2016 North Carolina Tar Heels football team


The 2016 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was led by fifth-year head coach Larry Fedora and played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium. The Tar Heels competed as a member of the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference. They finished the season 8–5, 5–3 in ACC play to finish in a three-way tie for second place in the Coastal Division. They were invited to the Sun Bowl where they lost to Stanford.

Recruiting

was on February 3, 2016 and was the first chance for high school seniors to officially declare which university or college they will be attending for their college career. North Carolina had 26 high school seniors sign a National Letter of Intent to play football with them. Of the class, 7 athletes enrolled early to UNC.
^These signees will not be enrolling at UNC in 2016 due to not being admitted into the school.

Schedule

Personnel

North Carolina head coach Larry Fedora enters his fifth year as the North Carolina's head coach for the 2016 season. At the end of the 2015 season, assistant head coach, Seth Littrell, was hired as the head coach at North Texas. As a result, co-offensive coordinator and offensive line coach, Chris Kapilovic, was promoted to offensive coordinator, and will retain his role as offensive line coach. Former Tar Heel player, Chad Scott, was hired to replace Littrell as the tight ends/hybrids coach.

Game summaries

vs. Georgia

Overall recordLast meetingResult
12–16–21971UGA, 7–3

at Illinois

Overall recordLast meetingResult
3–02015UNC, 48–14

James Madison

Overall recordLast meetingResult
2–02011UNC, 42–10

Pittsburgh

Overall recordLast meetingResult
7–32015UNC, 26–19

at Florida State

Overall recordLast meetingResult
2–15–12010UNC, 37–35

Virginia Tech

Overall recordLast meetingResult
11–20–62015UNC, 30–27 OT

at Miami (FL)

Overall recordLast meetingResult
8–92015UNC, 59–21

at Virginia

Overall recordLast meetingResult
62–54–42015UNC, 26–13

Georgia Tech

Overall recordLast meetingResult
19–28–32015UNC, 38–31

at Duke

Overall recordLast meetingResult
59–37–42015UNC, 66–31

The Citadel

Overall recordLast meetingResult
4–02009UNC, 40–6

NC State

Overall recordLast meetingResult
66–33–62015UNC, 45–34

Stanford–Sun Bowl

Overall recordLast meetingResult
1–11998STAN, 37–34

Rankings