The time and date for Invoice Belichick’s official North Carolina debut are set. The Tar Heels will host TCU at 7:30 p.m. ET on Monday, Sept. 1 — Labor Day — on ESPN, the ACC introduced Thursday. 

Which means Belichick, who has generated loads of buzz after embarking on the primary collegiate teaching problem of his profession, can be entrance and middle in primetime on one of many greatest sports activities holidays on the calendar. 

TCU coach Sonny Dykes, who’s getting into his fourth yr with the Horned Frogs, has confronted off in opposition to a high-profile debuting coach earlier than. TCU opened the 2023 season in opposition to Colorado and its new coach Deion Sanders. Sanders, like Belichick, was essentially the most buzzworthy rent of his teaching carousel. 

“I believe like lots of people, I used to be simply stunned,” Dykes advised CBS Sports activities following Belichick’s transfer to North Carolina. “I did not know that he had curiosity in teaching faculty soccer, however I am enthusiastic about it. I believe it is good for the sport, I believe it is good for school soccer … we’re wanting ahead to competing in opposition to him. Clearly, his workforce goes to be very properly ready and, I am positive, able to play.”

Belichick is inheriting a North Carolina workforce that went 6-7 in 2024, capped by a 27-14 loss to UConn within the Fenway Bowl. Belichick is changing former nationwide championship-winning (at Texas) coach Mack Brown, who had two separate stints with the Tar Heels for a complete report of 113-79-1.