Kenan Stadium will be rocking Monday night with a sellout crowd as Bill Belichick makes his debut as North Carolina football coach. The Tar Heels have seen ticket sales soar since hiring the NFL legend and eight-time Super Bowl champion, and fans now get a prime-time look at his first college game against Sonny Dykes and veteran-laden TCU.<\/p>\n
Belichick overhauled the roster with a top-10 transfer class, bringing in 41 players through the portal. Many of those new arrivals are expected to step into key roles, including former South Alabama quarterback Gio Lopez.<\/p>\n
The Horned Frogs counter with experience, led by fourth-year junior quarterback Josh Hoover, who threw for nearly 4,000 yards and 27 touchdowns last season on a nine-win team.<\/p>\n
North Carolina, which has won three straight openers and is 3-0 all-time against TCU, with the last meeting in 1997. A win Monday would give the ACC another marquee result in Week 1, with as many as four league teams projected to crack Tuesday’s updated AP Top 25.<\/p>\n
Keep it locked here as CBS Sports provides you with live updates, highlights and analysis as North Carolina battles TCU to open the 2025 season in Week 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kenan Stadium will be rocking Monday night with a sellout crowd as Bill Belichick makes his debut as…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":192742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[107606,22241,1428,1318,1317,1315,1316,107609,3910,107605,107607,107604,107602,107608,62,80190,22503,67,132,68,107603],"class_list":{"0":"post-192741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-bill-belichick-time","9":"tag-carson-beck","10":"tag-college-football","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-football","14":"tag-ncaafootball","15":"tag-north-carolina-football","16":"tag-north-carolina-tar-heels","17":"tag-north-carolina-vs-tcu","18":"tag-north-carolina-vs-tcu-odds","19":"tag-north-carolina-vs-tcu-prediction","20":"tag-north-carolina-vs-tcu-score","21":"tag-north-carolina-vs-tcu-tv","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-tcu-football","24":"tag-tcu-horned-frogs","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-where-to-watch-north-carolina-vs-tcu"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115131781251231355","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}