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":2,"featured_media":126174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[80469,25813,1607,47226,7027,80468,80470,80467,80465,80471,99,50980,7559,80466],"class_list":["post-126173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bill-belichick-time","tag-carson-beck","tag-college-football","tag-north-carolina-football","tag-north-carolina-tar-heels","tag-north-carolina-vs-tcu","tag-north-carolina-vs-tcu-odds","tag-north-carolina-vs-tcu-prediction","tag-north-carolina-vs-tcu-score","tag-north-carolina-vs-tcu-tv","tag-sports","tag-tcu-football","tag-tcu-horned-frogs","tag-where-to-watch-north-carolina-vs-tcu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}