{"id":1601,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/1601","headline":"No. 1 Miami heads to Chapel Hill for Halloween night showdown","dek":"The unbeaten Hurricanes face a North Carolina team that has won the last five meetings in the series.","body":"Miami, ranked No. 1 and sitting at 7-0 overall and 5-0 in the ACC, travels to Kenan Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 31, 2026, for a 7:30 p.m. ET kickoff against North Carolina. The Hurricanes are coming off a 52-23 blowout of Pittsburgh and have been dominant on both sides of the ball, averaging 49 points per game while allowing just 15.3.\n\nNorth Carolina enters at 4-3 and 2-2 in conference play, a 4-way tie for fourth place in the ACC. The Tar Heels are reeling after a 31-30 overtime loss to Syracuse despite leading throughout regulation, and all three of their losses this season have come by 11 points or fewer.\n\nHistory favors the home team on paper. North Carolina leads the all-time series 16-11 and has won each of the past five matchups, including a 41-31 win in 2023 behind Tez Walker and Omarion Hampton. Miami is 3-0 on the road this season, while North Carolina is 1-2 at home. Quarterback Darian Mensah has completed 81.4% of his passes with just one interception in 204 attempts for the Hurricanes offense.","published_at":"2026-10-31T23:05:12.791291+00:00","source_count":3,"written_from":[{"outlet":"CBS Sports","publisher":"CBS Sports","title":"Miami vs. North Carolina prediction, odds, time: Week 9 college football picks via advanced model","url":"https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/miami-north-carolina-prediction-odds-time-spread-week-9-college-football-picks/"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"UNC-Miami (FL) live updates: Score, highlights, predictions, analysis","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/unc-miami-fl-live-updates-213101404.html"},{"outlet":"Fox Sports","publisher":"Fox Sports","title":"How to Watch Miami (FL) vs. North Carolina: TV Channel, Live Stream, Time","url":"https://www.foxsports.com/stories/college-football/how-to-watch-miami-fl-vs-north-carolina-tv-channel-live-stream-time-oct-31-2026"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"UNC vs. Miami game preview, info, prediction and more","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/unc-vs-miami-game-preview-123030628.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Re-visiting UNC-Miami ahead of Saturday's primetime ACC battle","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/visiting-unc-miami-ahead-saturdays-151431075.html"},{"outlet":"CBS Sports","publisher":"CBS Sports","title":"Miami vs. North Carolina prediction, odds, time: Week 9 college football picks from proven model","url":"https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/miami-north-carolina-prediction-odds-time-week-9-college-football-picks/"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Where to watch UNC vs. Miami today: Channel, live stream, time, schedule for Tar Heels vs. Hurricanes","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/where-watch-unc-vs-miami-073001470.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"How to watch UNC Football try to upset Miami","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/watch-unc-football-try-upset-130000241.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"UNC vs. Miami Live Discussion","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/unc-vs-miami-live-discussion-230344387.html"}],"image":{"url":"https://sportshub.cbsistatic.com/i/2026/10/03/5db66f36-61b7-47c5-883f-6b303f35333f/bill-belichick-north-carolina-tar-heels-imagn-images.jpg","credit":"CBS Sports","width":1920},"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}