Top 20 UNC Football Teams: No. 8 - 1972

Posted May 11, 2020
A year after the Tar Heels' rebuilding project under Bill Dooley brought UNC an ACC football championship, a team that used multiple running backs behind an excellent offensive line repeated as ACC champs in 1972 and became the first UNC team to win 11 games. The Tar Heels went 5-1 on the road, its only loss coming at Big Ten champ Ohio State. (Tar Heel Illustrated)

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