This weekend at Kenan Stadium will be an occasion that hasn’t come around every year for North Carolina Tar Heels football. It could’ve been an even bigger deal had Miami not lost to Georgia Tech in inexplicable circumstances, but when the Hurricanes come to Chapel Hill, it’ll be a battle of ranked teams.
In the past decade or so, it hasn’t been unheard of for the Tar Heels to be ranked themselves, but there have been other years where they haven’t come close to it. Beyond that, in year where they have been good, they haven’t necessarily always managed to get to host another Top 25 team at a time when both teams have been in the poll.