From 1988-1997, when Coach Mack Brown reigned over Carolina football, interest in the Tar Heel football program skyrocketed. Games at Kenan Memorial Stadium were almost always sold out and, in a 1997 game against Florida State, 62,000 fans came out – the largest crowd at a regular-season college football game in North Carolina history.
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