EL PASO --- North Carolina closes out the 2016 season on Friday, December 30, in the 2016 Hyundai Sun Bowl vs. Stanford of the Pac-12 Conference. The game will kick off in El Paso, Texas, at 2 p.m. ET (noon local time), and will be televised nationally by CBS.
The Sun Bowl is Carolina’s 33rd all-time bowl game, and the first in Texas since the 1994 Sun Bowl. UNC head coach Larry Fedora is making his eighth bowl game appearance as a head coach and fourth at UNC. Fedora was an assistant coach at Baylor in 1992 when the Bears beat Arizona in the 1992 Sun Bowl.