A Finish for The Ages

Before we go any further this morning I want all Tar Heel fans to confess. Most of you were so furious with the end of regulation that you turned the TV off and didn't even see the overtime. Luckily for me I went to my computer to look up Shaun Draughn stats on the game and when I came back to flip over to the U Conn basketball game Carolina was lining up to kick a field goal.

I said yesterday here that on paper this was going to be a good game and as it turns out and Instant Classic. Those of you having turned off your TV and went to bed at the end of the game Carolina wins in double overtime 30-27 despite one of the worse coaching job of Butch Davis's career the last minute.

During the stoppage of play for the review of whether Carolina actually caught the ball or not in front of the Carolina bench Davis argued the entire review that Carolina had already snapped the ball and they could not have a review. To me sitting at home I thinking to myself that he knows the ball was not caught and they are going to lose this review. I'm yelling at the TV to get his next play on the field and ready to go. I never saw any evidence that the ball was not caught and all I saw was Davis and company arguing instead of getting ready for the next play and they certainly looked unprepared those last plays.

Finally while shaking hands the officials who had seemed to be skating on ice and about to fall down all night asked for a review and Carolina lives. What in the world was Carolina changing player on that last play when all they needed was to spike the ball?

Tarboro's Shaun Draughn playing for the last time in a Carolina uniform ran 23 times for 160 yards and a 58 yard touchdown run in the first quarter. As Hazel use to say on TV Carolina wins a doozy 30-27 in double overtime.

Former Rocky Mount football player Travis Cobb finished his college career in style as he returned five kickoffs for 169 yards the longest being for 64 yards. He also caught one pass for 15 yards but his Wildcats of Arizona lost in the Alamo Bowl big.

Northern Nash's Steven Baker and Rocky Mount's Jacoby(Coby)Jenkins played in the Military Bowl in Washington DC for the Pirates of ECU.

You got to give Carolina credit they go to Nashville and beat Tennessee in a game that had 70,000 Tennessee fans and one little section of Carolina fans. The Vols lose in Nashville for the first time since 1984.