Momentum has been hard to come by in Chapel Hill this fall, and that’s precisely why the past two weeks matter. Bill Belichick’s North Carolina hasn’t dominated headlines since that lopsided setback against TCU, but it quietly steadied itself with back-to-back wins over lesser-known opponents, using clean defense and a simplified offensive rhythm to reset the narrative. It wasn’t glossy, and it didn’t need to be. After absorbing a gut punch in the opener, stacking workmanlike victories is how a season gets back on track. The task now is turning routine wins into a springboard, not a ceiling.

That springboard increasingly runs through the Chapel Thrill Concert Series, a pregame platform that has evolved into a campus-wide pulse check. Designed to fuse student energy with game-day anticipat

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