While other ACC foes are being lauded after 2015’s success, Carolina still is trying to gain the respect that it rightfully deserve.
Carolina’s football program has been long viewed as a sleeping giant. Once in a blue moon that giant would awake for a strong season. Under the late Bill Dooley, Carolina won back-to-back ACC titles in 1971 and ’72. The Tar Heels came a game short of 10 wins in their 1971 campaign only to finish with a top 12 AP ranking and 11-1 record the following season. The programs winningest coach, Dick Crum, with the help of Lawrence Taylor, won the Tar Heels’ last ACC title in 1980.