
  3. 3Q1 0:15 · North Carolina 21, Miami 3North Carolina's win chance rose from 70% to 85%.Carter 65-yd TD run, North Carolina leads 21-3

North Carolina's lowest chance to win was 32 percent. Win chance is our own calculation from the play-by-play, with each game's start set from the pregame expectation.

How the lead changed

North Carolina took the lead for good with 8:53 left in the 1st quarter, North Carolina 7, Miami 3.

What happened next

  1. Miami went from No. 9 to No. 19 in the next AP poll.

  2. Miami's next game: L 34-37 vs Oklahoma State in the Cheez-It Bowl, Dec 29

    17 days later
  3. North Carolina's next game: L 27-41 vs Texas A&M in the Capital One Orange Bowl, Jan 2

    21 days later
  4. The teams' next meeting after Dec 12, 2020: North Carolina 45, Miami 42, Oct 16, 2021

    about 10 months later

Related pages

Scores, dates and the stage: ESPN. Win chance: our curve from play-by-play; the turn is its largest one-play change that moved with the score.

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