North Carolina has a negative conference scoring margin and leads the ACC Coastal Division. It’s a distinction shared with MAC East co-leader Akron and not a single one of the remaining 16 divisions and conferences.
Yet the Tar Heels are FPI’s prohibitive favorite to repeat as division champions.
Why? Because Coastal.
The division has been crazy during the past three weeks, and it’s hard to predict just who will emerge from the scrum as the last team standing. The Tar Heels are the FPI favorite and only a 3-1 Coastal team, but they can’t make it back to the ACC championship game without help.