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Because the last 12 months haven't been all that kind to North Carolina fans, and because the coming years probably won't be either, I figured I'd be nice in this space today and talk about the best football UNC has produced.
| Top 15 North Carolina Teams of All-Time |
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| Rk | Team | Record | Postseason |
| 1 | 1925 North Carolina | 7-1-1 | |
| 2 | 1997 North Carolina | 11-1 | Gator Bowl (UNC 42, Va. Tech 3) |
| 3 | 1996 North Carolina | 10-2 | Gator Bowl (UNC 20, W. Virginia 13) |
| 4 | 1980 North Carolina | 11-1 | Bluebonnet Bowl (UNC 16, Texas 7) |
| 5 | 1922 North Carolina | 9-1 | |
| 6 | 1935 North Carolina | 8-1 | |
| 7 | 1948 North Carolina | 9-1-1 | Sugar Bowl (Oklahoma 14, UNC 6) |
| 8 | 1939 North Carolina | 8-1-1 | |
| 9 | 1938 North Carolina | 6-2-1 | |
| 10 | 1981 North Carolina | 10-2 | Gator Bowl (UNC 31, Arkansas 27) |
| 11 | 1972 North Carolina | 11-1 | Sun Bowl (UNC 32, Texas Tech 28) |
| 12 | 1947 North Carolina | 8-2 | |
| 13 | 1937 North Carolina | 7-1-1 | |
| 14 | 1929 North Carolina | 9-1 | |
| 15 | 1934 North Carolina | 7-1-1 | |
So basically, the Heels were at their best in the 1920s-1940s, in Lawrence Taylor's time, and at the end of Mack Brown's tenure. This is consistent, actually, with a lot of ACC teams. Programs like North Carolina, Duke, Maryland, etc., established themselves in the period from the 1920s to the early-1950s, then vanished from the face of the earth when the SEC emerged as the nation's pre-eminent football conference in the mid-1950s. The ACC began to have its moments again beginning in the early-1980s, but obviously it hasn't been quite as consistently strong as that other southern conference.
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