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On August 30, 2026, Bill Belichick made his Tar Heels head-coaching debut in Dublin, grinding out a 15-10 win over TCU in the FBS-season opener — a real result over an ACC-caliber opponent. The six-time Super Bowl champion took the UNC job in December 2024, kicking off the most-watched NFL-to-college transition in football history, and the game was Chapel Hill’s first halftime lead over a power-conference foe in his tenure. Supporters say Week 0 delivered exactly the credibility injection UNC needed: the defense showed pro-level structure, and beating a Big 12 program on a neutral stage travels. Skeptics counter that TCU is coming off a down year, Bleacher Report flat-out called UNC’s offense “very limited,” and one 15-10 grind says nothing about whether a 74-year-old can recruit, develop, and coach college kids across a full ACC slate.