Miami vs. North Carolina

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

1. Miami’s biggest win2018: Miami 47, North Carolina 10by 37 points
2. North Carolina’s biggest win2015: North Carolina 59, Miami 21by 38 points
3. Upset2004: North Carolina 31, Miami 28North Carolina had a 17% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1957: North Carolina 20, Miami 13North Carolina had a 23% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1952: North Carolina 34, Miami 7North Carolina had a 32% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
6. Ranked showdown2020: North Carolina 62, Miami 26No. 20 North Carolina at No. 9 Miami
7. Ranked showdown2023: North Carolina 41, Miami 31No. 25 Miami at No. 12 North Carolina

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Miami’s side (Gustafson 3–⁠1 against Hickey). 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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  1946 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 8, 1946

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  1952 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Dec 2, 1952

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.

• Miami vs. Florida State71 meetings, Miami 38–⁠33
• Miami vs. Florida58 meetings, Miami 31–⁠27
• Miami vs. Pittsburgh43 meetings, Miami 30–⁠12–⁠1
• Miami vs. Virginia Tech42 meetings, Miami 27–⁠15
• 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