As UNC head coach Mack Brown walked off the field following his team’s win against Wake Forest late Saturday night, one particular moment made him think. He noticed a senior look at one of his teammates and scream, “We’re bowl eligible!” The raw excitement of simply winning six games wouldn’t have been there for the Tar Heel teams of the last two seasons, which secured a bowl ticket almost as early as possible. But for this year’s group, the joy of getting to play another football game is palpable. Fans who saw the horror of an historically bad faceplant against James Madison or the heartbreak of a last-minute loss to Georgia Tech – UNC’s most recent home game before Saturday – wouldn’t have believed their eyes. “It’s been too easy for us to get [to bowl eligibility in the past]," Brown said. "We haven’t finished. But this team, they’re on a mission to finish right. That’s what we said in January, and that’s what they’re doing.” It wasn’t just the losses on the scoreboard which had ...