Date | Time | Opponent | Rank | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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September 19 | 2:00 p.m.[1] | No. 18 Clemson | No. 12 | | L 18–20 | 43,000[2] | [3] |
September 26 | 2:30 p.m.[4] | at Notre Dame* | | | L 8–28 | 56,746[5] | [6] |
October 3 | 2:00 p.m.[7] | NC State | | - Kenan Memorial Stadium
- Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)
| W 20–12 | 38,000 | [8] |
October 10 | 2:00 p.m.[9] | No. 11 South Carolina | | - Kenan Memorial Stadium
- Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)
| W 19–6 | 29,000[10] | [11] |
October 17 | 1:30 p.m.[12] | at Maryland | | | L 7–14 | 22,000 | [13] |
October 24 | 2:00 p.m.[14] | at Wake Forest | | | W 21–19 | 19,000[15] | [16] |
October 31 | 2:00 p.m.[17] | No. 20 Tennessee* | | - Kenan Memorial Stadium
- Chapel Hill, NC
| L 7–29 | 30,000[18] | [19] |
| 8:15 p.m.[20] | at Miami (FL)* | | | L 7–14 | 31,136[21] | [22] |
November 14 | 2:00 p.m.[23] | Virginia | | | W 41–0 | 21,000 | [24] |
| 1:45 p.m.[25] | at Duke | | | W 50–0 | 33,000 | [26] |
- *Non-conference game
- Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
- All times are in Eastern time
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