Now that it looks like the big storm might be some rain and lesser winds, the first big consequential game of the Tech ACC season will get underway in Chapel Hill as planned. The Tar Heels have been a seriously painful opponent of the past two decades. Okay, time for the history before the present to put a few things into perspective. Before World War II ended, the VPI vs Carolina football matchup was old and hard fought. The school’s football teams first took to the gridiron when the field was actually laid out in a grid, before Teddy Roosevelt reformed the sport and the forward pass existed.