With the presence of Clemson in the conference in their current state, North Carolina will be hard pressed to go into a season as the favorites in the ACC. However in this year and hopefully others in the future, they are a really strong darkhorse pick.
Since they and several other school broke away from the SoCon to form the ACC, UNC have won five conference titles. They’ve won six ACC titles in total, with the most recent coming in 1980 under Dick Crum. Most of them came in the 70s during the Bill Dooley era, during which they won three.