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North Carolina Tar Heels to play Georgia in 2016

By John Woodcock

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The North Carolina Tar Heels Football team will be starting its 2016 season in the Chick Fil-A Kickoff Game against the Georgia Bulldogs according to a report from Insidecarolina.com. Georgia has been an opponent that many Tar Heel fans have wanted to face for some time. The Bulldogs have a different view of the creation of public education in the South. They claim the earliest charter while North Carolina claims the earliest student body.

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The Peach Bowl Commission has been committed to put on one high profile matchup early in the college football year for the last five years. Normally it likes to pair ACC and SEC matchups, but Big 12 West Virginia has been a participant in the game before.

North Carolina last appeared in the game in 2010 against LSU. Butch Davis was still on the sidelines and the jerseys were still traditional designs. The Tar Heels might have scored the upset too, if Zach Pianalto had caught the final pass of the game.

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    • The Peach Bowl Commission CEO Gary Stokan only had nice things to say about the potential of the Heels. He mentioned that the new hire of Gene Chizik as the defensive coordinator was a big step to making the Heels a big time team by 2016. Stokan also referenced that Georgia was a perennial SEC East power.

    Georgia and the Tar Heels are border neighbors, but they have not played each other since 1971. The series is pretty balanced with a 16-12-2 record in favor of the Bulldogs. Georgia is a team that tries to raid the state of North Carolina for its best prospects. A victory over Georgia might convince some of those kids to keep their football playing inside the Old North State.

    North Carolina opens this current football season with a similar matchup against the South Carolina Gamecocks in Charlotte.

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