​There were some good signs in UNC’s performance against #3 Notre Dame in Kenan Stadium, certainly as compared with their embarrassing collapse against Clemson. Losing by 11 to a team favored by 21, and posting twice as many points in a game as the Fighting Irish had allowed in any game so far this season, is not nothing. But at the same time, the game wasn’t quite as close as the final score and there were long portions of the game when the Tar Heels looked exactly as hopelessly outmatched as expected. And furthermore, I’m only here to grade what gets put in front of me, not to grade on a curve based on low expectations. Like Dusty Dvoracek said on broadcast, at some point, regardless of who’s lining up across from you, you’ve gotta start putting up some wins.Quarterback: C-Billy Edwards’s first drive appeared to help him shake off his dreadful performance against Clemson. He didn’t do too much, but found Jordan Shipp for a couple of chunk plays and then tossed a walk-in touchdown to Shemar Easter in the red zone. And then the nightmare reappeared: two of Edwards’ next three passes were intercepted, both picks entirely on him and the kind that you’re playing a veteran QB specifically to avoid: the first, when he didn’t feel a rusher closing in and got his arm hit rather than eating a sack, the second when he just completely missed a roaming safety who picked off a moonball. Both led to Notre Dame touchdowns that looked like they might break the game wide open. But then, given a chance to run a two-minute drill down the length of the field, he put together easily his best drive of the season, finding quick completion after quick completion, most of them to tight ends and a couple of them absolute seeds, capping it off with a nice throw to the front pylon for a Jelani Thurman touchdown that got his team to within a score at half. That pattern basically repeated itself in the second half: Edwards failed to get anything going for two drives, missing a couple of passes he should have had and ending with 2 quick punts, and then marched down the field on a scoring drive in which he looked like what he was supposed to look like the whole time to make the score respectable. A final line of 17/28 for 208 yards and 3 touchdowns would have been more than serviceable for Edwards, but the 2 picks put quite a damper on it. Perhaps this version of Edwards would have beaten Clemson, but unless he takes care of the ball, it’s still not good enough for the rest of this season.Running Backs: C-For the first time all season, the UNC run game was bottled up against a defensive front that, for most of the game, gave the Heels’ backs nowhere to go. Jaylen McGill and Demon June had one solid run apiece, and Benjamin Hall had a garbage time 8-yarder to salvage his stats from bad to just mediocre. Even with those, all three backs averaged worse than 4 yards a carry, and only 2 of their 20 attempts went for first downs. June added a 12-yard reception