North Carolina vs. Rice
Rice won their only meeting, in 1949. Share
- 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
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 Rice | 1949 |
| Joe Watson Rice | 1949 |
| James Williams Rice | 1949 |
Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
From the newspapers

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, 1950 | 7Rice 27, 19North Carolina 13 | Neutral site | Cotton Bowl |
Every game is listed as played on the field.