App State vs. North Carolina
App State and North Carolina have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1940; North Carolina leads the series 3–1 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s North Carolina 3–1, and North Carolina has won the last 2. Share
- App State wins
- 1
- North Carolina wins
- 3
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1940
- Longest streak
- 2 North Carolina
- Current streak
- 2 North Carolina
- Last 10 meetings
- North Carolina 3–1
- Most recent
- 2023
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 15.3 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At App State
- 0–1 App State’s record at home
- At North Carolina
- 2–1 North Carolina’s record at home
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Both programs through the years
Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.
Stars of the series
Biggest days
| Omarion Hampton North Carolina | 26 carries, 234 yards, 3 TD | 2023 Rushing | |
| Demetrius Taylor App State | 4 tackles, 2.5 sacks, 2.5 for loss, 1 INT, 1 TD | 2019 Defense |
Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).
From the newspapers
1940 · The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, Sep 22, 1940
Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.
Every game
| Sep 9, 2023 | 17North Carolina 40, App State 34 | at North Carolina | ||
| Sep 3, 2022 | North Carolina 63, App State 61 | at App State | ||
| Sep 21, 2019 | App State 34, North Carolina 31 | at North Carolina | ||
| Sep 21, 1940 | North Carolina 56, App State 6 | at North Carolina |
Every game is listed as played on the field.