It’s state championship season for UNC football .

Following consecutive wins, the Tar Heels (4-5, 2-3 ACC) close the regular season with a three-game stretch against Tobacco Road rivals, starting at Wake Forest (6-3, 3-3) on Nov. 15 (4:30 p.m., The CW ) in Winston-Salem.

“I’ve been in a lot of (rivalries) before, but the ones regionally are just different. And Tobacco Road, we’ve certainly talked about that with a lot of people who have played in a lot of these games, or coached in them or been around them,” UNC coach Bill Belichick said during his weekly press conference on Nov. 11.

“Historically, we’re catching up on it, but we even saw in the Charlotte game that it’s a little bit different when you play in-state. Every high school kid wants to win a state championship. And when you’r

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