Video: The Throwback Podcast - UNC Football Crushes Clemson in '96

Posted Jul 16, 2021
On the second installment of the second season of "The Throwback" podcast, the Inside Carolina crew jumps in the time machine and goes back to August 31, 1996. While the temperature in Chapel Hill at kickoff time was blazing, perhaps nothing was quite as hot as Mack Brown's defense in UNC's 45-0 demolition of Clemson.

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