UNC listed as underdog ahead of Bill Belichick’s 1st game: What to know

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WBTV) - Bill Belichick is the underdog ahead of his first game at UNC -- at least that’s how bettors see it.

Belichick -- the same man who led the Patriots to six Super Bowl titles -- was hired in December to revitalize a Tar Heels football program that struggled to a sub-.500 record in 2024.

The legendary coach’s stop at the University of North Carolina is his first foray into college football, but he previously said that he would run the UNC program like he would a pro one.

“If I was in a college program, the college program would be a pipeline to the NFL,” Belichick said two days before he was hired. “It would be a professional program ... training, nutrition, scheme, coaching, techniques ... that would transfer to the NFL. It would be an NFL program at a colle