CHAPEL HILL
When the governor says to stay home, it’s probably a good idea to stay home. Or it would have been, anyway.
The ACC and its schools decided Thursday that football would be played in North Carolina despite the statewide state of emergency Gov. Pat McCrory declared that day in anticipation of the arrival of Hurricane Matthew, which duly arrived Saturday with a vengeance.
At Carter-Finley Stadium, N.C. State and Notre Dame made a mockery of football through no fault of their own, slipping and sliding around a waterlogged field, the game delayed at halftime by a lightning threat.