Look out basketball world. UNC was the first unanimous pick for preseason number one, according to the USA Today Coaches' Poll. I usually don't like following basketball during any football season where we still have a chance to do great things, but I don't mind so much this year, because I know Roy and crew won't win it all, and it's my fault.

As you may or may not know, I'm in the third year of a three-year "deal with the devil." I made a statement several years ago, which I have often repeated and still stand by today, that I would gladly trade 3 national titles in basketball for one in football. Now I think I can argue that we should have won the basketball championship for the past 2 years, and barring any crazy alien abductions or the like, we should be right there again this year. But we won't win. We will lose again in some new variation of heartbreaker, and at this time next year, I will be booking my flights to the BCS championship game.

Don't make that face. A boy can dream, can't he?