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Turner's Take: Dare to Believe

Larry Fedora is excited. Mitch Trubisky is excited. Elijah Hood, Des Lawrence? They're excited. That much was made clear at Monday's first game-week press conference of the 2016 North Carolina football season. Just four days from now, the Tar Heels kick off the season with the Georgia Bulldogs. It's a tough test for the defending ACC Coastal Division champions, one that will quickly give the program a sense of how far they've come, and indeed how far they have yet to go. No Tar Heel team has defeated an FBS opponent in a season opener since 2000, when Carolina took down Tulsa under Carl Torbush.