Mack Brown and the UNC football team enter this upcoming 2022 season with not a lot of pressure. It’s the complete opposite of last year when the Tar Heels were a Top 10 team and had high expectations.
This year, the Tar Heels are entering a season in which there aren’t many expectations and instead they have some questions to answer on both sides of the football. But as we inch closer to the Summer and the new season in the Fall, CBS Sports Tom Fornelli released his power five head coach power rankings.
The good news is that Brown is still in the Top 25 but he fell from last year’s ranking of No. 12 to No. 20 this year. Here is what Fornelli said about Brown:
Mack Brown: Mack nearly cracked the top 10 last season after leading North Carolina to the Orange Bowl, but the 2021 season was a disappointment. The Heels finished 6-7 and went 3-5 in the ACC. While Brown is one of the few active coaches with a national title to his name, 2005 is a long time ago in the minds of our voters. Plus, since the 2010 season at Texas, Brown’s teams have gone 51-38. That’s good enough to get you ranked here, but you’re not going to sniff the top 10 with a record like that. 2021 rank: 12 (-8)
Brown did finish ahead of N.C. State’s Dave Doeren but is behind Miami’s Mario Cristobal, Wake Forest’s Dave Clawson, and Clemson’s Dabo Swinney for Atlantic Coast Conference coaches on the list.
This will be a very important year for Brown and the Tar Heels but there’s no doubt he still has it coaching-wise. He just needs to prove it again.
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