North Carolina vs. Rutgers
North Carolina and Rutgers have 6 meetings on file, the first in 1919; officially, Rutgers leads 3–2; as played, 3–3 in the games on file. Over the last 6 meetings it’s even at 3–3. The NCAA vacated North Carolina’s win (2008); it doesn’t count officially. This page counts every game as it was played. Share
- Official series
- Rutgers leads 3–2
- North Carolina wins on file
- 3
- Rutgers wins on file
- 3
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1919
- Longest streak
- 3 North Carolina
- Current streak
- 1 Rutgers
- Last 10 meetings
- even at 3–3
- Most recent
- 2014
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 12 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At North Carolina
- 1–1 North Carolina’s record at home
- At Rutgers
- 1–2 Rutgers’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 0–1 North Carolina first
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- North Carolina’s biggest win2008: North Carolina 44, Rutgers 12by 32 points
- Rutgers’s biggest win2014: Rutgers 40, North Carolina 21by 19 points
- Upset2010: North Carolina 17, Rutgers 13North Carolina had a 33% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Upset2008: North Carolina 44, Rutgers 12North Carolina had a 34% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
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
| Rutgers RB Josh Hicks | 2014 |
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

1919 · New-York tribune, Oct 5, 1919
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
| Dec 26, 2014 | Rutgers 40, North Carolina 21 | Ford Field | Quick Lane Bowl | |
| Sep 10, 2011 | North Carolina 24, Rutgers 22 | at North Carolina | ||
| Sep 25, 2010 | North Carolina 17, Rutgers 13 | at Rutgers | ||
| Sep 11, 2008 | North Carolina 44, Rutgers 12vacated | at Rutgers | ||
| Sep 2, 2006 | Rutgers 21, North Carolina 16 | at North Carolina | ||
| Oct 4, 1919 | Rutgers 19, North Carolina 9 | at Rutgers |
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.