Television networks have placed two major Week 5 ACC matchups on a six-day hold to maximize prime-time viewership, leaving head coach Bill Belichick and his North Carolina Tar Heels waiting to learn their kickoff time against Notre Dame.
Other than Duke’s solid win over an admittedly weak Stanford team, it was a dismal Saturday for football in the Triangle. N.C. State’s failure was particularly egregious and inexplicable: with the game in hand, up 31-28 with six seconds left to play, all the Wolfpack had to do was kill a few seconds to put Vanderbilt away.
Coach Dabo Swinney’s Clemson football team fought through a wild weather delay to beat Bill Belichick’s North Carolina football team 28-20 in Week 3 action.
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Bill Belichick was sitting on what should have been his biggest statement win at North Carolina. His Tar Heels carried a comfortable 17-6 lead into halftime against the Clemson Tigers at Death Valley on Saturday.
College football has historically been known as a sport that caters to the elite. It is very difficult to win a national championship if you aren't Notre Dame, Alabama, Ohio State, or a host of other schools that have great programs that invest heavily in keeping them at the top.
North Carolina head coach Bill Belichick is back in top form in at least one sense. Belichick delivered a classically brief sideline interview during Saturday’s game against Clemson at Memorial Stadium in Clemson, S.C.
Coaching changes happen every year, but they don't all happen the same way. We have had some wild offseason coaching moves in recent seasons, and 2025-2026 wasn't any different.
The North Carolina Tar Heels began the 2026 college football season strong, boasting a two-game winning streak under head coach Bill Belichick. However,
North Carolina needed a fast start in 2026 after last year’s rough 4-8 finish, and Bill Belichick has given them one. The Tar Heels are 2-0 heading into their first ACC game, which puts them somewhere nobody expected a few weeks ago.
Bill Belichick has maintained a steady start with a strong 2-0 lead, but the same can’t be said about his staff. The rapidly collapsing support structure around Bill Belichick at UNC has led many to wonder that this turmoil could lead to something else.
When the Clemson Tigers (1-1) take the field on Saturday afternoon against North Carolina (2-0), it will be a battle of high-pedigree, experienced coaches.
There’s a lot on the plate for UNC head coach Bill Belichick these days. Safe to say that even though he has done nothing wrong, his past few weeks must have been extremely stressful.
Kirk Herbstreit may have just laid out UNC’s path to College GameDay, and it runs through Clemson. If Bill Belichick’s Tar Heels can get past the Tigers, Chapel Hill could have a very different look in Week 5.
Another week, another (resolved) controversy for the North Carolina Tar Heels. With the university’s investigation into the program now over, the team itself can refocus on football and its Week 3 road game against the Clemson Tigers.
The University of North Carolina is having quite the Thursday morning. The Tar Heels confirmed that defensive coordinator Steve Belichick has resigned.
The Tar Heels hired Belichick in an attempt to finally turn things around for a program better known for basketball than for its success on the gridiron. To say that things haven't worked out that way would be a huge understatement.
North Carolina defensive coordinator Steve Belichick will resign his post effective Oct. 27, when his current medical leave at the university expires. Belichick follows Tar Heels football general manager Michael Lombardi out of Chapel Hill as an investigation launched in August wrapped up, the university confirmed on Thursday.
Bill Belichick’s son, Steve, is out of North Carolina football. According to Pete Thamel of ESPN on Thursday, sources told him Steve is no longer the defensive coordinator of the Tar Heels. Belichick steps down from the role amid a medical leave that started on Aug.
Bill Belichick has North Carolina off to the start it desperately needed in his second season in Chapel Hill. The Tar Heels are 2-0 after surviving TCU in Ireland and cruising past East Tennessee State, setting up a fascinating ACC opener against Dabo Swinney and Clemson on Saturday afternoon.
The North Carolina Tar Heels and head coach Bill Belichick are 2-0 heading into an important game against the Clemson Tigers, but it still feels like this is a program behind the 8-ball.
It’s the ACC opener for both Clemson (1-1) and North Carolina (2-0), but this means more than just a big start to the conference campaign. This is about the Tigers vs the Tar Heels, but the showdown of legendary head coaches, Bill Belichick and Dabo Swinney, makes this one of the biggest ACC games of the season.
Given the turmoil, there could be some fire behind the smoke that Belichick has zero institutional control at North Carolina.
Our Weekly Syllabus this week includes quick glimpses into the two biggest games of Week 2 — Ohio State-Texas, Oklahoma-Michigan — the end (for now) of a storied rivalry and the latest update into an ugly situation brewing in Chapel Hill.
In the latest edition of ESPN's "College GameDay," the punter turned show host, anchor, analyst, country music "singer" and what have you, predicted that Belichick's Tar Heels would win the ACC.
Ahead of the Labor Day holiday weekend, the Hall of Fame confirmed that its selection process won't be the same moving forward.
According to a WRAL report, North Carolina hired a law firm to investigate the general manager's alleged misconduct, and the findings have been tumultuous.
The North Carolina Tar Heels and Belichick put a difficult offseason behind them in a Week 0 win over the TCU Horned Frogs.
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