It had the same origins as the fight between the Wolverines and Buckeyes, too. Shortly after the final whistle blew in NC State's 35–30 win over North Carolina, a Wolfpack player tried to plant a red-and-black flag at midfield.

“I wanted to do that real bad. It meant a lot.” NC State football left proudly waving, planting the flag after beating No. 18 Tar Heels Vann, a fifth-year defensive end from Cary, a Raleigh suburb, said UNC did not recruit him when he was in high ...

UNC and N.C. State football players got in a fight at midfield after the Wolfpack attempted to plant a flag at Kenan Stadium after its win.

North Carolina State and North Carolina must have taken a cue — clueless? — from Michigan-Ohio State. An all-out melee broke out after the Wolfpack’s 35-30 win over the Tar Heels on Saturday. The flag-planting that started an ugly scene in Columbus ...

A fight broke out Saturday night after N.C. State defeated North Carolina 35-30 in Mack Brown’s final game as the Tar Heels coach. Wolfpack safety DK Kaufman took the “Tuffy” flag from one of the cheerleaders,

The North Carolina Tar Heels’ and NC State Wolfpack’s rivalry reached a boiling point in Saturday’s rivalry football game. Emotions spilled over into a chaotic postgame altercation following the Wolfpack’s narrow 35-30 victory at Kenan Stadium.