Rested Heels Prepare For Stretch Run

Posted Oct 22, 2007

UNC’s bye week arrived at the perfect time, following a four-game stretch that included three top-25 ranked opponents. But things don’t get any easier for the Tar Heels, as the defending ACC champion Wake Forest Demon Deacons are next up on the schedule. “This is a big push – this last half of the season,” Butch Davis said at his weekly press conference. “But it all starts, one week at a time, with Wake Forest.” (Inside Carolina)

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