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UNC Football loses a stunner in overtime to Syracuse, 31-30
The good vibes surrounding UNC Football after two straight wins dissipated on Saturday night, as the Heels gave up 13 points in the 4th quarter and then were outdone in overtime by a downtrodden Syracuse squad in a 31-30 (OT) upset. UNC, favored by better than a touchdown coming in, was unable to take advantage […]
UNC vs. Syracuse Live Discussion
Let’s talk about how weird this season has gotten for Carolina football. UNC is currently tied for fourth place in the ACC alongside Clemson, and they are one of four other teams that only have one conference loss. If the Tar Heels beat Syracuse and Clemson loses to Virginia Tech, suddenly the Heels are solely […]
UNC Football: Momentum
In Gloucestershire, England, there is a fairly steep hill. I’ve never seen it in person, only in videos on the internet, and then only typically mostly obscured by flailing limbs. Each year, at the end of May, a group of people fling a wheel of cheese down this hill, then a small subset of those […]
Jordan Shipp is a semifinalist for the Jason Witten Man of the Year Award
Junior wide receiver Jordan Shipp is having what will probably be a career year as UNC’s WR1 on the field. Shipp currently leads the Heels in receptions (33) and receiving yards (441). He was one of the reasons Carolina beat Duke for the first time 2023 and ensured the Victory Bell was returned to its […]
How to Watch UNC Football take on Syracuse
A primetime game against an opponent that Carolina can beat with a chance to earn a major showcase game next week. What could go wrong? After playing what seemed like the first half of the season at noon—that’s not really an exaggeration as last Saturday was the first game played at a time other than […]
What are your expectations for the rest of the UNC football season?
This Saturday’s game against Syracuse will mark the beginning of the second half of UNC football’s 2026 season. So far, Bill Belichick’s second season has been an improvement over the first. They’ve already matched their win total from last year. Whereas last year, every possible bad break seemed to go against them, they’ve gotten several […]
Jump Around: Quick Thoughts as UNC Football hits the halfway mark
This week: a win over Duke keeps UNC moving up the efficiency rankings, Gio stands atop PFF’s college football grades, Bill Belichick has had some good schedule fortune, plus a review of what our opponents this season, past and present, are up to (or down to). Midterm Assessment: Average At 4-2, UNC has already exceeded […]
Three takeaways from Caleb Wilson’s first NBA regular season game
Quite a few Carolina fans by now heard about former Tar Heel Caleb Wilson’s first NBA regular season game with the Chicago Bulls. The talented forward finished his outing against the Toronto Raptors with 16 points, four rebounds, three steals, a block, and nine (!!!) turnovers. The detail that made everyone’s jaw drop is that […]
UNC returns to Kenan Stadium to face off against Syracuse
Last season, the victory over the Orange marked Bill Belichick’s first win against a Power 4 opponent. This season, a victory will put the Tar Heels on the verge of bowl eligibility. Can North Carolina get the victory against Syracuse for the second straight season? The Opponent All-time Record 758–590–49, 17-11-1 in bowl games Best […]
The UNC tight end room is living up to the hype
In our preseason positional previews, I wrote about UNC’s revamped tight end room. It was one of the few positional groupings I felt optimistic about heading into the season; while there wasn’t a lot of past production on the roster, there was a lot of potential in the position including some possible future NFL talent. […]
ACC Basketball: Top freshmen in the 2026 class
As the UNC football team continues to surprise on its run toward bowl eligibility, it’s a great time to turn the attention back to a sport that made the ACC the power conference it is: men’s basketball (no offense to other sports that are awesome, but this is what the ACC is). With that in […]
Three things to watch during UNC’s home game against Syracuse
UNC hopes to get its third win a row and fifth on the season Saturday at the expense of Syracuse. Currently winless in the ACC at 0-4, Syracuse’s two wins this season have come over New Hampshire by a lot and by one over UConn in OT. Thanks to injury, Syracuse has played four quarterbacks […]
UNC women #12 in Top 25 to start season, men unranked
