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This is a list of seasons completed by the North Carolina Tar Heels football team of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). Since the team's creation in 1888, the Tar Heels have participated in more than 1,100 officially sanctioned games, including 30 bowl games.
The Tar Heels represent University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the NCAA's Atlantic Coast Conference. Although North Carolina began competing in intercollegiate football in 1888, [1] the school's official record generally does not include statistics from before the 1940s, as records from earlier years are often incomplete and inconsistent.
On September 19, 2011, North Carolina self-imposed sanctions against its football program, including forfeiting its wins from the 2008 and 2009 seasons. On March 12, 2012, The NCAA Committee on Infractions stiffened the previously self-imposed sanctions including, inter alia, vacating participation in the '08 and '09 Bowl Games.
FCS: 21 – Chris McNeil, North Carolina A&T State, 1997 Div II: 25.5 – Caleb Murphy, Ferris State University 2022 [123] Div III: 24 – Russ Watson, Worcester State, 2000 [13] * Ron Cox (Fresno State) recorded 28 sacks in 1989, but the NCAA did not start collecting official defensive statistics until 2000. [124]
The 1979 North Carolina Tar Heels football team was an American football team that represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) during the 1979 NCAA Division I-A football season.
Omarion Hampton posted career highs of 35 carries for 244 yards with a key late touchdown that helped North Carolina beat Wake Forest 31-24 on Saturday night, pushing the Tar Heels to bowl ...
Consecutive losses haven’t distracted coach Mack Brown, quarterback Drake Maye and the Tar Heels as they seek the school’s first football conference championship in 42 years.
Linebacker Lawrence Taylor won the award as the Atlantic Coast Conference player of the year. [22]Three North Carolina players received All-America honors. Taylor was a consensus pick, receiving first-team honors from the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), Associated Press (AP), Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), and United Press International (UPI).