By Chatham Journal staff Seaforth and Chatham Central retained the top two places in the Chatham County high school football power rankings after extending their combined record to 13-1, but the week’s most consequential result belonged to Northwood. One week…
By The Tobacco Road Scribe Chapel Hill, NC – For a few rain-soaked minutes Saturday afternoon, North Carolina had No. 3 Notre Dame exactly where it wanted the Fighting Irish. The Tar Heels had erased most of a 14-point deficit.…
By Chatham Journal staff 1. Seaforth Hawks – 4-1 Previous ranking: No. 1Movement: –Week’s result: Defeated North Moore, 50-0 Seaforth delivered the week’s most dominant performance, scoring 50 points and recording its second shutout of the season. The result also…
By The Tobacco Road Scribe Winston-Salem, NC – No. 5 Miami spent most of Friday evening showing why it entered the season as an Atlantic Coast Conference championship favorite. Then Wake Forest spent the closing stages showing why the Hurricanes’…
By Gene Galin Bear Creek, NC – On a late-summer practice field at Chatham Central High School, roughly three dozen young players were learning how to line up, listen for a call and move together. Some had arrived only weeks…
By Chatham Journal Staff Pittsboro, NC – Seaforth and Jordan-Matthews opened the 2026 high school football season with convincing home victories Thursday night, while Northwood suffered a difficult loss against a potent Harnett Central offense. Chatham Central did not take…
Pittsboro, NC – The list of changes to high school football rules is relatively short this season, but the consequences could be substantial for North Carolina teams. During a preseason briefing at the Jack Shaner Football Jamboree at Northwood High…
By The Tobacco Road Scribe Chapel Hill, NC – Bill Belichick opened North Carolina’s 2026 preseason training camp with none of the sweeping promises, championship predictions or manufactured enthusiasm that often accompany the start of a college football season. His…
By Gene Galin Charlotte, NC — North Carolina’s four Atlantic Coast Conference football programs will enter the 2026 season separated by geography, institutional identity and recent results, but connected by one defining challenge: surviving a sport in which quarterbacks, star…
Charlotte, NC – The Atlantic Coast Conference college football season begins in Charlotte as the ACC welcomes all 17 head coaches and more than 50 of the league’s top student-athletes to the 2026 ACC Kickoff, set for July 15-17 at…