North Carolina's football team could resume workouts this week without knowing its next opponent.
After UNC accepted a bid to the Continental Tire Bowl on Tuesday, bowl executive director Will Webb said he expected to announce the Big East representative Sunday after the weekend's slate of games had played out.
But Boston College's unexpected loss to Syracuse on Saturday created a four-way tie atop the Big East among the Eagles, Pittsburgh, Syracuse and West Virginia.
This created a precarious situation with regard to which of those four teams will qualify for the Bowl Championship Series - a verdict that will then determine from which teams the Tire Bowl can select.
All four teams finished 4-2 in the conference, but Pittsburgh and Syracuse emerged from the four-team tiebreaker with a better head-to-head record between them.
The final tiebreaker between those two schools will be the ranking in the final BCS standings. Pittsburgh likely will be ranked in the BCS after defeating West Virginia on Thursday, but the Panthers still have to face South Florida this Saturday in a makeup game originally canceled during Hurricane Charley.
If Pittsburgh loses to the Bulls, it appears probable that neither team will be ranked in the BCS, making it anyone's guess as to which one will emerge as the conference's representative.
That decision will trigger a chain of events that will permit the Tire Bowl to select a team to face the Tar Heels.
On Tuesday, Webb leaned toward Connecticut.
