As the college football season approaches, the Atlantic Coast Conference is set to welcome three new head coaches to the fray: Jake Dickert (Wake Forest), Frank Reich (Stanford) and arguably the National Football League’s greatest coach of all time in Bill Belichick (North Carolina). CBS Sports analyst Chip Patterson recently ranked the coaches in the conference and surprisingly slotted the NFL icon-turned-college head coach 12th out of seventeen ACC head coaches. Is this a fair placement for Belichick as he enters his first campaign at Chapel Hill? Belichick is nothing short of a legendary figure in the football landscape. The former Patriots head coach led New England to six Super Bowl victories and won two more championships as a defensive coordinator for the New York Giants. After a 23-season tenure with the Patriots, Belichick sought a new challenge and signed with the Tar Heels in a surprising decision ahead of the 2025 campaign. One would wonder how a coach that has a combined eight super bowl champ
