North Carolina dropped a tough regular-season finale on Saturday at home in Kenan Stadium against NC State during rivalry weekend.
The game went down to the last seconds as Hollywood Smothers ran in a game-winning touchdown after Omarion Hampton broke what was thought to be a game-winning touchdown just seconds prior.
After the game had ended, NC State players attempted to plant their flag at midfield on the UNC logo. Several Tar Heels players took exception to that, grabbing the flag, throwing it before it could be planted, and inciting a brawl.
The ACC announced that it will give “the maximum fine according to its bylaws to both institutions.”
The commissioner of the ACC weighed in on the matter to Yahoo Sports.
We have to collectively come together. We can do things independently as conferences, but we need to all come together, and our approach must be aggressive. This is unacceptable. It doesn’t appear that any suspensions will result from Saturday’s incident with North Carolina and NC State.
This was not a stand-alone incident, however, as there were a handful of brawls on rivalry weekend led by the Ohio State and Michigan sidelines and included multiple others as well.
For the most part, they were all for the same incident as well, Away rival wins trying to plant their flag at the mid-field logo of the home team.
It is yet to be seen what will come of these incidents this weekend, though, the Big Ten did fine both Ohio State and Michigan $100,000 each, one of the largest for the offense.
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