UNC Football With the Tar Heels dipping into league play this weekend, the team had to submit an injury report to conference on Wednesday. For the Tar Heels, ten players are listed with official designations for this game. Seven players will be inactive in the game, including the two players, Keeyun Chapman and C.J. Sadler, who were charged during a traffic stop on Tuesday. Tight end Jordan Washington, who sustained an injury earlier this offseason, will be out for a third st

@coscj1- Instagram According to Inside Carolina, two Tar Heel football players were charged in a traffic stop that occurred on Tuesday night in Chapel Hill. True freshman wide receiver Keeyun Chapman was charged with a misdemeanor gun charge, while fellow true freshman C.J. Sadler was charged with driving 60 mph in a 35 mph zone, per the police reports obtained by Inside Carolina. Police pulled Sadler over at 1050 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in Chapel Hill according to the p

UNC Athletics The Tar Heels are working on building momentum in their 2026 season, where they have gotten off to a 2-0 start, but the program’s 2027 ACC opponents were revealed on Wednesday. While this year’s schedule contains eight conference opponents, the Tar Heels will be one of the teams that will play nine conference games this upcoming season. The program came into the day with four matchups scheduled for next season. The team will host both UCF (September 4th) and Con

UNC Athletics The Tar Heels opened the 100th season in Kenan Stadium in style, beating East Tennessee State 35-3 to improve to 2-0 this season. After a week off following the win over TCU in Dublin, we saw the Tar Heel offense take another step under offensive coordinator Bobby Petrino, and the defense, led by Jaylen Harvey, held ETSU scoreless deep into the second half; after the first two games, it is allowing just 6.5 points per game. It was the perfect tune-up before the

UNC Athletics The Tar Heels kicked off their 100th season in Kenan Stadium as they welcomed Will Healy and East Tennessee State to Chapel Hill for the first time. After some sluggish moments in the first half, the team did what they had to pull away for a comfortable 35-3 win. Here’s a look at our biggest takeaways from a victory that sent the team to 2-0 heading to Clemson. Defensive Line Continues to Get After the Quarterback For a second straight game to start the season,

UNC Athletics The Tar Heels have had another rough week bye week off the field, but it is time for this group to get back to business on the field on Saturday as they face East Tennessee State in the home opener. The team will be looking to build on the upset win over TCU and get closer to a bowl game against an FCS team that is off to a hot start offensively. Here’s everything you need to know about the kickoff to the first home game of the 100th season in Kenan Stadium. Tea

Brett Davis- USA Today Sports According to multiple reports, the Tar Heels will not have recruits at Saturday’s home opener in Kenan Stadium against East Tennessee State as part of a penalty for recruiting violations. Anna Adams of TarHeel247 was the first to report the news earlier this morning and it was later confirmed by national analysts from On3 Sports and Inside Carolina’s Don Callahan. A program spokesperson released a statement about the penalty earlier this afternoo

UNC Athletics The Tar Heels kicked the 2026 season off with a bang by picking up the biggest win of the Bill Belichick era in Dublin, Ireland over TCU. This win readjusts the expectations for this season and provides a spark for a program and fanbase that was sorely needed. Here is a look at the stock report after an encouraging start to the 2026 season. ⇧Xavier Lewis Lewis, a former walk-on, was the best player on the field on Saturday. Last year, Lewis was a guy that the te

ABC11 As first reported by Pete Thamel of ESPN, Tar Heel general manager Michael Lombardi has resigned from his job in the midst of an ongoing internal investigation into him by the school. In a statement that was released by the school, they said “Michael Lombardi has resigned from his position as General Manager of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s football program. The University will continue its ongoing investigation and will consider all appropriate corr

University of North Carolina Athletics The Tar Heels opened the 2026 college football season in style, upsetting TCU 15-10 in Dublin to validate the growth of the program under Bill Belichick, who spent the off-season communicating a message about improved chemistry and cohesiveness. Like in most sports, analytics and advanced metrics help us evaluate how a team or a player performed in a certain setting, and football is no different in the age of PFF, along with NextGen Stat

