The Factor Five Five Factor Preview is back for another season of incredibly wrong predictions and psychological projection. We begin, appropriately, with the first FBS game of the season: UNC vs. South Carolina.
NEBULOUS STATISTICAL COMPARISONS OF DUBIOUS VALIDITY
Unlike other schools (hello, University of Florida!), South Carolina and UNC do a fairly decent job of scheduling schools from power conferences in Week 1; since 1995, the Gamecocks have opened with such an opponent nine times, and the Tar Heels have done so ten times. South Carolina, however, is much better at actually winning those games.