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UNC Football: Pittsburgh Game Preview

Here we go, on the quest to maintain one of the most bizarre active streaks for Carolina football: A six-game winning streak against Pat Narduzzi’s Pittsburgh Panthers, regardless of how good each team has been the rest of those seasons. This year, they’re pretty evenly matched, at least on paper: Pitt comes in with a better record, 6-3 to UNC’s 4-5, but Bill Connelly’s SP+ has UNC at 49th in the country and Pitt at 50th, and nearly all of both teams’ games have been decided by one possession: just one of UNC’s games, its win against Georgia Tech, had a margin bigger than 7, while Pittsburgh has 10-point wins against Ohio and Georgia Tech as well as a 16-point loss to Virginia on its resume.