{"id":1929870,"date":"2026-08-27T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1929870"},"modified":"2026-08-27T12:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:54:09","slug":"football-to-open-2026-season-against-tcu-in-aer-lingus-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1929870","title":{"rendered":"Football To Open 2026 Season Against TCU In Aer Lingus Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aer Lingus Classic Promotional Shoot in Ireland\" src=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/common\/controls\/image_handler.aspx?thumb_prefix=rp_primary&#038;image_path=\/images\/2026\/8\/27\/Ireland.927.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Carolina football will kick off the 2026 season against TCU on Saturday, Aug. 29, in the Aer Lingus College Football Classic held at Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland. The game is set for noon (ET)\/5 p.m. (Irish Time) and air live on ESPN.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/news\/2026\/8\/27\/football-to-open-2026-season-against-tcu-in-aer-lingus-classic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carolina football will kick off the 2026 season against TCU on Saturday, Aug. 29, in the Aer Lingus College Football Classic held at Aviva Stadium in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1929871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1929870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1929870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1929872,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929870\/revisions\/1929872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1929871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1929870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1929870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1929870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}