I said UF, not FSU. Dang near their whole OL is brand new along w several new DLmen. We were so confident our DL would eat them alive.
Again, regarding UNC, I think u need to look at their starting depth chart and compare. They have less experience than us on offense. Our defense is about even for experience, EXCEPT for they have a former QB now playing LB and that said QB stopped us on 4th & short
My mistake, I misread UF. I was not among those that expected us to eat them alive. Not in a rivalry game against UF. I even said we're not good enough to overlook or disrespect anyone. Having said that who would you think had the strongest OL: one with 4 first time starters, all with 3 years in the program, working under the same system and coaches as the previous. Or one with three first time starters, two were freshman (one a true freshman), all 5 playing for the first time in live action in a new system with new coaches, with a redshirt freshman calling signals. It's clear who had that advantage.
As for UNC, I saw your post. It doesn't matter to me the experience advantage we had in certain position groups like RB, WR, LB. The ones that matter are in the trenches (both sides), QB, and DB. Those are the positions with the longest learning curves. Those are the positions where experience is a bigger factor. Those are the position groups, that in most games, make a difference between winning and losing. QB was a push. With Carter being tossed so earlier on the game our DBs were at an experience disadvantage (no excuse for Bandy, he had a bad game). The OL was still more inexperienced but they improved enough that they didn't factor significantly in the outcome. Neither did our experience advantage in the DL factor into the outcome
Probably the biggest experience factor was the coaching staff. Even though UNC has a new staff and many refer to Mack Brown as a doddering, old, fool, he's been a head coach at a major program for over 20 years. This is not new to him. He brought in experienced coordinators. They got the most out of there players. How do I know this? As much as we dominated statistics, when they had to run, they run. When they were backed inside the 10, they schemed and had two long runs to get them close to mid field. The same thing on their final scoring drive, they started with a run to get them some field position. They repeatedly isolated Garvin on the read option and we never scrapped the LB to provide him support. And that's not to mention the massive brain fart on the 4 and 17 play.
With UNC coming off a 2-10 season and with a new coaching staff, I know it's counter intuitive, but we were more inexperienced in numerous critical areas against UNC.