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2024 North Carolina Tar Heels College Football Betting

Overall, Mack Brown’s second coming as head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels has been an unqualified success. Brown has produced five bowl games in five seasons and led the Tar Heels to a final ranking of 18th in 2020. Yet there is a sense of unfulfillment among the North Carolina faithful. Brown’s offense helped former QBs Sam Howell and Drake Maye set records. But North Carolina left the back door open far too often with a defense that ranked among the worst in college football. Defensive coordinator Gene Chizik was sent packing after a putrid 2023 performance. But Maye is off to the NFL and the QB situation will be settled in August campo. Thus, there is a lot of uncertainty regarding the Tar Heels in 2024.

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North Carolina’s favorable schedule and capable offense mean the Tar Heels should be bowl eligible. Reaching loftier goals will require new coordinator Geoff Collins to pay instant dividends with the defense. Running back Omarion Hampton returns as one of the best in college football, but coach Mack Brown's offense left spring with an unsettled quarterback battle and lost big-play receiver Tez Walker to the NFL.

The quarterback competition to replace Drake Maye could extend until just prior to the season opener when Carolina travels to Minnesota. Conner Harrell moved up the depth chart the traditional way; he redshirted in 2022 and then appeared in five games in 2023, starting the Duke’s Mayo Bowl against West Virginia after Maye opted out. Harrell flashed some potential in that game but also threw a pair of interceptions. His competition for the QB spot is well-traveled SEC transfer Max Johnson, who has spent time at both LSU and Texas A&M and has already started 22 games in his college career. Former Tar Heels' signal-caller Jacolby Criswell also returned to Chapel Hill after one season at Arkansas this spring.

Whoever wins the job will have the luxury of handing off to Omarion Hampton, who was the Heels’ most important retention in the transfer market. Hampton rushed for 1,504 yards and 15 touchdowns last season and was a finalist for the Doak Walker Award. Carolina has depth at the position with USC transfer Darwin Barlow.

Carolina’s defense simply wasn’t good enough last year. To fix things, head coach Mack Brown parted ways with longtime friend Gene Chizik and hired Geoff Collins as defensive coordinator. The former Georgia Tech head coach brings a different kind of energy to a group that had been overwhelmed with complicated terminology and assignments.

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Although North Carolina is the ultimate basketball school, it has an underrated football program. The Tar Heels have nine conference championships and two division titles. North Carolina is a regular on the bowl circuit. However, its last ACC championship was in 1980. Pro Football Hall of Fame members Lawrence Taylor and Chris Hanburger played for UNC.

North Carolina head coach Mack Brown is on his second tour of duty. Brown is the winningest coach in North Carolina history and has led the Tar Heels to a school record ten bowl appearances. In his first tour of duty, Brown led the Tar Heels to four Top 20 final finishes with three double-digit win seasons and a final ranking of 6th in 1997. After winning a national championship at Texas and doing ESPN TV work, Brown returned to take over a program that went 2-9 the season before his arrival. Brown has led the Tar Heels to bowl games every season since taking command in 2019. In 2020, the Tar Heels finished 13th in the final CFP rankings.

While Brown has had prolific offenses in his second tour of duty, he has yet to find a defense to make the team complete.

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