If there’s something I love more than beating UNC-Chapel Hill on a regular basis, it’s beating them when they’ve got something going for them.Unfortunately, Maryland already stole the big thunder for us this past weekend by nailing a last-second field goal at home and effectively knocking the Tar Heels out of the running for the ACC Championship game. But I’d love to knock them even further down the standings ladder and relegate them to the blue turf in Boise, Idaho for their Christmas break.Ever since Butch Davis has taken over the helm down the road, the Tar Heels feel they’ve resurrected themselves to some sort of a semblance of a national power. They have a coach with national prominence and paid him an efficient $425,000 per win last year after coaching Miami to national prominence and then failing miserably in the NFL. They’ve recruited hyped up star power across the board, and this year they’ve managed to trounce national powerhouses like big, bad Notre Dame and the Big East perennial powers Rutgers and University of Connecticut.They shot up the polls, and at one point, some sports Web sites were predicting they’d be the ACC’s representative in the Orange Bowl. The UNC football team has even gotten so good that coach Davis has decided that Carolina Blue as a color isn’t good enough for their new national image — he’s changed their uniform colors from light blue to a color that oddly resembles Duke blue.Take that, tradition — Tom O’Brien would be run out of town if he tried to change our uniforms to some sort of maroon color like his old team’s uniforms up in Boston. But then again, when UNC only has 48,000 in attendance for a game against a top 25 opponent when competing for an ACC Division title in a stadium that seats 60,000, I guess people won’t really notice the difference in uniforms.We’ve got the best fans in the ACC. Even though we’re last in our division and have been rebuilding our program for the last few years, we consistently sell out home games and show up in droves at away games, regardless of how badly we were beaten the week before. We’ve got momentum on our side, the resources to make it happen and the support to create what could resemble a home game on Saturday much like it was last weekend at Duke. A win this weekend is another step in the rebuilding process and a sign of how far our team has come since the beginning of the season. A win this Saturday will signal that we are in fact the best team in the state of North Carolina.Football will always be second fiddle to basketball in Chapel Hill — some people speculate that’s the reason Mack Brown is now a coach with a national title under his belt at Texas and not at the University of North Carolina. And as much as the fans from Chapel Hill will whine about how they don’t care about football or they’re only basketball fans — beating them on Saturday will give N.C. State alumni, students and fans a year-long pass to rub it in their face that the lowly Wolfpack went to Chapel Hill and rained on their parade of star-studded entitlement. Go Pack!Send Benton your thoughts on what Saturday’s game will mean to [email protected].