{"id":432140,"date":"2026-10-19T16:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T16:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/432140\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T16:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T16:46:09","slug":"miami-hurricanes-north-carolina-kickoff-time-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/432140\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Hurricanes-North Carolina kickoff time announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/2026\/10\/12\/no-3-hurricanes-kickoff-time-vs-pittsburgh-announced\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">noon game against Pittsburgh<\/a> at home this week, the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/2026\/10\/18\/um-ap-no-one\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> No. 1 Hurricanes<\/a> will go back to playing in primetime against North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Miami\u2019s road game against the Tar Heels on Oct. 31 is scheduled for a 7:30 p.m. kickoff, the ACC announced Monday. The game will be broadcast on ABC or ESPN; the network will be determined after this week\u2019s games.<\/p>\n<p>The Hurricanes (6-0, 4-0 ACC) have played only night games so far this season. The home game against Pitt is their first afternoon kickoff.<\/p>\n<p>UM is coming off a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/2026\/10\/18\/um-fsu-ot-takeaways\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">double-overtime victory against rival FSU<\/a> on Saturday. UNC (4-2, 2-1 ACC), coached by NFL legend Bill Belichick, also played a close game against a rival, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/sports\/duke-blue-devils-north-carolina-tar-heels-victory-bell-october-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">beating Duke 24-20<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Miami has struggled with the Tar Heels in recent years. North Carolina has won five straight games against UM, dating back to 2019. The Hurricanes have not beaten the Tar Heels since 2018 and have not won in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, since 2017. UM is 3-8 all-time in Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a noon game against Pittsburgh at home this week, the No. 1 Hurricanes will go back to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,114,123,125,5079,124,110],"class_list":["post-432140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-college-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-hurricanes","tag-miami-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}