UNC football ’s first season with Bill Belichick has produced the program’s worst start against Power 4 competition since the Tar Heels first fielded a team in 1888.

It’s been nearly 137 years since UNC played its inaugural game against Wake Forest at the North Carolina State Fair, a matchup that ended with the Demon Deacons earning a 6-4 win.

No squad since the program’s inception has been worse than Belichick’s team through three Power 4 games.

The Tar Heels (2-3, 0-1 ACC) have lost each of their three games against P4 programs, outscored 120-33 in blowout defeats vs. TCU, UCF and Clemson. That 87-point margin in the first three games against P4 teams is the worst in program history.

Even the 2006 Tar Heels, who finished with a 3-9 record in John Bunting’s final season, were 12 point

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