North Carolina Tar Heels Articles
Gonzaga entered the 2021 NCAA Tournament with an opportunity to make history by going undefeated but the heavy favorites fell to Baylor in the national championship game. As great a season as the Bulldogs had up to that point, they will always be...
Athlon Sports
5 days ago
After two seasons that have sparked immense hope for the future, North Carolina’s administration extended head football coach Mack Brown's contract through the 2025 season. What has occurred on the field the past two seasons is only part...
Jon Kinne
2 weeks ago
It's the fourth all-time meeting between North Carolina and Wisconsin on Friday night in Indianapolis, as two of college basketball's blue bloods try to pay off mediocre seasons with a first-round victory. These two played a very memorable...
Matt Josephs
3 weeks ago
Class of 2020 signee Tony Grimes was North Carolina's first consensus five-star football recruit since Donte Paige-Moss selected the Tar Heels in 2009, and it didn't take the Virginia Beach native long to make an impact. As a freshman,...
Jon Kinne
1 month ago
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, college football’s 2020 season was unusual in many ways. Conferences starting play at different times, canceled games, bowl matchups shifted to different locations, and more uncertainty as to who on the roster...
Steven Lassan
1 month ago
The countdown to the 2021 college football season is already underway, as spring practices and position battles for spots on the depth chart for all 130 teams across the nation are already in progress in offseason workouts. As always, one of the...
Steven Lassan
1 month ago
The ACC was one of two Power 5 conferences — along with the Big 12 — that played non-conference games in 2020. But with the exception of the games against upstart Liberty played by Syracuse, Virginia Tech, and NC State, the matchups...
Jon Kinne
1 month ago
It’s never too early to think about next season, so with college football’s 2020 season complete after Alabama's win in the national championship, Athlon Sports is here with its way-too-early top 25 preseason rankings...
Steven Lassan
1 month ago
College football’s 2020-21 coaching carousel featured 15 changes, including moves at Texas, Auburn, UCF, South Carolina and Illinois. With the carousel completed and all 15 jobs filled, it's time to rank and grade the new hires...
Steven Lassan
1 month ago
College football’s 2021 season officially kicks off on Saturday, Aug. 28 with a handful of matchups in Week 0. The schedule for that opening weekend could be tweaked, but Hawaii at UCLA and Nebraska at Illinois are the early highlights...
Steven Lassan
1 month ago
In the first two seasons of Mack Brown's return to Chapel Hill, the North Carolina Tar Heels are a combined 15-10, which is identical to what Larry Fedora posted in his first two years on the job. But the two situations are not identical....
Jon Kinne
1 month ago
Ranking the college football rosters for the 2021 season provides a unique window into the talent level for all teams and how that compares to win totals, conference championships, and success on a national level. Recruiting is the foundation for...
Steven Lassan
1 month ago
Here's the North Carolina football schedule with a full list of the Tar Heels' 2021 opponents, game locations, with game times, TV channels coming as they're announced. Updated results with final scores will be added throughout the...
Athlon Sports
1 month ago
If there's one word that can be used to describe the college football quarterback landscape, it's something that coaches and fans alike don't want to see from their signal-caller — turnover. Yet for the fourth straight season,...
Mark Ross
1 month ago
Over the past decade, the Atlantic has been the dominant division of the ACC. Clemson has been king for several years and before the Tigers' arrival at the top, Florida State ruled the roost. Since Virginia Tech's conference title in 2010...
Jon Kinne
2 months ago
College football’s 2021 National Signing Day is officially in the books. Alabama signed the best class in modern recruiting history, with Ohio State, Georgia, Clemson, Oregon, LSU, USC and Texas A&M rounding out the next tier of top...
Steven Lassan
2 months ago
The 2020 college football season featured 24 new coaches at FBS programs, and with the year completed, it's time to grade and rank the hires. UTSA's Jeff Traylor, Rutgers' Greg Schiano, Missouri's Eli Drinkwitz and Ole Miss'...
Steven Lassan
2 months ago
Midway through the summer, the lingering COVID-19 pandemic threatened the 2020 college football season. The uncertainty of the offseason became a season of peculiarity, with some leagues starting in September and others in November. Games were...
Kyle Kensing
2 months ago
The ACC continued a busy week of college football news with the release of its 2021 schedule on Thursday. Like all other conferences, the ACC is planning on a normal 2021 slate after a chaotic and unusual '20 campaign due to the COVID-19...
Steven Lassan
2 months ago
It wasn't the best of bowl seasons for the ACC. Six conference teams played in the postseason and all six ended the year with a loss, including two blowout defeats in the College Football Playoff.
Still, with North Carolina making the...
Jon Kinne
2 months ago
The start of college football's 2021 season is still months away, but it's never too early to flip the calendar to next fall and start thinking about the games on tap. Luckily for college football fans, the 2021 calendar is loaded with...
Steven Lassan
2 months ago
It's been said ad nauseam in the past several months, but 2020 was an odd year in college football. That's an understatement in the context of the most newsworthy development in the year: Notre Dame played in the ACC!
OK, so the...
Kyle Kensing
2 months ago
DeVonta Smith ended a three-decade drought for wide receivers when he won the Heisman Trophy in 2020. Smith was also just the third non-quarterback to win the honor since 2000. He caught 117 passes for 1,856 yards and 23 touchdowns — all of...
Nicholas Ian Allen
2 months ago
After a college football season that was very different, we now enter a postseason that will be unique as well. Players are entering the transfer portal in record numbers and some players that opted out for 2020 are planning on returning for 2021...
Jon Kinne
2 months ago
The early-entry deadline for the 2021 NFL Draft officially passed on Monday, Jan. 18. Counting seniors who passed on an extra year of eligibility and underclassmen entering early, more than 400 players declared for the next level. Ohio State...
Steven Lassan
2 months ago
