North Carolina Tar Heels: #20 in SI Post Spring Ranking
The North Carolina Tar Heels received good news from one preseason publication in this early time of the college football year.
The North Carolina Tar Heels have garnered a bit of attention for themselves in the world of college football. The Sports Illustrated too early post spring top 25 came out and the Tar Heels are on it along a few other ACC teams. So what does the world look like according to Colin Becht of Sports Illustrated?
The SI Post Spring Top 25
- Oklahoma Sooners
- Alabama Crimson Tide
- Florida State Seminoles
- Clemson Tigers
- Ohio State Buckeyes
- LSU Tigers
- Michigan Wolverines
- Tennessee Volunteers
- Notre Dame Fighting Irish
- Baylor Bears
- Stanford Cardinal
- Ole Miss Rebels
- Houston Cougars
- Iowa Hawkeyes
- TCU Horned Frogs
- Louisville Cardinals
- Washington Huskies
- Michigan State Spartans
- USC Trojans
- North Carolina Tar Heels
- Georgia Bulldogs
- Oklahoma State Cowboys
- Oregon Ducks
- Miami Hurricanes
- Washington State Cougars
It is easy to note that only the returning Peach Bowl champions, the Houston Cougars, made this list from outside the Power 5 conferences.
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Of course the important thing is the team at number 20 in these rankings. The Tar Heels were given this ranking largely on the continuity of their offensive personnel. The Tar Heels are the top rated team from the ACC Coastal Division in the rankings though there are three Atlantic Division teams ranked in front of them.
Another interesting feature is that the Tar Heels would enter their first game against Georgia has the higher rated team based on this list. It just wasn’t a possibility that I had thought about personally. ACC-SEC cross games are just so much more important to the ACC than the SEC is the current environment.
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Of course it is good news for the Tar Heels to be rated at all because the better the preseason positioning the easier it is to get up the ladder later. I would just point out that these are only Colin Becht’s rankings and not the AP or Coaches Poll.