Georgia vs. North Carolina
Georgia and North Carolina have 24 meetings on file, the first in 1913; Georgia leads the series 16–6–2 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Georgia 9–1, and Georgia has won the last 5. Share
- Georgia wins
- 16
- North Carolina wins
- 6
- Ties
- 2
- Earliest on file
- 1913
- Longest streak
- 5 Georgia
- Current streak
- 5 Georgia
- Last 10 meetings
- Georgia 9–1
- Most recent
- 2016
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 1–1 | ||||||||||
| 1920s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 1930s | 3–1–1 | ||||||||||
| 1940s | 1–3 | ||||||||||
| 1950s | 5–0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1960s | 3–1 | ||||||||||
| 1970s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 2010s | 1–0 |
- Both ranked
- 2 meetings: Georgia 2, North Carolina 0
- Average margin
- 14.3 points; 5 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Georgia
- 6–3–2 Georgia’s record at home
- At North Carolina
- 3–7 North Carolina’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 3–0 Georgia first
- Shutouts
- 3
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Georgia’s biggest win1933: Georgia 30, North Carolina 0by 30 points
- North Carolina’s biggest win1914: North Carolina 41, Georgia 6by 35 points
- Upset1934: North Carolina 14, Georgia 0North Carolina had a 26% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Upset1929: Georgia 19, North Carolina 12Georgia had a 33% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Upset1914: North Carolina 41, Georgia 6North Carolina had a 34% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Ranked showdown1946: Georgia 20, North Carolina 10No. 11 North Carolina at No. 3 Georgia
- Ranked showdown2016: Georgia 33, North Carolina 24No. 18 Georgia at No. 22 North Carolina
Coach against coach
| Years | Georgia | Series | North Carolina |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1929–1933 | Harry Mehre | 4–0–1 | Chuck Collins |
| 1946–1951 | Wallace Butts | 2–3–1 | Carl Snavely |
| 1953–1955 | Wallace Butts | 3–0 | George Barclay |
| 1964–1966 | Vince Dooley | 3–0 | James Hickey |
Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Georgia’s side (Mehre 4–0–1 against Collins). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.
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
| Nick Chubb Georgia | 32 carries, 222 yards, 2 TD | 2016 Rushing |
Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on). Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
From the newspapers
1913 · The Birmingham age-herald, Birmingham, Ala., Nov 2, 1913
1914 · The Birmingham age-herald, Oct 18, 1914
1929 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 20, 1929
1930 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 19, 1930
1931 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 19, 1931
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
Every game is listed as played on the field.