ACC commissioner reveals national network wants more 2025 UNC football games televised
ACC commissioner reveals national network wants more 2025 UNC football games televised How many times will UNC play in front of a national audience during its 2025 football season?
Love him or hate him, Bill Belichick is must-watch television. I'm not talking about Bill being a comedy show or reality TV star, but Bill being the greatest football coach to walk this Earth.
Belichick won eight Super Bowls in the NFL: two as the New York Giants' defensive coordinator, plus six more as the New England Patriots' head coach. Belichick will now try to prove his coaching prowess entering Year One at the college level, with the North Carolina Tar Heels hiring him to be their head coach, back in December 2024.
Despite making bowl games in each of its past six seasons, UNC doesn't exactly provide must-watch football on television.
With Belichick leading the show in Chapel Hill now, that could very well change. On Wednesday, ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips said ESPN wants to televise more North Carolina football games in 2025.
"ESPN ran to us, before we could even run to them (about televising more UNC games)," Phillips said. "It's a great thing for the ACC, a great thing for North Carolina and we are all following the massive coverage that Coach Belichick draws."
We know ESPN will feature at least one Tar Heel football game this coming fall: their 2025 season-opener on Monday, September 1 at 8 p.m.(previously reported at 7:30 p.m.) against the TCU Horned Frogs.
North Carolina features a few other national television-potential games on its schedule: Saturday, Sept. 20 at UCF, Saturday, October 4 against Clemson in Kenan Stadium and Saturday, November 29 at NC State. You can make a case for UNC-Syracuse on Friday, Oct. 31 being a national TV game, while UNC-Duke on Nov. 22 is the always-popular Victory Bell battle.
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