North Carolina defeat Texas Christian as college football kicks off season in Dublin – in pictures
Bill Belichick’s North Carolina Tar Heels held off the TCU Horned Frogs in a low-scoring affair at Dublin’s Aviva Stadium on Saturday in the first major college football game of the 2026 season College football is booming, chaotic and more confusing than ever
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