North Carolina vs. Rice

Rice won their only meeting, in 1949.

North Carolina wins
0
Rice wins
1
Ties
0
First meeting
1949
Longest streak
1 Rice
Current streak
1 Rice
Last 10 meetings
Rice 1–⁠0
Most recent
1949

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of North Carolina and Rice, 1949 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.

Stars of the series

Named most valuable

Billy Burkhalter Rice1949
Joe Watson Rice1949
James Williams Rice1949

Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1949 game: North Carolina Coach Has No Excuses for 27-13Loss 10 Rice

    1949 · Evening star, Jan 3, 1950

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

Jan 2, 19507Rice 27, 19North Carolina 13Neutral siteCotton Bowl

Every game is listed as played on the field.