By The Tobacco Road Scribe Chapel Hill, NC – For a few rain-soaked minutes Saturday afternoon, North Carolina had No. 3 Notre Dame exactly where it wanted the Fighting Irish. The Tar Heels had erased most of a 14-point deficit.…
Charlotte, NC – The Atlantic Coast Conference and its television partners have announced the following football game times and networks for Week 5 of the season. The schedule includes nine games overall, highlighted by six conference matchups across Friday, October…
By Chatham Journal staff Pittsboro, NC – All 12 games involving ACC teams are final. The weekend produced five conference games, with Pitt, Miami, Clemson, Louisville and Duke collecting ACC victories. Outside the league, Virginia Tech delivered a notable Power…
By The Tobacco Road Scribe Chapel Hill, NC – Bill Belichick needed only two words to explain how North Carolina should remind Clemson’s freshman quarterback that he is making his first college start. “Play good,” Belichick said. The characteristically terse…
Chapel Hill, NC – Bill Belichick arrived at his weekly news conference prepared to discuss East Tennessee State. Instead, the North Carolina football coach spent some of the session confronting questions that reach far beyond Saturday’s home opener: the resignation…
By The Tobacco Road Scribe CHAPEL HILL – Bill Belichick reduced North Carolina’s long trip to Ireland and its season-opening rematch with TCU to a short list of football essentials Monday: protect the ball, prevent explosive plays and respond quickly…
By The Tobacco Road Scribe Chapel Hill, NC – North Carolina is running out of training-camp days but not out of decisions. With the Tar Heels scheduled to open the 2026 season against TCU in Dublin on Aug. 29, head…
By Gene Galin Pittsboro, NC – Steve Newmark returned to familiar territory last Tuesday morning with an unfamiliar challenge before him: explaining how the University of North Carolina can preserve the traditions of college athletics while competing in a rapidly…
By The Tobacco Road Scribe Chapel Hill, NC – Bill Belichick opened North Carolina’s 2026 preseason training camp with none of the sweeping promises, championship predictions or manufactured enthusiasm that often accompany the start of a college football season. His…
Charlotte, NC – Miami has been selected as the preseason favorite to win the 2026 Atlantic Coast Conference football championship, according to the media’s predicted order of finish following a vote of more than 185 media members credentialed for this…