North Carolina vs. Richmond

North Carolina and Richmond have 12 meetings on file, the first in 1906; North Carolina leads the series 10–⁠2 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s North Carolina 8–⁠2.

North Carolina wins
10
Richmond wins
2
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1906
Longest streak
5 North Carolina
Current streak
1 North Carolina
Last 10 meetings
North Carolina 8–⁠2
Most recent
2025

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s4–⁠0
1910s1–⁠0
1940s1–⁠1
1970s3–⁠1
2020s1–⁠0
Average margin
18.6 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At North Carolina
8–⁠0 North Carolina’s record at home
At Richmond
2–⁠2 Richmond’s record at home
Shutouts
6

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

Games that tell the story

  1. North Carolina’s biggest win1914: North Carolina 41, Richmond 0by 41 points
  2. Richmond’s biggest win1978: Richmond 27, North Carolina 18by 9 points
  3. Upset1940: Richmond 14, North Carolina 13Richmond had a 25% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  4. Upset1978: Richmond 27, North Carolina 18Richmond had a 33% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of North Carolina and Richmond, 1906 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

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.

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1940 game

    1940 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 10, 1940

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

Sep 13, 2025North Carolina 41, Richmond 6at North Carolina
Nov 4, 1978Richmond 27, North Carolina 18at Richmond
Sep 17, 1977North Carolina 31, Richmond 0at North Carolina
Sep 9, 1972North Carolina 28, Richmond 18at North Carolina
Sep 11, 1971North Carolina 28, Richmond 0at Richmond
Nov 8, 1941North Carolina 27, Richmond 0at Richmond
Nov 9, 1940Richmond 14, North Carolina 13at Richmond
Sep 29, 1914North Carolina 41, Richmond 0at North Carolina
Oct 31, 1909North Carolina 22, Richmond 0at North Carolina
Oct 31, 1908North Carolina 17, Richmond 12at North Carolina
Nov 16, 1907North Carolina 13, Richmond 11at North Carolina
Oct 12, 1906North Carolina 12, Richmond 0at North Carolina

Every game is listed as played on the field.