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North Carolina Topped Wake Forest 36-34 On Noah Burnette 33 Yard Field Goal Saturday In Winston -Salem, Became Coastal Division Champion

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 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”

North Carolina is now going to prepare to host Georgia Tech Saturday In Chapel Hill.

Kickoff is set for 5:30pm from Kenan Memorial Stadium!

The game is going to be televised on ESPN2!