A Few UNC Bowl Notes

[andrew jones]

Just a few UNC bowl notes I threw together for you:

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*The Tar Heels are 6-2 in bowl games played in Florida, which is where Tuesday's game will be played:

Here are UNC's results in bowl games played in the Sunshine State:

Gator Bowl - Dec. 28, 1963
- UNC 35, Air Force 0 (50,018)

Gator Bowl - Dec. 31, 1971
- Georgia 7, UNC 3 (71,208)

Gator Bowl - Dec. 28, 1979
- UNC 17, Michigan 15 (70,407)

Gator Bowl - Dec. 28, 1981
- UNC 31, Arkansas 27 (71,009)

Gator Bowl - Dec. 31, 1993
- Alabama 24, UNC 10 (67,205)

Carquest Bowl - Dec. 30, 1995
- UNC 20, Arkansas 10 (34,428)

Gator Bowl - Jan. 1, 1997
- UNC 20, West Virginia 10 (45,202)

Gator Bowl - Jan. 1, 1998
- UNC 42, Virginia Tech 3 (54,116)

*The Tar Heels are 4-3 in bowl games versus teams currently in the Big 12 conference, of which Baylor, this week's opponent, is a member. Here are those results:

Sugar Bowl - Jan. 1, 1949
- Oklahoma 14, UNC 6 (82,000)

Sun Bowl - Dec. 30, 1972
- UNC 32, Texas Tech 28 (31,312)

Bluebonnet Bowl - Dec. 31, 1980
- UNC 16, Texas 7 (36,667)

Sun Bowl - Dec. 25, 1982
- UNC 26, Texas 10 (31,359)

Sun Bowl - Dec. 30, 1994
- Texas 35, UNC 30 (50,612)

Gator Bowl - Jan. 1, 1997
- UNC 20, West Virginia 10 (45,202)

Meineke Car Care Bowl - Dec. 27, 2008
- West Virginia 31, UNC 30 (73,712)

*The Tar Heels (14-17 in bowl games) have played bowl games in 9 different states, with the most games coming in Florida. UNC's game versus Baylor on Tuesday will be the program's 9th bowl game in Florida. Here is UNC's record by state in bowl games:

Florida - 6-2
Texas - 3-3
Georgia - 2-3
Tennessee - 1-1
Nevada - 1-0
North Carolina - 1-3
Louisiana - 0-3
Hawaii - 0-1
Michigan - 0-1

*The largest crowd to see the Tar Heels play a bowl game was 82,000 versus Oklahoma in the 1949 Sugar Bowl.

*The smallest crowd to see the Tar Heels in a bowl game was 21,429 versus San Diego State in the 1998 Las Vegas Bowl.