The Best Modern Football Teams to Come Out of College Basketball Powerhouses

Posted Dec 2, 2018
3. 1997 North Carolina - With six national titles, North Carolina has firmly etched itself as a college basketball elite, but football success has been mostly elusive. One of the bright spots was the Mack Brown era. Brown took the program from a 1–10 laughingstock in 1988 and ’89 and delivered double-digit wins to Chapel Hill a few years later. But the pinnacle came in ’97. (Sports Illustrated)

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