2025 North Carolina Tar Heels Week 1 Betting Lines
Perhaps the most interesting story in the 2025 college football season will take place at the University of North Carolina. Whether fans and gamblers may love or hate Bill Belichick doesn’t matter. All eyes in college football will be on Chapel Hill this season thanks to Bill Belichick’s arrival. Watching how Belichick’s lack of collegiate experience (especially in the portal and NIL era) and his playbook ability to get the most out of the roster is easily one - if not the No. 1 - storyline in the nation this year. The 73-year-old coach also reshaped the roster through the portal by bringing in over 40 transfers, and has a favorable schedule for his debut in Carolina Blue.
North Carolina vs. TCU Week 1 Betting Lines
Spread: TCU -3
Total: 57.5
Money Line: TCU -155, North Carolina +135
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North Carolina Tar Heels Weekly Matchup
On Monday, September 1, 2025, the North Carolina Tar Heels will host the TCU Horned Frogs at Kenan Memorial Stadium in Chapel Hill, NC. Kickoff time is 8 p.m. ET, with television coverage on ESPN.
After experiencing a 5-7 hangover in 2023 from a national championship game appearance in 2022, TCU bounced back this past season with a 9-4 record, including a New Mexico Bowl victory over Louisiana. Both the offense and defense pulled their weights with top-40 FBS marks in PFF grade and EPA per play. And both units have encouraging pieces returning.
The offense features one of the Big 12’s best quarterbacks, Josh Hoover, along with several pass-catching weapons. The defense boasts a strong secondary, headlined by top-10 safety Bud Clark. The Horned Frogs have some question marks to answer in their trenches, though.
North Carolina Tar Heels Weekly Preview and Recap
Mack Brown’s second coming as head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels was an overall success. Brown produced six bowl games in six seasons and led the Tar Heels to a final ranking of 13th in 2020. Yet there was a sense of unfulfillment among the North Carolina faithful. What Brown accomplished proved not to be enough for UNC fans.
After being rejected by the most desperate of NFL teams due to his reputation as an insufferable bore, Bill Belichick found himself in a desperate and hopeless situation. The financial support of donors who were previously unwilling will now be given to the 73-year-old Belichick. Will it work? Gamblers can find opinions from all points of the spectrum. One thing that everyone can agree on is that the Hoodie will rate alongside Colorado’s Deion Sanders in terms of box office, TV eyeballs, and betting activity.
It’s the greatest football coach of all time, coaching football. That's what the man does, so yeah, if you're in North Carolina, you give it a shot no matter what.
These things don’t always work.
History shows that Bill Walsh had a great 1992 season at Stanford and then went 7-14 over his last two seasons. Lovie Smith struggled at Illinois, Chip Kelly fought the good fight at UCLA, Dave Wannstedt was just okay at Pitt, and there’s a Mike Riley here, and a Bill Callahan there, who went from being an NFL head coach to the unrelenting life of a college head man.
The concern about Belichick going to North Carolina has one major theme. The game has changed, and the world has changed. Can Belichick? NFL head coaches have become relatively cookie-cutter - seriously, off the top of your head, name all 32 of them - the star power is in the college ranks now, and there’s something these coaches like about being able to control everything in their world.
No one in the NFL was going to give Belichick all the power he had when things were rocking at New England; he still wants to coach football, and North Carolina is a fine place to do it.
2025 North Carolina Tar Heels Football Schedule
| DATE |
OPPONENT |
SCORE |
RECORD |
| Sep 1 |
vs. TCU Horned Frogs |
- |
- |
| Sep 6 |
at Charlotte 49ers |
- |
- |
| Sep 13 |
vs. Richmond Spiders |
- |
- |
| Sep 20 |
at UCF Knights |
- |
- |
| Sep 27 |
OFF |
| Oct 4 |
vs. Clemson Tigers |
- |
- |
| Oct 11 |
OFF |
| Oct 17 |
at California Golden Bears |
- |
- |
| Oct 25 |
vs. Virginia Cavaliers |
- |
- |
| Oct 31 |
at Syracuse Orange |
- |
- |
| Nov 8 |
vs. Stanford Cardinal |
- |
- |
| Nov 15 |
at Wake Forest Demon Deacons |
- |
- |
| Nov 22 |
vs Duke Blue Devils |
- |
- |
| Nov 29 |
at NC State Wolfpack |
- |
- |
Although North Carolina is renowned for its basketball program, it also has an underrated football program. The Tar Heels have nine conference championships and two division titles. North Carolina is a regular on the bowl circuit. However, its last ACC championship was in 1980. Pro Football Hall of Fame members Lawrence Taylor and Chris Hanburger played for UNC.
North Carolina head coach Mack Brown was on his second tour of duty before his departure at the end of 2024. Brown is the winningest coach in North Carolina history and has led the Tar Heels to a school record ten bowl appearances. In his first tour of duty, Brown led the Tar Heels to four Top 20 final finishes with three double-digit win seasons and a final ranking of 6th in 1997. After winning a national championship at Texas and doing ESPN TV work, Brown returned to take over a program that went 2-9 the season before his arrival. Brown led the Tar Heels to bowl games every season since taking command in 2019. In 2020, the Tar Heels finished 13th in the final College Football Playoff (CFP) rankings.
While Brown had prolific offenses in his second tour of duty, he never found a defense to make the team complete.
2025-2026 College Football Schedule
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