It’s been a tumultuous Thanksgiving week for the North Carolina Tar Heels, who fired longtime head football coach Mack Brown.
Regardless of Brown’s firing, UNC (6-5, 3-4 ACC) has one final opponent to arrange for beneath Brown: in-state rival NC State.
North Carolina owns a large benefit (60-39-4) in its all-time collection towards the Wolfpack (5-6, 2-5 ACC), however the rivalry has change into one-sided lately. NC State gained 2021’s matchup by way of a late-game comeback in Raleigh, 2022’s version in double-overtime, then in 2023 by a 39-20 mark.
A Tar Heels victory would guarantee them bragging rights for years to come back, as it will deny State bowl eligibility.
No matter what occurs Saturday in Chapel Hill, we all know UNC can be taking part in in some recent, all-Carolina Blue uniforms towards its hated rivals.
2023’s version of UNC-NC State wasn’t a lot of a battle, with State leaping out to a 23-0 benefit. Afterwards, Wolfpack head coach Dave Doeren had some choice words concerning the Tar Heels.
North Carolina’s season began with three straight wins, however a 70-50 dwelling loss towards James Madison began the fall-off. UNC then allowed 21 unanswered factors in a street loss at Duke, over 500 yards to a now-bad Pitt group and allowed Georgia Tech to win within the last seconds.
The Tar Heels countered that 4-game dropping streak with three consecutive wins: at Virginia, Florida State and towards Wake Forest, the ultimate of which clinched bowl eligibility.
North Carolina was then embarrassed at Boston School final weekend, falling behind 41-7 with out scoring a single offensive landing, till freshman operating again Davion Gause scored twice in rubbish time.
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