{"id":542039,"date":"2017-09-01T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=542039"},"modified":"2026-07-26T14:19:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:19:00","slug":"carolina-opens-2017-saturday-with-cal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=542039","title":{"rendered":"Carolina Opens 2017 Saturday With Cal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/goheels.com\/news\/2017\/9\/1\/football-carolina-opens-2017-saturday-with-cal.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>CHAPEL HILL &#8212; Carolina kicks off its 127th season of football Saturday when the Tar Heels host California at 12:20 p.m. at Kenan Stadium. Led by head coach Larry Fedora, who is now in his sixth season at the helm, UNC finished 8-5 in 2016. The Tar Heels won 19 games over the last two seasons, the best two-year run for the program since 1996-97 (21 combined wins). Cal went 5-7 a season ago and enters 2017 with a new head coach in Justin Wilcox, who came to Berkeley after 16 seasons as an assistant, most recently as the defensive coordinator at Wisconsin. <a href=\"http:\/\/goheels.com\/news\/2017\/9\/1\/football-carolina-opens-2017-saturday-with-cal.aspx\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/goheels.com\/news\/2017\/9\/1\/football-carolina-opens-2017-saturday-with-cal.aspx\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Carolina Opens 2017 Saturday With Cal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Goheels.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL &#8212; Carolina kicks off its 127th season of football Saturday when the Tar Heels host California at 12:20 p.m. at Kenan Stadium. Led by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542039","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=542039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1923647,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542039\/revisions\/1923647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=542039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=542039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=542039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}