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. Share
- 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
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 1–1 | ||||||||||
| 1950s | 0–2 | ||||||||||
| 1980s | 2–0 | ||||||||||
| 1990s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 2000s | 0–2 |
- 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
- North Carolina’s biggest win1948: North Carolina 34, Texas 7by 27 points
- Texas’s biggest win1947: Texas 34, North Carolina 0by 34 points
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
Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
From the newspapers

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

1948 · Evening star, Sep 26, 1948

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, 2002 | 3Texas 52, North Carolina 21 | at North Carolina | ||
| Sep 8, 2001 | 4Texas 44, North Carolina 14 | at Texas | ||
| Dec 30, 1994 | Texas 35, 19North Carolina 31 | Neutral site | Sun Bowl | |
| Dec 25, 1982 | North Carolina 26, 8Texas 10 | Neutral site | Sun Bowl | |
| Dec 31, 1980 | 13North Carolina 16, Texas 7 | Neutral site | Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl | |
| Sep 27, 1952 | 11Texas 28, North Carolina 7 | at North Carolina | ||
| Oct 6, 1951 | 6Texas 45, North Carolina 20 | at Texas | ||
| Sep 25, 1948 | North Carolina 34, Texas 7 | at North Carolina | ||
| Oct 4, 1947 | Texas 34, North Carolina 0 | at Texas |
Every game is listed as played on the field.