Even if the last two weeks hadn’t torpedoed UNC fans’ hopes for anything substantial to come from this season, this week’s matchup against Campbell would still have been more about the program’s future than its present. There’s a little dramatic irony in calling any game a foregone conclusion when one of the squads in question has lost two straight games as double-digit favorites, but there’s still a difference between conference play and an out-of-conference game against an okay FCS team. Put another way, even the 2017 and 2018 teams, who were way more hopeless than this one, beat Western Carolina by more than 20 points.