from Greg Barnes at www.wralsportsfan.com and Inside Carolina.com:
Chapel Hill, N.C. — North Carolina is only 12 days and nine practices away from its season-opening matchup with LSU in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game. The primary benefit of returning 18 starters is that the first unit has remained virtually unchanged, and those few open spots have essentially already been secured.
“We’re pretty close, obviously,†UNC head coach Butch Davis told reporters before Monday’s practice when asked if his starting lineup was set. “I think that if we were playing Saturday, we have a pretty good idea as to who the starting 11 [would be] on both sides of the ball.â€
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