North Carolina vs. Texas

North Carolina and Texas have 9 meetings on file, the first in 1947; Texas leads the series 6–⁠3 in the games on file. Over the last 9 meetings it’s Texas 6–⁠3, and Texas has won the last 3.

North Carolina wins
3
Texas wins
6
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1947
Longest streak
3 Texas
Current streak
3 Texas
Last 10 meetings
Texas 6–⁠3
Most recent
2002

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s1–⁠1
1950s0–⁠2
1980s2–⁠0
1990s0–⁠1
2000s0–⁠2
Average margin
21.9 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At North Carolina
1–⁠2 North Carolina’s record at home
At Texas
3–⁠0 Texas’s record at home
Neutral sites
2–⁠1 North Carolina first
Shutouts
1

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

Games that tell the story

  1. North Carolina’s biggest win1948: North Carolina 34, Texas 7by 27 points
  2. Texas’s biggest win1947: Texas 34, North Carolina 0by 34 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of North Carolina and Texas, 1947 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

Priest Holmes Texas1994
T.B. Rob Rogers North Carolina1982
T.B. Ethan Horton North Carolina1982
T.B. Brooks Barwick North Carolina1982
Amos Lawrence1980
Steve Streater1980

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

From the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story of the 1947 game: Rs%H0 FOOTBALL | SCORES

    1947 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Oct 6, 1947

  • The Evening star's story of the 1948 game: Justice, Rodgers Star In Avenging. Al Loss To Longhorn Team

    1948 · Evening star, Sep 26, 1948

  • The Evening star's story of the 1952 game

    1952 · Evening star, Sep 28, 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

Sep 14, 20023Texas 52, North Carolina 21at North Carolina
Sep 8, 20014Texas 44, North Carolina 14at Texas
Dec 30, 1994Texas 35, 19North Carolina 31Neutral siteSun Bowl
Dec 25, 1982North Carolina 26, 8Texas 10Neutral siteSun Bowl
Dec 31, 198013North Carolina 16, Texas 7Neutral siteAstro-Bluebonnet Bowl
Sep 27, 195211Texas 28, North Carolina 7at North Carolina
Oct 6, 19516Texas 45, North Carolina 20at Texas
Sep 25, 1948North Carolina 34, Texas 7at North Carolina
Oct 4, 1947Texas 34, North Carolina 0at Texas

Every game is listed as played on the field.