Week 10 Friday Preview: Orange Hosts Tar Heels within the Dome on Halloween Night

Football
October 31, 2025

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – ACC Football Fridays meet Halloween night time as Syracuse welcomes North Carolina for a primetime showdown at 7:30 p.m. ET on ESPN contained in the JMA Wireless Dome. The matchup kicks off an action-packed Week 10 throughout the ACC — the primary of seven convention clashes on faucet for the weekend.
 
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North Carolina at Syracuse | 7:30 p.m. ET
Series: North Carolina leads sequence, 4-3-0
Last assembly: North Carolina, 40-7 (2023)
TV: ESPN
SiriusXM Radio: SiriusXM 84 / SiriusXM 371
SiriusXM App: SiriusXM 84 / SiriusXM 371 
 
North Carolina has held the higher hand in current matchups with Syracuse, successful two straight to take a 4–3 lead within the all-time sequence. The groups final met in Chapel Hill in 2023, when the Tar Heels rolled to a 40–7 victory.
 
North Carolina remains to be searching for its first ACC win of the season, whereas Syracuse appears so as to add to its convention whole after a formidable early-season victory over Clemson.
 
The Tar Heels have been anchored by one of many nation’s stingiest run defenses, rating twenty fifth nationally whereas permitting simply 110.6 dashing yards per sport, and their self-discipline has stood out — they rank among the many least penalized groups within the nation at solely 5.0 per sport.
 
Syracuse counters with an explosive passing assault that ranks twenty first nationally at 285.5 yards per sport, a key power for an Orange squad that has confronted one of many hardest slates in school soccer, holding the nation’s No. 29 power of schedule.