Many news outlets have released their pre-season top-25 rankings with the spring season officially completed and the University of North Carolina football program finds itself among those rankings. Across seven different media outlets, the Tar Heels are ranked as high as 16th (by USA Today), and as low as 22nd (The Athletic and Sporting News). (Keeping It Heel)
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