Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Welcome to The Dean’s List! The weekly segment that brings readers hot takes, freezing cold takes, and everything in between from the world of Carolina athletics.
This Saturday the North Carolina Tar Heels and the Duke Blue Devils will clash as unranked teams for the first time since 1960. To give an idea of how long ago that was, RCA released the very first consumer-available color TV in just four years prior, and the average cost of a new house was $12,000. Perhaps the most disgusting tidbit from 1960 is that the cost of a gallon of gas was about 25 cents. Needless to say, this unranked rivalry game feels like a weird leftover from 2020 that nobody asked…
