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

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

I'm your host Tommy Ashley, joined by Greg Barnes and Ross Martin, and guys, the football

schedule came out on a snowy day in January.

I know Ross has got some sledding to get done.

Didn't get much down here in Johnston County,

but gonna talk a little football anyway.

Greg, I'll go to you first.

You've seen a lot of these schedules come out.

I can't remember it coming out this early, to be honest.

It's usually maybe later in February or so.

But your thoughts when you initially see it, I think Carolina got a fairly good draw, given what they had to work with out of conference.

Yeah, for sure.

And this is actually the first time since I believe 2003 that they have released it

this early.

And I think it was actually the same day back in 2003.

And so it's been 20 years since it's been before them.

But part of that is the ACC is trying to get better. They don't want to go to the process that

the SEC has where you know, Alabama, Tennessee is going to be a certain weekend every year. They don't

want to do that because they want to make sure they can adjust the schedule to get some interesting

matchups as best as they can forecast.

But at the same time, they want to get it out as quick as possible because the fan base,

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