Tar Heels will face a 'huge' challenge

Posted Oct 11, 2008
North Carolina is loath to assign added significance to any one game. So there haven't been any quotes along the lines of "Playing Notre Dame this week is going to be the biggest game of the season" or "Beating the Fighting Irish would be awesome!" out of the Tar Heels' players this week. About the most demonstrative comment was cornerback Kendric Burney's assessment. "It's going to be huge," Burney said. (Durham Herald-Sun)

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