Kenan Stadium’s Monday-night stage promises fireworks. North Carolina’s opener against TCU is a Labor Day appetizer. But it’s also the first public stress test of Bill Belichick’s whirlwind rebuild. The six-time Super Bowl-winning head coach slips on Carolina blue for the first time, armed with professional expectations and a depth chart that hardly resembles last year’s roster. Fans will see fresh faces at nearly every position, and the curiosity factor alone has Chapel Hill buzzing louder than a Franklin Street block party.

Skepticism, though, has trailed the Tar Heels all summer. More than 70 newcomers, most plucked from the transfer portal, make this one of college football’s most radical overhauls. Pundits wonder whether a group this green can jell in time to face a seasoned Horned F

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