Sam Howell threw for three touchdowns, including a huge late one to former UNC teammate Dyami Brown, and produced his fourth game with at least 300 yards this season. It was in a losing effort, but the second-year pro showed why he is the Washington Commanders’ franchise quarterback with another impressive effort.
Category: Football
Carolina moves up in both national football polls
By R.L. Bynum Carolina moved up two spots to No. 22 in the AP Top 25 after the Tar Heels’ … More
Good, Bad and Ugly Report: Duke
I’ve written this column (or a version of it) for over a decade. Sometimes, it writes itself, sometimes there’s a search to put things in the right slots, and sometimes there’s a wait until the clock hits zero to have it come together. And sometimes there is a Saturday night.
Watch: UNC postgame videos with Brown, Maye, Nesbit, Rucker and Gray
CHAPEL HILL — Hear what Coach Mack Brown and players Drake Maye, Bryson Nesbit, Kaimon Rucker and Cedric Gray had to say after No. 24 North Carolina’s homecoming game with Duke on Saturday night.
Carolina wins wild double-overtime thriller over Duke
CHAPEL HILL — After blowing a double-digit fourth-quarter lead for the third consecutive ACC game, Carolina put together the big late drive that it couldn’t pull off against Virginia or Georgia Tech — only to blow the lead again. But Noah Burnette, who kept the No. 24 Tar Heels in the lead much of the way, wouldn’t let their homecoming game slip away.
ACC Network shows coming to UNC campus this week
The ACC Network will bring two shows to the Carolina campus this week ahead of televising No. 24 North Carolina’s football game at 8 p.m. Saturday against rival Duke.
Tar Heels in NFL: Howell rebounds from big interception, rallies Washington to victory
Sam Howell had more of an up-and-down game than a week earlier when he had a career day, but the important difference for Washington was that it was a victory.
Carolina back in AP Top 25 football poll, moves up in Coaches Poll
Carolina’s blowout home victory over Campbell was enough to move the Tar Heels up in the Coaches Poll and return to the AP Top 25. UNC (7–2, 3–2 ACC), which pummeled the Camels 59–7 on Saturday, moved up two spots to No. 23 in the Coaches Poll and returned to the AP poll at No. 24.
Watch: UNC players Hampton, Walker and Gray press conference
Carolina players Omarion Hampton, Tez Walker and Cedric Gray discuss the Tar Heels’ big victory over Campbell.
Good, Bad and Ugly Report: Campbell
A championship-winning coach once told me, “It’s hard to get a team up for every game on the schedule.” It’s likely even harder when you’re facing an FCS team while trying to wash the bitter taste of two disappointing defeats out of your mouth.