1972 North Carolina Tar Heels football team
American college football season
1972 North Carolina Tar Heels football | |
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ACC champion
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Sun Bowl
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Texas Tech
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Conference | Atlantic Coast Conference |
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Coaches | No. 14 |
AP | No. 12 |
Record | 11–1 (6–0 ACC) |
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Offensive coordinator | Bobby Collins (6th season) |
Captain | Gene Brown, Ron Rusnak |
Home stadium | Kenan Memorial Stadium |
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Conf | Overall | |||||||||||
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Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||
No. 12 North Carolina $ | 6 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 11 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||
No. 17 NC State | 4 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 8 | – | 3 | – | 1 | ||
Maryland | 3 | – | 2 | – | 1 | 5 | – | 5 | – | 1 | ||
Duke | 3 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||
Clemson | 2 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||
Virginia | 1 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||
Wake Forest | 1 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 9 | – | 0 | ||
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The 1972 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the North Carolina Tar Heels of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season . [2] The team won its second consecutive Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) championship, going 6–0 in conference play, and played in the 1972 Sun Bowl , defeating Texas Tech by a score of 32–28. The Tar Heels ended the year ranked 12th in the AP Poll with an 11–1 record—the lone loss coming at Ohio State in their fourth game. [3] This was the first of only four seasons where North Carolina was able to win 11 games.
Schedule
Date | Time | Opponent | Rank | Site | TV | Result | Attendance | Source |
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September 9 | 1:30 p.m. | Richmond * | W 28–18 | 31,500 | [4] | |||
September 16 | 1:30 p.m. | Maryland | W 31–26 | 28,000 | ||||
September 23 | 1:30 p.m. | NC State |
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W 34–33 | 47,000 | |||
September 30 | 1:30 p.m. [5] | at No. 5 Ohio State * | L 14–29 | 86,180 [6] | ||||
October 14 | 1:30 p.m. | Kentucky * |
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W 31–20 | 42,500 | |||
October 21 | 1:30 p.m. | at Wake Forest | W 21–0 | 27,000 | ||||
November 4 | 1:30 p.m. | at Clemson | W 26–10 | 41,000 | ||||
November 11 | 1:30 p.m. | Virginia | No. 18 |
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W 23–3 | 36,500 | ||
November 18 | 1:30 p.m. | Duke | No. 16 |
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W 14–0 | 47,000 | ||
November 25 | 1:30 p.m. | East Carolina * | No. 15 |
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W 42–19 | 31,600 | [7] | |
December 9 | 2:00 p.m. | vs. Florida * | No. 16 | W 28–24 | 33,103 | |||
December 30 | 1:00 p.m. | vs. Texas Tech * | No. 16 | CBS | W 32–28 | 27,877 | ||
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Personnel
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Offense
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Defense
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Special teams
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Season summary
Ohio State
Period | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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North Carolina | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 14 |
Ohio St | 3 | 6 | 14 | 6 | 29 |
at Ohio Stadium , Columbus, Ohio
- Date : September 30, 1972
- Game time : 1:30 p.m.
- Game weather : Cloudy, 49 °F (9 °C)
- Game attendance : 86,180
- Box Score
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References
- ↑ "1972 Atlantic Coast Conference Year Summary" . sports-reference.com . Retrieved January 25, 2013 .
- ↑ "1972 North Carolina Tar Heels" . College Football at Sports-Reference.com .
- ↑ "1972 Final AP Football Poll" .
- ↑ "Tar Heels rush past Richmond, 28–18" . The News and Observer . September 9, 1972 . Retrieved October 28, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
- ↑ "The Akron Beacon Journal from Akron, Ohio on September 30, 1972 · Page 3 (newspapers.com)" .
- ↑ "The Akron Beacon Journal from Akron, Ohio on October 1, 1972 · Page 55 (newspapers.com)" .
- ↑ "Carolina runs through Pirates, 42–19" . The News and Observer . November 26, 1972 . Retrieved March 3, 2021 – via Newspapers.com .
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