Lamar Jackson strikes a pose with fans after his monster game at North Carolina. This comes a week after Jackson carried the Cardinals (2-0, 1-0 ACC) to a tighter-than-expected defeat of Purdue. It also came a few days after North Carolina linebacker Andre Smith insisted to reporters that Jackson wouldn’t be an issue. Saturday, East Carolina lost, 56-20, at West Virginia after trailing 49-3 at the break and doesn’t look like a good bet to even match last year’s win total. * Former Big East schools in the Northeast: So who had the cruddier day among the schools who were once described as “Eastern independents”?

Source: Washington Post September 10, 2017 00:23 UTC