1972 North Carolina Tar Heels football team
| 1972 North Carolina Tar Heels football | |
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ACC champion | |
Sun Bowl, W 32–28 vs. Texas Tech | |
| Conference | Atlantic Coast Conference |
| Ranking | |
| Coaches | No. 14 |
| AP | No. 12 |
| 1972 record | 11–1 (6–0 ACC) |
| Head coach | Bill Dooley (6th year) |
| Offensive coordinator | Bobby Collins (6th year) |
| 1972 ACC football standings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Conf | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| #12 North Carolina $ | 6 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 11 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| #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 college 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. [3]
Schedule
| Date | Opponent# | Rank# | Site | TV | Result | Attendance | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 9 | Richmond* | Kenan Memorial Stadium • Chapel Hill, NC | W 28-18 | ||||||
| September 16 | Maryland | Byrd Stadium • College Park, MD | W 31-26 | ||||||
| September 23 | North Carolina State | Kenan Memorial Stadium • Chapel Hill, NC (Rivalry) | W 34-33 | ||||||
| September 30 | at No. 5 Ohio State* | Ohio Stadium • Columbus, OH | L 14-29 | 86,180 | |||||
| October 14 | Kentucky* | Kenan Memorial Stadium • Chapel Hill, NC | W 31-20 | ||||||
| October 21 | at Wake Forest | Groves Stadium • Winston-Salem, NC (Rivalry) | W 21-0 | 27,000 | |||||
| November 4 | at Clemson | Memorial Stadium • Clemson, SC | W 26-10 | 41,000 | |||||
| November 11 | Virginia | No. 18 | Kenan Memorial Stadium • Chapel Hill, NC (South's Oldest Rivalry) | W 23-3 | |||||
| November 18 | Duke | No. 16 | Kenan Memorial Stadium • Chapel Hill, NC (Victory Bell) | W 14-0 | |||||
| November 25 | East Carolina* | No. 15 | Kenan Memorial Stadium • Chapel Hill, NC | W 42-19 | |||||
| December 9 | vs. Florida* | No. 16 | Gator Bowl • Jacksonville, FL | W 28-14 | |||||
| December 30 | vs. Texas Tech* | No. 16 | Sun Bowl • El Paso, TX (Sun Bowl) | CBS | W 32-28 | 27,877 | |||
*Non-conference game.  Homecoming. #Rankings from AP Poll. | |||||||||
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".
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