13th Ranked North Carolina Is Hosting Georgia Tech Tonight In Chapel Hill
13th ranked North Carolina is hosting Georgia Tech tonight in Chapel Hill
North Carolina comes into the game with Georgia Tech a record 9-1 6-0 in the Coastal Division Of Atlantic Coast Conference haven become Coastal Division Champion as North Carolina topped Wake Forest 36-34 on Noah Burnette 33 yard field goal Saturday in Winston-Salem, became Coastal Division Champion.
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Saturday was the final time North Carolina would become Coastal Division Champion as the Atlantic Coast Conference won’t have divisions in football much longer as the Atlantic Coast Conference became the latest conference to get rid of divisions in favor of a new scheduling format Starting in 2023, the league announced it will move to a 3-5-5 format, in which each team has three permanent rivalry games played annually, with the other 10 opponents rotating on an every-other-year basis.
The plans for a shift back to a single-division format gained steam during the league's spring meetings in May, with the ACC hoping to improve its TV inventory of marquee games and set up a league championship game that would include its two best teams annually. Interestingly, the new format would not have altered the teams playing in the ACC title game in seven of the past eight years.
“According to David M. Hale’s article on espnapp”
Following North Carolina becoming Coastal Division Champion for final time North Carolina Head Coach Mack Brown had this to say!
They've really accomplished some amazing things and still have some things left,"I've talked to them for a couple of weeks about not talking about the Coastal (scenarios). I didn't want to back in.
"I didn't want somebody to have to lose. I didn't want them looking at somebody losing. I wanted us to win, and the guys did that.
“According to article on goheels.com”
Georgia Tech comes into the game with a record 4-6 haven finished fifth in the Coastal Division standings with a record of 3-4 haven lost to Miami 35-14 in Atlanta Georgia Saturday where offensively Georgia Tech only scored pair of touchdowns as Nate McCollum caught 9 yard pass from Zach Pyron , Gavin Stewart kicked extra point in the 2nd quarter and they didn’t score again until 4th quarter when Jamie Felix caught 7 yard pass from Zach Gibson , Gavin Stewart kicked extra point.
“According to espnapp”
Kick off is set for 5:30pm from Kenan Memorial Stadium!
The game is going to be televised on ESPN2!