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Tar Heel Offense Key To State Showdown

Rivers, McLendon will torment UNC defense

Game and time:

Site: Kenan Stadium.

TV/Radio: Jefferson-Pilot Sports will televise the game. The Tar Heel Sports Network will provide live radio coverage; its flagship station is WCHL 1360-AM.

Records: N.C. State is 6-0, 1-0 in the ACC. North Carolina is 2-3, 0-1.

Series: North Carolina leads 60-25-6.

Personnel update: N.C. State -- None reported. North Carolina -- DT Eric Davis (knee) out for season; DE Issac Mooring (hand) out.

The key matchup: With all the new talk of Philip Rivers for the Heisman and the continued problems of the North Carolina secondary, N.C. State could get up to its 45 points per game average just by staying in the air.

But they don't have to. And that's what must have UNC worried.

True freshman tailback T.A. McLendon has built on his impressive high school r

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