UNC still looking for opponents

CHAPEL HILL — North Carolina may have cancelled its home-and-home series with Colorado more than a year ago, but it sounds as it Butch Davis is still looking for quality opponents. He said Wednesday that last spring, the school had sent letters to Penn State, Texas A&M — and he wasn’t sure about Oklahoma — asking if they had any interest in home-and-home series in the future. “We tried to find some high profile games to fill the schedule,’’ he said. The Tar Heels still have one non-conference opening next year (a game they were supposed to play against the Buffaloes), and then have full schedules until 2012, according to the UNC website. McNeese State replaced the Colorado game this season. Davis said the decision to cancel the series with the Buffaloes “kind of comes from my background at Miami.” At one time, he said, Miami... [read full story]