The UNC football season is over following an embarrassing loss to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. The rest is just formality.
Give the Tar Heels credit; when they lose, they do it in grand fashion.
After beginning the season with a top-10 ranking and hopes of a 2022 College Football Playoff appearance, the Tar Heels crashed and burned in their opening game against the Virginia Tech Hokies in Blacksburg. That game, who they lost to, and the way they lost it, had most of us thinking that those lofty expectations of postseason glory were all but gone, as were any hopes of Sam Howell making good on all of that preseason hype that made him an early favorite in the Heisman Trophy race.