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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.
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.
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.
Carolina players Omarion Hampton, Tez Walker and Cedric Gray discuss the Tar Heels’ big victory over 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.
UNC coach Mack Brown talks about how the Tar Heels regained their confidence in their blowout victory over Campbell.
CHAPEL HILL — There were vexing mistakes and head-scratching first-half defensive lapses before Carolina finally lowered the boom on Campbell to produce the expected blowout. UNC scored 52 consecutive points and rode Omarion Hampton’s running and Tez Walker’s big catches to a 59–7 victory on a sun-splashed Saturday afternoon at Kenan Stadium.
Under the ACC’s new football scheduling model with 17 schools beginning next season, UNC will meet every conference school twice every seven years, with its first West Coast league matchup in 2025 against California.
The pattern is eerily similar to last season for North Carolina’s football team: lose two consecutive ACC games, including blowing a lead to Georgia Tech, and fall out of the AP Top 25.
Atlanta. Weekend before Halloween. Full moon. What could go wrong?
Mack Brown pointed the finger at himself after one of the most embarrassing losses in his coaching tenure at North Carolina.
Virginia’s upset of North Carolina at Kenan Stadium on Saturday night assured that the Tar Heels’ stay in the top 10 would be brief.
Watch Coach Mack Brown’s postgame press conference after the Tar Heels’ loss Virginia.
This is why UNC football can’t have nice things. Mack Brown tried to warn us. He tried to warn his team. He told the famous Bill Parcells poison cheese story. He put cheese in the team’s lockers. And his team responded with an absolute stinker of a game, leading to perhaps one of the most disappointing losses in Carolina football history.
CHAPEL HILL — What most figured would be an easy night for No. 10 North Carolina turned into a frustrating evening of survival.For most of the season, these Tar Heels looked like a team that could weather a bad day, but longtime UNC football fans were reminded again that it’s never that easy with this program.
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