1998 North Carolina Tar Heels football team

Last updated
1998 North Carolina Tar Heels football
Las Vegas Bowl champion
Conference Atlantic Coast Conference
Record7–5 (5–3 ACC)
Head coach
Offensive coordinatorDarrell Moody (1st season)
Captain Na Brown, Ebenezer Ekuban, Deon Dyer, Keith Newman, Brandon Spoon
Home stadium Kenan Memorial Stadium
(capacity: 60,000)
Seasons
  1997
1999  
1998 Atlantic Coast Conference football standings
ConfOverall
Team W L  W L 
No. 3 Florida State $+  7 1   11 2  
No. 9 Georgia Tech +  7 1   10 2  
No. 18 Virginia  6 2   9 3  
North Carolina  5 3   7 5  
NC State  5 3   7 5  
Duke  2 6   4 7  
Wake Forest  2 6   3 8  
Clemson  1 7   3 8  
Maryland  1 7   3 8  
  • $ BCS representative as conference champion
  • + Conference co-champions
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1998 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1998 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Tar Heels played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and competed in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The team was led by head coach Carl Torbush.

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Schedule

DateTimeOpponentRankSiteTVResultAttendance
September 56:00 p.m. Miami (OH) *No. 12L 10–1360,100
September 196:30 p.m.at Stanford * FSN L 34–3734,198
September 267:30 p.m. Georgia Tech
  • Kenan Memorial Stadium
  • Chapel Hill, NC
ESPN L 21–4359,500
October 33:30 p.m. Clemson
  • Kenan Memorial Stadium
  • Chapel Hill, NC
ABC W 21–1456,650
October 101:30 p.m. Pittsburgh *
  • Kenan Memorial Stadium
  • Chapel Hill, NC
W 29–1050,900
October 2412:00 p.m.at Wake Forest JPS W 38–3125,841
October 317:30 p.m.at No. 5 Florida State ESPNL 13–3980,050
November 712:00 p.m. Maryland Dagger-14-plain.png
  • Kenan Memorial Stadium
  • Chapel Hill, NC
ESPN2 W 24–1351,200
November 143:30 p.m.at No. 21 Virginia ABCL 13–3047,000
November 2112:00 p.m.at Duke JPSW 28–625,740
November 281:00 p.m.vs. NC State ABCW 37–34 OT68,797
December 196:00 p.m.vs. San Diego State *ESPN2W 20–1321,249
  • *Non-conference game
  • Dagger-14-plain.pngHomecoming
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
  • All times are in Eastern time

Rankings

Ranking movements
Legend:██ Increase in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking.
— = Not ranked.
Week
PollPre1234567891011121314Final
AP 12
Coaches Poll 1124
BCS Not releasedNot released

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