Chansky’s Notebook: Back And Forth

Posted Oct 11, 2024
UNC led 13-10 in 1990 before the Jackets kicked a field goal to tie and go on to win one of two national championships awarded then. And Mack Brown often reminds us, "They tied us, we didn’t tie them" in his first winning season at UNC with a 6-4-1 record and had to decline a bowl bid when then-Chancellor Paul Hardin said it conflicted with final exams. (Chapelboro.com)

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