Maryland Terrapins vs North Carolina Tar Heels Match Player Stats On Nov 24, 2012

SportsDirect Inc. staff
Nov 24, 2012

North Carolina 45, Maryland 38: Bryn Renner threw for 305 yards and five touchdowns to break the school’s single-season record for touchdown passes as the host Tar Heels defeated the Terrapins, clinching their fourth eight-win season in five years.

Giovani Bernard paced the ground attack for North Carolina (8-4, 5-3 ACC) with 163 rushing yards and a touchdown on 27 carries. Quinshad Davis continued as the top target for Renner, catching nine passes for 135 yards and two touchdowns.

Brandon Ross led Maryland (4-8, 2-6) with 141 rushing yards and a touchdown on 21 carries. Ross broke the school’s single-game rushing record for a freshman and became just the third first-year back in school history to have two 100-yard rushing games in the same season.

Maryland scored two touchdowns in the last 21 seconds of the first half to take a 28-21 lead at the break before Maryland freshman Stefon Diggs returned the second-half kickoff 99 yards for a touchdown to move ahead 35-21.

Less than a minute later, Renner connected with Davis on a 50-yard scoring strike, breaking his own single-season mark for touchdown passes. Renner tied another school record with his fifth touchdown pass of the game and 28th of his career when he hit Erik Highsmith on a 15-yard score to tie the score at 35-35 with 12:10 left in the third quarter. A 22-yard field goal by Thomas Moore 5:12 later gave the Tar Heels the lead for good.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Diggs passed LaMont Jordan for second place on the school’s single-season all-time all-purpose yards list. He finished with 1,896 all-purpose yards. … Maryland took its first double-digit lead in six weeks when it went ahead by 14 points on Diggs’ kickoff return. … Davis finished with 61 catches on the season, second most by a freshman in ACC history.