Army vs. North Carolina

Army and North Carolina have 7 meetings on file, the first in 1944; North Carolina leads the series 6–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 7 meetings it’s North Carolina 6–⁠1, and North Carolina has won the last 6.

Army wins
1
North Carolina wins
6
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1944
Longest streak
6 North Carolina
Current streak
6 North Carolina
Last 10 meetings
North Carolina 6–⁠1
Most recent
1992

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s1–⁠0
1970s0–⁠3
1980s0–⁠1
1990s0–⁠2
Average margin
25 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Army
1–⁠3 Army’s record at home
At North Carolina
3–⁠0 North Carolina’s record at home
Shutouts
1

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

Games that tell the story

  1. Army’s biggest win1944: Army 46, North Carolina 0by 46 points
  2. North Carolina’s biggest win1982: North Carolina 62, Army 8by 54 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Army and North Carolina, 1944 on13001500170019501960197019801990200020102020

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.

From the newspapers

  • The The Wilmington morning star's story of the 1944 game: SOUTHERN TEAMS UPSET CUESSERS

    1944 · The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, Oct 2, 1944

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 19, 1992North Carolina 22, Army 9at North Carolina
Sep 21, 1991North Carolina 20, Army 12at Army
Sep 25, 198211North Carolina 62, Army 8at North Carolina
Sep 29, 1979North Carolina 41, Army 3at Army
Sep 25, 197616North Carolina 34, Army 32at Army
Nov 16, 1974North Carolina 56, Army 42at North Carolina
Sep 30, 1944Army 46, North Carolina 0at Army

Every game is listed as played on the field.