News & Observer · Sep 19, 2016
What we've learned about UNC after three games
CHAPEL HILL
The first quarter is over for North Carolina. Three games have come and gone, and already the Tar Heels are one-fourth of their way through the regular season.
The Tar Heels hope it lasts several weeks longer. Before the season began, Larry Fedora, the UNC coach, said he was preparing his team to play 15 games: 12 in the regular season, one in the ACC championship game, and two more in the College Football Playoff.
The season-opening defeat against Georgia damaged UNC's playoff hopes but that, Fedora said, was never part of his team's goals, anyway. What are those goals? To win the Coastal Division, win the ACC and win the last game of the season.