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Sam Howell again didn’t play well, but his receivers’ struggles didn’t help. For the second consecutive week, Washington coach Ron Rivera benched the struggling quarterback and got a spark off the bench from former N.C. State quarterback Jacoby Brissett.
Carolina football welcomed 27 newcomers, including 20 early enrollees, on National Signing Day on Wednesday to give the program five consecutive top 25 recruiting classes
Ty Chandler’s career-high 132 yards and a touchdown highlighted Week 15 for UNC alums on a weekend when coaches benched quarterbacks Sam Howell and Mitch Trubisky after ineffective efforts in losses.
With quarterback Drake Maye and linebacker Cedric Gray announcing Monday that they are joining wide receiver Tez Walker in entering the NFL draft and skipping the Duke’s Mayo Bowl, how many other Tar Heels won’t play against West Virginia?
Javonte Williams collected 91 total yards and a touchdown as Denver rolled to a 24–7 road victory over the Los Angeles Chargers, the Broncos’ sixth win in the last seven games.
Mitchell Trubisky put up decent numbers in his first start in nearly a year but was left frustrated after he couldn’t rally Pittsburgh from an 18-point first-half deficit against a bad New England team.
A season with plenty of Tez Walker highlight-reel catches that began with the wide reciver ineligible for four games will be his only one at Carolina. That was confirmed late Thursday night when the Senior Bowl announced that he had accepted an invitation to the game.
On a rough day for Sam Howell in another Washington loss, Mitchell Trubisky finally got on the field for the first time in over a month and was an accurate passer, but had his share of frustrations in Pittsburgh’s loss.
Carolina’s football season will end right where it started, at Charlotte’s Bank of America Stadium. The Tar Heels (8–4) will play in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 27, (ESPN) against West Virginia (8–4), after opening the season with a 31–17 victory over South Carolina in Charlotte.
North Carolina’s bowl destination isn’t nearly as clear as before the conference championship games. Days after seven of 11 media projections ticketed the Tar Heels for the Gator Bowl, the most common prediction (three of 11) has them playing Charlotte on Dec. 27 in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl.
If the majority of the bowl projections are correct, North Carolina will play in the Gator Bowl for the first time since the last season of Coach Mack Brown’s first stint at UNC. Another projection features a tantalizing quarterback matchup.
Week 12 of the NFL season started with a frustrating Thanksgiving Day for quarterback Sam Howell and Washington, but wide receiver Josh Downs and running back Javonte Williams helped their teams earn Sunday victories, running back Michael Carter made his Arizona debut and cornerback Mike Hughes started for Atlanta.
RALEIGH — There was lots of blame to go around for North Carolina’s latest November shortcoming. Coach Mack Brown wanted to accept all of it.
You kind of had a feeling that was coming. UNC really hasn’t been the same team since they started the season 6–0, rose to No. 10 in the polls, and then lost to a bad Virginia squad at home.
Sam Howell bounced back from throwing three interceptions the week before with a better game against Washington’s bitter rival, the Dallas Cowboys, but it still resulted in a loss.
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