UNC Athletics After a rough first season to say the least for Bill Belichick in Chapel Hill, expectations were low for the Tar Heels heading into a season-opening matchup with TCU in Dublin, Ireland. While it may not have been the prettiest football you will see this season, Saturday finally felt like Bill Belichick football and the Tar Heels did enough to pull out a hard-earned upset and create some excitement for the possibilities of what this season could be. Here are our

Grant Halverson- Getty Images The Tar Heels begin Year 2 under Bill Belichick on Saturday in the Aer Lingus Classic in Dublin, Ireland where they will look to avenge last year’s season opening loss to the TCU Horned Frogs. With a team that is in a much different spot than they were a year ago at this time, there is a budding confidence that the team will at least put together a better showing than they did last year and possibly even pull the upset. Here’s is a look at everyt

Grant Halverson- Getty Images The Tar Heels open the season on Saturday in Dublin, Ireland against the TCU Horned Frogs as they look to avenge last year’s blowout loss and get an important 2026 season off to a fast start. Just like last year, it appears that Bill Belichick will not release a depth chart prior to kickoff, so we’re going to take our best shot at predicting what things will look like on game day. Here’s our projected two deep for Saturday’s tilt. Offense QB # 9

ABC11 There has been much information on Steve Belichick and his situation since it was announced that he was taking a medical leave, but his status for the opener seems to have been determined. According to a report from On3 Sports and Inside Carolina, the Tar Heels second year coordinator is not expected to be on the sideline in Dublin on Saturday as the team takes on TCU. The younger Belichick has been on medical leave from the team since August 6 and there have been no up

UNC Athletics On Monday morning, the Tar Heels officially named their captains for the 2026 season. The group of seven contains senior edge rusher Melkart Abou Jaoude, senior cornerback Kaleb Cost, junior running back Benjamin Hall, senior Isaiah Johnson, graduate center Christo Kelly, graduate linebacker Derek McDonald and junior wide receiver Jordan Shipp. In 646 snaps a year ago, Abou Jaoude tallied 47 total tackles, 12.0 tackles for loss, 10.5 sacks and 42 total quarterba

We are officially less than one week away from the Tar Heels opening the season in Ireland against TCU and it is time to do a couple of our favorite preseason prediction articles. We’ll start by giving you our five breakout players for this upcoming season. Anthony Jelani Thurman @uncfootball- Instagram There might not be a player on the roster that has received more positive buzz about them than Thurman this offseason and with that, expectations are growing. While Thurman ha

@uncfootball- Twitter After being declared eligible to play in 2026 earlier this month, Tar Heel fifth-year kicker Rece Verhoff is currently ineligible. His eligibility status flipped on Friday after the Tenth Circuit of the US Court of Appeals granted the NCAA’s stay request in the Wisne vs. NCAA case in the state of Colorado. Now, in order to be deemed eligible, Verhoff and others that were apart of that case will have to head to other states in search of temporary injuncti

The Tar Heel brought in the second-most freshmen of anyone in the country back in February and the team will be banking on some of these guys to make an impact in their first seasons at the college level. Here are the five freshmen that we think could have a big impact on the team at some point this season. Carson Sneed @_carsonsneed_- Instagram Sneed is the one guy that could make an impact right out of the gate in Ireland. He has been running with the ones in place of the i

Mark Konezny- Imagn Images As the season closes in, certain college football awards continue to roll out their preseason watch lists and on Tuesday, it was the Doak Walker Award committee who released theirs. Sophomore running back Demon June was the lone Tar Heel to land on the list, following a productive first season at UNC. Last year, as a true freshman, June led the Tar Heel in rushing, carrying the ball 84 times for 464 yards and two touchdowns. He also caught 17 passes

@uncfootball- Instagram After a long and well-fought battle to be the starting QB for the Tar Heels against TCU next Saturday, Bill Belichick has named Wisconsin transfer Billy Edwards Jr as the starting QB for Carolina according to ESPN’s Pete Thamel. Edwards won the job over Texas A&M transfer Miles O’Neill, who had a previous relationship with new offensive coordinator Bobby Petrino, who in part recruited O’Neill to College Station. Bill Belichick opted to revamp the QB r