{"id":1932598,"date":"2026-09-13T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1932598"},"modified":"2026-09-13T11:43:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:43:27","slug":"tar-heel-takeaways-unc-handles-business-in-home-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1932598","title":{"rendered":"Tar Heel Takeaways: UNC Handles Business In Home Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jelani Thurman \nUniversity of North Carolina Football v East Tennessee State; ETSU \nKenan Stadium \nChapel Hill, NC \nSaturday, September 12, 2026 \" src=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/common\/controls\/image_handler.aspx?thumb_prefix=rp_primary&#038;image_path=\/images\/2026\/9\/12\/Thurman_Jelani.GH1_8750_copy.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After UNC&#8217;s encouraging season-opening win against TCU, Tar Heel fans had to sit through a bye week as the rest of college football world kicked off. But head coach Bill Belichick&#8217;s team picked up where it left off in Dublin and treated the home fans to a 35-3 victory over East Tennessee State Saturday in the first game of the 100th season at Kenan Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/news\/2026\/9\/13\/football-tar-heel-takeaways-unc-handles-business-in-home-opener\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After UNC&#8217;s encouraging season-opening win against TCU, Tar Heel fans had to sit through a bye week as the rest of college football world kicked off&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1932599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1932598","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\/1932598","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=1932598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1932600,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932598\/revisions\/1932600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1932599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1932598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1932598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1932598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}