It’s been a turbulent Thanksgiving week for the North Carolina Tar Heels, who fired longtime head football coach Mack Brown.
Despite Brown’s shooting, UNC (6-5, 3-4 ACC) has one last challenger to prepare for under Brown: in-state competing NC State.
North Carolina owns a enormous benefit (60-39-4) in its all-time series versus the Wolfpack (5-6, 2-5 ACC), however the competition hasactually endedupbeing one-sided in current years. NC State won 2021’s match through a late-game resurgence in Raleigh, 2022’s edition in double-overtime, then in 2023 by a 39-20 mark.
A Tar Heels success would makesure them boasting rights for years to come, as it would reject State bowl eligibility.
Regardless of what takesplace Saturday in Chapel Hill, we understand UNC will be playing in some fresh, all-Carolina Blue uniforms versus its disliked competitors.
2023’s edition of UNC-NC State wasn’t much of a fight, with State leaping out to a