Welcome to another podcast by Inside Carolina.com, the independent voice of UNC Sports,

your home for Tar Heel football, basketball, and recruiting.

And I'm your host, Tommy Ashley, joined by Jason Staples and Greg Barnes.

And Greg, I'll go to you first.

Clearly, many things on the University of North Carolina's plate as we record this podcast,

plenty on your plate.

But North Carolina hosts Virginia in a football game that will be played on Saturday at 3.30 in Keenan Stadium.

Football.

Football.

What, I mean, with late night with Roy tomorrow, the NCAA stuff tomorrow,

this football game, while not insignificant,

just doesn't seem very significant in the grand scheme

for the University of North Carolina

athletic program.

Your take on that.

Yeah, I think the fact that the team is one in six, or one in five at this point in time,

speaks to that.

Typically, if you're five and one,

maybe this is something that the fan base can rally around along with late night.

But the fact that this is, you know, Virginia is a team that I think all of us and most people thought,

it was probably going to be a win for North Carolina before the season started.

And then you get to game week, and Virginia opens as a three and a half point favorite,

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