The Tar Heels have two and a half games remaining on their schedule. This weekend’s tilt against Boston College, then an end-of-November matchup with the team from Raleigh to cap the regular season—that’s two. Then, sometime in December, a trip to a mid-tier bowl that will doubtlessly be played without either team at full strength—that’s the half game.
There are vanishingly few opportunities to watch this iteration of Tar Heel football, for better or worse. Two more regular season games, the remainder of a schedule that looked promising for Carolina in the first season of the newly expanded ACC, turned to a smoking crater by a four-game skid spanning the middle of the season and an 0-3 start to conference play.