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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

And I get it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

And there's not many teams like that anymore.

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

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

they historically and recently have put out good units.

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