All around the country, the preparation for the beginning of college basketball season is well underway. Teams have played exhibitions, including our own North Carolina Tar Heel squads. Earlier this week, another milestone on the journey to the season was passed as the AP Top 25 preseason polls were released. These days, the preseason polls […]
UNC’s path to a win against Syracuse starts with stopping Umari Hatcher
UNC’s defense is built to prevent explosive plays, even at the expense of staying on the field by surrendering long drives. UNC would rather give up 25 yards in six plays than one, forcing offenses to execute a high number of plays to get to the red zone. Once there, UNC tends to win the […]
UNC Football: Mid-Season Grades
The Tar Heels finally returned the Victory Bell back to Chapel Hill. After taking an early 17-0 lead, North Carolina let the Blue Devils score 20 unanswered points before Jaylen McGill scampered 24 yards for the go ahead score with less than two minutes remaining. Kenton Dopson III got the game sealing interception and the […]
ACC Power Rankings: After Week 7
Last week was an especially chaotic one around college football. Top ranked Georgia, #2 Notre Dame, #5 Indiana, #6 Alabama, and #7 Texas all lost, most of which came in dramatic, down to the final whistle fashion. However, said chaos didn’t really make it to the ACC, just barely. Current conference top dogs Miami narrowly […]
The UNC Sports Week Ahead: October 19th-25th
Fall Break is over, and the students are back on campus. Fall sports regular seasons are winding their way to an end, and some sports that span seasons are getting close to hibernating for a few months. It feels like it has finally turned into real fall in North Carolina, but that also means your […]
AP Top 25: After Week 7
For all the hand-wringing about the present and future state of college football, the sport remains unparalleled in its ability to deliver truly epic days. Five of the top seven teams in the AP Top 25 rankings lost on Saturday, the first time that’s happened in the poll’s 90-year history. The chaos is reflected in […]
UNC beats Duke — Winners, Losers, & Honorable Mentions
It didn’t need to be that hard. Carolina fans had seen this story before: the quick 17-0 lead on the road, a sinking feeling of when things would start to crash, and then the torture of the lead disappearing. The first sign was an unfortunate fumble, and yet the defense just kept giving the Tar […]
Three takeaways from UNC’s preseason loss to Indiana
There are two good things that come out of preseason college basketball games: winning gives you hope that the season will turn out alright, and losing is extremely forgivable because it doesn’t go into the record books anyway. For the Tar Heels, they suffered a pretty ugly loss to Indiana that they will have to […]
UNC vs. Indiana Live Discussion
We are just moments away from seeing Michael Malone in action for the second time this season, as the North Carolina Tar Heels prepare to face off against Indiana. This will be another good opportunity for Malone and his staff to do some tinkering with this roster and figure out how to start off the […]
Greg Smith’s Player of the Game performance headlines another solid showing by UNC’s defense
For the second time this season, Carolina ran out to a multi-score lead before allowing their opponent to claw their way back into the game after the offense ground to a halt. Unlike the Clemson game, the Heels managed to put a drive together just in time on Saturday night and down the Blue Devils, […]
How to watch UNC’s preseason matchup against Indiana
The North Carolina Tar Heels face off against Indiana later today in Indianapolis in their second preseason game of the season. Both teams are hoping to work out any kinks that they have with lineup combinations, play calling, and general synergy before the regular season begins in a couple of weeks. This should be a […]
UNC reclaims Victory Bell from Duke thanks to Kenton Dopson’s late-game interception
Carolina fans likely need to meditate after having witnessed such a wild game against Duke. All the high blood pressure and broken objects in Chapel Hill wasn’t for nothing, though, because the Tar Heels are now the owners of the Victory Bell for the first time since 2023 after beating Duke 24-20. Things seemed way […]
UNC vs. Duke Live Discussion
Fresh off a loss to Georgia Tech, the Duke Blue Devils will try to hang onto the Victory Bell when they face off against UNC this afternoon in Wallace Wade Stadium. The Heels are coming off their first ranked victory in the Bill Belichick era, and now they are hoping for another first under the […]
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