College football is back, and Bill Belichick's Tar Heels have 'improved'

Posted Aug 29, 2026
Wherever this particular final Saturday in August in Dublin, Ireland lands in the 2026 story of North Carolina and college football, it did manage to remind fans how a friendly scoreboard seems to remove some creases from the embattled faces of football coaches. Bill Belichick spent Saturday's postgame looking halfway chipper after his Tar Heels upset TCU. (ESPN)

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