I don't think we'd have made the 4-team CFP if we'd have beaten Clemson that year, we were just too far from the top of the CFP list to have been included. I do think we would have made a 12-team CFP that year (had it existed), even after losing to Clemson.
I tend to agree with you, but it was a serious enough question that lots of ESPN talking heads were opining throughout the week leading up to the Clemson game whether we should get in if we beat Clemson. The only week of my adult lifetime when UNC football was nationally relevant.
Sure, like I said he was poking fun at UNC/Belichick and he never said anything to insinuate that he thinks it will actually be successful in the long run.
I’m not sure, they just kind of make up the rules as they go with that thing but in my mind at the time, i thought we had a decent shot- it would have been between us and 2 loss Stanford.
I think we would only have gotten in had we absolutely pounded Clemson, which I don't think we were built to do. I could have seen either Stanford or still Clemson getting in had we beaten Clemson by only a small amount.
Eh, I was at that game, and while the UNC fans certainly held up their end on a per-capita basis, that crowd was easily 70% Clemson fans.
Yes, too young to have been an adult for Mack 1.0. As for 2010, you can speculate that we would have been a nationally relevant team that year had no shit hit the fan, but we were #18 preseason so it's not like we were predicted to be a real contender (we were higher ranked early in the season a couple times in the Mack 2.0 era, but I don't think we ever got to the point of being "nationally relevant" then).
The polls in 2010 were released after the investigation had gone public and it was known that we had players who would likely have to sit out some amount of time due to either being investigated/found ineligible. That #18 AP ranking includes the uncertainty of the investigation and I'm guessing we would have been ranked higher had the investigation not been occurring.
Yeah, me too. We did our part but it was 70-80% Clemson fans. They locked up their spot early and bought all the tickets.
I don't remember how much discussion there had been as of the polls coming out (like mid-August or so?) of us having players suspended. Certainly the suspensions weren't announced until well after that. But in any event I just don't really consider offseason "buzz" over our potential to be "national relevancy."
The suspensions weren't announced until after the polls were released, but it was known that the investigation was targeting specific players and that those players were in danger of not being able to play.
Not sure this is true. That was the most Bunting-esque performance I’ve seen at Kenan since 2003. Even Fedora’s terrible teams were more competitive than that.
as somebody said earlier on this thread - us old timers gotta get with the program. It’s a brave new world out there. But I don’t have to like it.
That was an all-timer.
Think we had 9 on the field when we gave up the 3rd and 30+ draw for a td by ECU
I think we also had a too many men on the field, not with 12 guys, but with 14.