{"id":896276,"date":"2026-10-27T11:00:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/896276\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T11:00:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T11:00:25","slug":"bill-belichicks-unc-nightmare-gets-worse-after-devastating-syracuse-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/896276\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Belichick\u2019s UNC nightmare gets worse after devastating Syracuse collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oct. 26, 2026, 11:30 a.m. ET<\/p>\n

Bill Belichick’s postgame news conference<\/a> after North Carolina’s<\/a> devastating 31-30 overtime loss to Syracuse on Saturday, Oct. 24, barely lasted over three minutes.<\/p>\n

The legendary former NFL coach was even more short-winded than usual after the Tar Heels<\/a>‘ loss, which broke an 11-game conference losing streak for the Orange<\/a>. Syracuse’s last conference win was against Clemson<\/a> on Sept. 20, 2025.<\/p>\n

“Not much to say about this one,” Belichick said after the game. “They made a couple more plays than we did today and it was the difference in the game. Hard-fought game, just like all the other ones we\u2019ve seen Syracuse play. Just came up a little bit short.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The loss could have major ramifications regarding North Carolina’s bowl eligibility this season. With remaining games against Miami, Connecticut, Louisville, Virginia and NC State<\/a>, it’s feasible for the Tar Heels to miss a bowl game for the second consecutive season under Belichick, who’s being paid over $10 million per season.<\/p>\n

The way in which North Carolina lost is even more concerning. It held a 20-10 lead midway through the third quarter, but was outscored 21-10 the rest of the game before going to overtime, where Syracuse won on a game-winning 2-point conversion.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think anything\u2019s holding us back,\u201d UNC receiver Jordan Shipp said after the game. \u201cI think we\u2019re holding ourselves back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Awaiting Belichick and the Tar Heels is a bout with No. 1 Miami, which could sting even worse after a loss to conference bottom-feeder Syracuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct. 26, 2026, 11:30 a.m. ET Bill Belichick’s postgame news conference after North Carolina’s devastating 31-30 overtime loss…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[182817,399,398,396,397,270786,99,322532,322533,184129,192016,336306,213210,184127,183376,184925,213264,326611,305917,183265,184128,375803,375802,375801,183316,182820],"class_list":["post-896276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-accessfree","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sourceusa-today","tag-sports","tag-sstssportsncaafacc","tag-sstsnacc","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagbill-belichick","tag-tagclemson-tigers-football","tag-tagcollege-football","tag-tagcollege-sports","tag-tagmodular-story","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnorth-carolina","tag-tagnorth-carolina-tar-heels","tag-tagnorth-carolina-tar-heels-football","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagsyracuse","tag-tagsyracuse-orange","tag-tagsyracuse-orange-football","tag-tagto-the-point","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896276","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=896276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}