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2016 UNC football schedule: thoughts and analysis

CHAPEL HILL

North Carolina will begin the 2016 regular season with a nationally-televised game against Georgia in Atlanta and end it with a Friday game against rival N.C. State. In between there are no shortage of challenges for the Tar Heels.

Let’s get to it. Some thoughts and analysis after the release on Tuesday of UNC’s football schedule:

On paper this looks like a far more difficult schedule than UNC faced a season ago. There’s a “neutral-site” game against Georgia at the Chick-fil-A Kickoff game in Atlanta, about an hour away from Georgia’s campus.