Georgia Tech vs. North Carolina

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

1. Georgia Tech’s biggest win1985: Georgia Tech 31, North Carolina 0by 31 points
2. North Carolina’s biggest win1982: North Carolina 41, Georgia Tech 0by 41 points
3. Upset2022: Georgia Tech 21, North Carolina 17Georgia Tech had a 15% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1998: Georgia Tech 43, North Carolina 21Georgia Tech had a 27% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset2021: Georgia Tech 45, North Carolina 22Georgia Tech had a 28% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
6. Ranked showdown2008: North Carolina 28, Georgia Tech 7No. 22 Georgia Tech at No. 19 North Carolina
7. Ranked showdown2001: Georgia Tech 28, North Carolina 21No. 22 North Carolina at No. 23 Georgia Tech

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Georgia Tech’s side (Alexander 4–⁠1–⁠2 against Collins). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

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.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

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  1916 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 22, 1916

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  1927 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 23, 1927

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  1930 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 2, 1930

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  1933 · The Bismarck tribune. (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, North Dakota, Oct 30, 1933

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  1943 · Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, Sep 26, 1943

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 is listed as played on the field; a win the NCAA later vacated is marked “vacated”; the official series above counts them the NCAA’s way.

• Georgia Tech vs. Georgia114 meetings, Georgia Tech 40–⁠69–⁠5
• Georgia Tech vs. Duke93 meetings, Georgia Tech 57–⁠35–⁠1
• Georgia Tech vs. Clemson88 meetings, Georgia Tech 52–⁠34–⁠2
• Georgia Tech vs. Auburn86 meetings, Georgia Tech 41–⁠42–⁠3
• North Carolina vs. Virginia120 meetings, North Carolina 65–⁠51–⁠4
• North Carolina vs. Wake Forest107 meetings, North Carolina 71–⁠34–⁠2
• North Carolina vs. Duke106 meetings, North Carolina 64–⁠38–⁠4
• North Carolina vs. NC State106 meetings, North Carolina 60–⁠41–⁠5