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IC Daily: UNC's '26 FB Schedule - Tougher, But Provides Opportunities

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🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Inside Carolina's senior reporter Greg Barnes joins Tommy Ashley to take an early look at North Carolina's 2026 football schedule released by the ACC on Monday night. As Barnes points out, Bill Belichick and the Heels will face a daunting test beginning with TCU in Ireland in Week 0 and while two early byes soften the overseas travel toll, nine game in nine weeks to end the season present the toughest run for Carolina Football since the 2010 season. **Call to Action:**   **Subscribe:** Follow 'Inside Carolina' wherever you get your podcasts to never miss an episode!   **Review:** Leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to help us reach more Tar Heel fans!   **Visit:** Explore http://www.InsideCarolina.com for breaking news, recruiting updates, and expert commentary on all things UNC sports. This show is brought to you by Inside Carolina, the No. 1 site for UNC sports coverage and community. Visit http://www.InsideCarolina.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Welcome to IC Daily. I'm Tommy Ashley. Greg Barnes, Johnny T-shirt, all the good stuff.

0:05.5

Subscribe to Inside Carolina Tuesday, January 27th. Last night on the ACC Network and grand fashion,

0:14.2

ACC's college football schedule is released. Part of that being North Carolina's, Greg, you've reported on it.

0:20.6

It's been a big discussion on the message board.

0:23.3

Safe to say that in Bill Belichick's second year at North Carolina,

0:27.6

things have ramped up quite a bit in the opponent category.

0:32.5

Yeah, Tommy, and I would say it's about time.

0:37.0

And that has nothing to do with Bill Belichick, but that has everything to do with the quality of schedule that North Carolina has been playing of late.

0:45.2

And granted, you know, it's predominantly just because of the ACC.

0:50.0

And outside of a handful of teams here or there, the ACC just has not been the best conference over the years.

0:59.9

And I know people look at this schedule and they say, well, there's a losing record.

1:05.9

And I get it.

1:07.4

We don't exactly know how this Carolina team is going to look.

1:10.3

We don't know how all these other teams are going to look. We don't know how all these

1:11.9

other teams are going to look that are on the schedule. I think it's way too early to start saying,

1:16.2

yep, for sure that's a loss or for sure that's a win. We just can't do that this time, you know,

1:22.0

and this era that we're in just because you don't have the number of players coming back that you once did.

1:29.4

I mean, it wasn't long ago where you knew 50, 55 players coming back.

1:35.6

And there's not many teams like that anymore.

1:38.3

And so it just makes it a challenge with the guessing game.

1:42.4

But you can just tell that with some of these teams,

1:46.4

they historically and recently have put out good units.

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