CHAPEL HILL
For nearly 70 years the Victory Bell has been a part of the North Carolina-Duke football rivalry, a symbol of triumph that has been around longer than the ACC has existed.
For a while now, as long as many can remember, the bell's platform has worn the colors of the rivalry's most recently victorious school. Which means that since Nov. 20, 2014, Carolina blue has surrounded the bell. Until now.
The Tar Heels play at Duke on Thursday night and, as is the tradition during UNC-Duke week, a student manager wheeled the Victory Bell out onto the edge of the practice fields, where it sat on Monday with a noticeably different look.