Tar Heels reeled into Wake Forest’s Friday habit

Posted Sep 13, 2019
Wake Forest has become a regular on the Friday night football docket. That’s among the fallouts in the new landscape of college football. The Demon Deacons are set to play on their third consecutive Friday night when they face visiting North Carolina in Winston-Salem. College football coaches aren’t big fans, at least publicly, of playing Friday games. (Burlington Times News)

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