This is our second look at Rutgers, but just our first look at North Carolina. We're expecting a pretty good matchup in New Jersey tonight. Fairly charged up crowd as they get started in the shadows of the former Trade Centers, seven years after the attack on America. A nice pregame ceremony ...

With the game coming up today I was able to get "The Pulse of the South" to do a Head2Head with me about the game between North Carolina and Rutgers. I took the Heels, leaving him to talk about the Scarlet Knights. The questions were the same to both and hopefully both of us made our points for why our team should win. Just a side note, since I do a blog about Syracuse as well, and there I ...

Just a couple of days away from the second game of the season, I was able to get a hold of "The Pulse of the South" to ask him about what he sees in the North Carolina/Rutgers match up. This interview is all about football, and I am going to ask the tough questions, knowing that he will answer them all. So, without any more interruptions here is the interview: A.E.M. In their first game ...

As it is becoming the weekly thing to do here on "The Fifth Corner", the 1 st thing to do when thinking about next week's opponent is "First Thoughts" , where I give random tidbits about what I think of the game coming up. It is all about on the field and off the field thoughts, maybe about players, maybe about positions, maybe about UNC, maybe about the opponents. So, let's get it going with ...

Can you feel the weight come off your back? It is that weight that was lasting for 20 games without a road victory outside of the state of North Carolina. Or the weight that came from never having a 2-0 record since 2000. Yes, a weight has been lifted from this team and from the coaching ...

It's difficult to pinpoint exactly when the game turned against Rutgers on Thursday ... no wait, here it is. Perhaps ESPN's decision to scan the crowd following Mike Teel's badly-thrown interception was not wise. But this is why we love live TV. If you'd like to savor the moment in video, it ...

If there’s one thing we can all learn from this, it’s that you don’t show crowd shots of fans of the home team following an interception by their quarterback. Either that, or certain Rutgers fans are pretty classless. If there’s a downside (and upside?) to live ...

Since "Da beat of N.Y." is the man that I use for all of his experience regarding the Big East I figured that a couple of questions about Rutgers could be worthwhile as the Heels await to play the Scarlet Knights. So, here we go, with getting to know something more about Rutgers: A.E.M.  ...

Tonight, when North Carolina will play Rutgers in Piscataway, New Jersey, a lot more than a win or a loss are at stake. The Tar Heels haven't won outside of the state of North Carolina in their last twenty tries, with their last victory going back to October 2002. Under head coach Butch ...

EXTRA LARGE North Carolina vs. Rutgers, ESPN, 7 p.m. Nothing quite qualifies for the XXL category today (maybe tonight’s the night to, uh, check in with the family? Just an idea ... ), but there is some live college football. Tonight’s game features an interesting match-up of head coaches Butch Davis (UNC) and Greg Schiano (Rutgers), both of whom were at ...

BetUs Current Line: Rutgers - 5 , Total 46.5 Two teams looking for the national spotlight hook up on Thursday night as Rutgers hosts North Carolina.  The Tar Heels are looking for a rebirth under head coach Butch Davis while Rutgers wants to stay on the national stage with head coach Greg Schiano.  Davis and Schiano are good friends as Schiano was the defensive coordinator under ...

When blogging online meets up in sports in real life. Yes, the fun of blogging is that if you are lucky enough sooner or later you make some great friends. And while they are mostly online, because this is the Y2K era, and you might never meet any of them, they are still people you have made a sort of bond with. Be it that you blog about the same team, or maybe that you have the same ...

Butch Davis has made his statement last night against the Rutgers Knight, and the statement was North Carolina will be a hard test for anyone who plays them in the ACC. Last Davis North Carolina tore a new one into Rutgers last night. Led by the combination of Sopmore Quarterback T.J. Yates ...

Proposed; counter-proposed. UNC 44, Rutgers 12. Proposed: Rutgers opened as a Vegas favorite with back-to-back home games and lost by a combined score of 68-19. North Carolina had not won an out-of-state road game in 20 tries, a streak dating back to Oct. 5, 2002, and ...

The wine sure must taste sweet today in Chapel Hill. Not only did North Carolina spank Rutgers in New Jersey 44-12 claiming their first road win in six years, they also scored one for their conference. Now it appears it is the Big East who sits at the bottom of the BCS auto-bid totem-pole. ...

Tonight’s college co-ed matchup features the North Carolina Tar Heels vs the state college of New Jersey (-6). North Carolina v Rutgers Scarlet Knights

And I’m not just saying that because you fans voted the North Carolina A&T Aggies and Winston-Salem State Rams’ ‘Battle of I-40′ as the game of the week. The Aggies are showing that they have the talent and the coaching acumen to retake their place as a contender in the MEAC conference. “You can write that down, we are back,” said offensive lineman ...

I noted last night that Rutgers is a mess, and I’ve heard from a couple of Rutgers fans today who say that the mood is grim today for football fans in New Jersey. And nothing better sums up the mood of those fans than this guy, spotted by our buddy Larry ...

Many might consider Missouri’s Jeremy Maclin as the biggest all-purpose weapon in the country, but it looks like North Carolina senior receiver/returner Brandon Tate is trying to give him a serious run for his money. In North Carolina ’s 44-12 road rout of Rutgers last night, Tate had ...

Talk about tables turning. Greg Schiano and Rutgers were on the rise over the past few years. North Carolina football was so poor the Tar Heels had not won a game outside the state since 2002. Until Thursday. Under Butch Davis, the revitalized Heels put the stomp to the choppin’-wood ...