On Thursday at ACC Media Days in Charlotte, North Carolina head coach Larry Fedora talked about facing Georgia in the season-opener on Sept. 3. Fedora’s Tar Heels may have gone unbeaten in ACC-play a year ago, finishing with an 11-3 overall record, but he knows what he’s up against when facing the Bulldogs.

“For us, we look at it, it’s kind of a measuring stick, where are we in our program at this point,” said Fedora on Thursday. “At the same time we know that a game like that doesn’t make or break our season. It really has nothing to do with the goals that we have for our season. We want to be prepared. We’re going to go to that neutral site of Atlanta and we’re going to give it our best.”

Fedora talked more, not only about Georgia and the tradition the Bulldogs have, but about first-year head coach Kirby Smart as well.

“Everybody knows the tradition of their team,” he said. “All they do is win at least 10 games a year. In the recruiting rankings they’re in the top-10 every single year. They’ve got great players in every single position, whether it’s Nick Chubb, Sony Michel, whoever they have in their stable, I promise you they’re going to have a dang good running back back there. They don’t know who the quarterback is going to be, but we know it’s going to be a good one. Kirby Smart is a helluva football coach. He’s put together a great staff. They have the support that they need to be successful. We’re excited about it.”

The two teams may both be breaking in new starting quarterbacks, as the Tar Heels’ starter from a year ago, Marquise Williams, graduated. For the Bulldogs, senior quarterback Greyson Lambert is back, but nobody is counting out the five-star signal caller Smart just reeled in, Jacob Eason.

Who’s ready for the showdown in Atlanta?