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North Carolina blitzed Duke early thanks to hot shooting from Cam Johnson to put North Carolina up 33–20 over Duke with about 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 minutes left in the 1st half. Duke's Zion Williamson finally got going and scored 12 of Duke's last 24 points of the half to help Duke comeback and tie the score at 44 points a piece at halftime.
After losing the Victory Bell in 2003, North Carolina came back the next year and beat Duke 40–17 in Duke's Wallace Wade Stadium. [3] After the conclusion of the game, North Carolina football players immediately spray-painted the platform Carolina blue, leaving large amounts of Carolina blue paint residue on the track of the stadium. [ 7 ]
The Wake–Duke rivalry is the oldest basketball rivalry among the four schools in that it dates back to the 1905–06 season and was the first intercollegiate basketball game in North Carolina. The Wake-Duke rivalry is just ahead of the more well known UNC-Duke rivalry in terms of games played by two games.
North Carolina enters the matchup No. 3 in both the USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll and AP Top 25 while Duke is No. 7. It will be the first top-10 game between the rivals since 2019.
Duke and North Carolina were on a collision course to meet in the national title game 31 years ago. It's a scenario that still haunts former Tar Heels to this day.
The North Carolina Tar Heels held on to defeat the Duke Blue Devils 47-45 in two overtimes in Chapel Hill, N.C. Saturday night, Nov. 11, 2023. ... North Carolina’s Drake Maye is sacked by Duke ...
Wake Forest and North Carolina have met 110 times, with North Carolina holding a 72–36–2 series lead. The first game between the two teams, in 1888, was the first college football game played in the state of North Carolina. The two teams met annually from 1919 to 2004 until the ACC created the divisional format in 2005. [253] [254]
North Carolina quarterback T. J. Yates with the ball in North Carolina's end-zone during the 2008 Meineke Car Care Bowl.. The North Carolina Tar Heels football team competes as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), representing the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast ...