North Carolina has added Minnesota to its nonconference football schedule in 2013 and 2014, team spokesman Kevin Best announced Thursday.
Minnesota will visit the Tar Heels on Sept. 7, 2013. North Carolina will return the trip on Sept. 13, 2014.
The teams have never met in football.
Comments
Why?
Fri, 09/04/2009 - 00:13 — Heels20Is John Bunting making these decisions again? What good comes from this? We have everything to lose and nothing to gain. Who are we recruiting from Minnesota?
Improvement
Mon, 09/07/2009 - 09:30 — heelsno1Scheduling the Golden Gophers makes a lot more sense than playing The Citadel or Georgia Southern (a late replacement when UNC backed out from its home-and-away series planned versus Colorado).
Schedule some more SEC schools...Kentucky, Ole Miss, Auburn or Vanderbilt.
UMinnesota's coach...
Thu, 09/03/2009 - 18:59 — UNC1998has strong UNC connections. I'm not surprised to see UNC playing a game in Big 10 country to expose the area to UNC a little bit. I certainly will not be making that trip, though.
I like to see the local
Thu, 09/03/2009 - 18:06 — mad_maxI like to see the local teams setting up games with teams they've never played. It gives some of us a chance to see what's going on around the country in college football a little better than normally. Everyone can watch distant teams play each other on ESPN, but you really get to identify their quality better when they're lined up against your team.
I'll bet this was a
Thu, 09/03/2009 - 17:12 — blitzballI'll bet this was a scheduling mistake. UNC probably thought they were scheduling the University of Minneapolis which doesn't have a football team.