UNC vs. NCCU: Three Things to Watch

If you have a game that you should win, why schedule it at all?

The fact is that Carolina has had too few of these games at this point in the season the last few years. The holdover of contracts and long-term deals from the Larry Fedora era meant you had a lot of bigger games up front, and you tried the SEC model of scheduling a team like NCCU very late in the year. Mack Brown has slowly been eating away at that, and this season is the first one since he’s been back where the schedule looks more like how he’d want to do it—you knock out all of your non-conference games with a mix of opponents like NCCU and Minnesota before you kick into the conference season.

With the winner of the conference…