{"id":126209,"date":"2025-09-02T02:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T02:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/126209\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T02:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T02:26:07","slug":"after-hot-start-belichicks-tar-heels-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/126209\/","title":{"rendered":"After hot start, Belichick&#8217;s Tar Heels struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things started hot for the Tar Heels. It then cooled off, quickly.<\/p>\n<p>After taking a 7-0 lead on an opening-drive touchdown during which TCU couldn\u2019t stop the UNC offense, North Carolina has become borderline catatonic when it has the ball. TCU, in contrast, has scored 20 unanswered points.<\/p>\n<p>The Horned Frogs lead at the break, 20-7.<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina quarterback Gio Lopez started two for two for 58 yards. Since the first drive, he\u2019s 0-4 \u2014 with a pick six.<\/p>\n<p>The deficit could be bigger than 13. Another TCU drive deep in UNC territory ended with a tipped-ball interception. <\/p>\n<p>TCU gets the ball to start the third quarter. If the Tar Heels don\u2019t get out of the mud quickly, Belichick\u2019s college head-coaching debut will go the same way as his pro head-coaching debut went. <\/p>\n<p>On this very day in 1991, the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/boxscores\/199109010cle.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Cowboys beat Belichick\u2019s Browns<\/a>, 26-14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Things started hot for the Tar Heels. It then cooled off, quickly. After taking a 7-0 lead on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-126209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126209","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=126209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}