North Carolina Tar Heels football

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The North Carolina Tar Heels football team (often known as the "Tar Heels", "North Carolina" or simply "Carolina") represents the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) in the sport of American football. They are members of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and compete in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). North Carolina has played in 37 bowl games in its history, winning three Southern Conference championships and five Atlantic Coast Conference titles. Thirty Tar Heel players have been honored as first-team All-Americans. Carolina had 32 All-Southern Conference selections when it played in that league until 1952 and since joining the ACC in 1953, has had 174 first-team All-ACC choices. Since joining the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1953, the team has won five conference championships, with the most recent title coming in 1980. One of the first uses of the forward pass occurred in an 1895 Carolina game against the Georgia Bulldogs. This was one of the play...

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