The North Carolina Tar Heels will welcome No. 1 Miami to Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill on Halloween night, with kickoff set for 7:30 p.m. ET on Oct. 31, as the ACC announced Monday. ABC will carry the game though some chance remains that it may be moved exclusively to ESPN.
The newly announced game time and network amps up the pressure on legendary head coach Bill Belichick, in his second season at UNC after being fired by the New England Patriots — the team he took to nine Super Bowls, winning six. But Belichick, 74, has never faced the Hurricanes as a college head coach. He arrived in Chapel Hill in 2025, and the schools last met in 2023, when North Carolina won 41-31, according to UNC. The Tar Heels lead the all-time series 16-11 and have won five straight.
Prime time on a major broadcast network is not a regular stop for the UNC football program. ESPN gave Belichick’s 2025 debut a Labor Day night slot, and 6.6 million viewers watched TCU win 48-14. A 10:30 p.m. ET Friday date against Cal also aired on ESPN. Neither game ran on ABC…