When you have one coach who doesn’t want to hate a rival, while on the other side the coach calls their opponent pieces of excrement, you have the result that you got on Saturday Night.
In short, for the third year in a row the Wolfpack beat the Tar Heels. For the third year in a row the season ended in an embarrassing fashion. For the third season in a row the folks over in Raleigh get to bask that while the two programs are in similar places — stuck in mediocrity and never really sniffing the College Football Playoffs — they can do it with a coach that manages to get more out of less than the coach who has had an NFL-caliber starting quarterback all five years he’s been back to UNC.