1983 North Carolina Tar Heels football team

1983 Atlantic Coast Conference football standings
	$ – Conference champion; * – Clemson was under NCAA and ACC probation and was ineligible for the ACC title. As a result, their ACC games did not count in the league standings. ; Rankings from AP Poll

1983 North Carolina Tar Heels football
1983 North Carolina Tar Heels football
Peach Bowl, L 3–28 vs. Florida State
Conference	Atlantic Coast Conference
1983 record	8–4 (4–2 ACC)
Head coach	Dick Crum (6th season);
Captain	Brian Blados, William Fuller
Home stadium	Kenan Memorial Stadium; (capacity: 50,000)
	Seasons ← 1982 1984 →

The 1983 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Tar Heels were led by sixth-year head coach Dick Crum and played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. They competed as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, finishing in second.^[2]

Schedule[]

Date	Time	Opponent	Rank	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 3		at South Carolina*	No. 11	Williams–Brice Stadium Columbia, SC (rivalry)		W 24–8	72,400
September 10		Memphis State*	No. 8	Kenan Memorial Stadium Chapel Hill, NC		W 24–10
September 17		Miami (OH)*	No. 10	Kenan Memorial Stadium Chapel Hill, NC		W 48–17
September 24		William & Mary*	No. 5	Kenan Memorial Stadium Chapel Hill, NC		W 51–20
October 1		at Georgia Tech	No. 5	Grant Field Atlanta, GA		W 38–21	34,000
October 8		Wake Forest	No. 4	Kenan Memorial Stadium Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)		W 30–10	51,711
October 15		at NC State	No. 3	Carter–Finley Stadium Raleigh, NC (rivalry)		W 42–14
October 29		at No. 13 Maryland	No. 3	Byrd Stadium College Park, MD		L 26–28	51,200
November 5		Clemson*^A	No. 10	Kenan Memorial Stadium Chapel Hill, NC		L 3–16	53,689
November 12		at Virginia	No. 19	Scott Stadium Charlottesville, VA (South's Oldest Rivalry)		L 14–17	42,933
November 19		Duke		Kenan Memorial Stadium Chapel Hill, NC (Victory Bell)		W 34–27	49,500
December 30	3:00 p.m.	vs. Florida State*		Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium Atlanta, GA (Peach Bowl)	CBS	L 3–28	25,648
*Non-conference game Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time

A. ^ Clemson was under NCAA probation and was ineligible for the ACC title. As a result, this game did not count in the league standings.

v t North Carolina Tar Heels football
Venues	Emerson Field (1916–1926) Kenan Memorial Stadium (1927–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Duke: Victory Bell NC State South Carolina Virginia: South's Oldest Rivalry Wake Forest
Culture & lore	First forward pass Rameses The Marching Tar Heels 2010 football scandal 2011 academic-athletic scandal
People	Head coaches All-Americans NFL draftees Statistical leaders
Seasons	1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

1983 Atlantic Coast Conference football standings
v t	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
Maryland $	5	–	0	–	0	8	–	4	–	0
North Carolina	4	–	2	–	0	8	–	4	–	0
Georgia Tech	3	–	2	–	0	3	–	8	–	0
Virginia	3	–	3	–	0	6	–	5	–	0
Duke	3	–	3	–	0	3	–	8	–	0
Wake Forest	1	–	5	–	0	4	–	7	–	0
NC State	1	–	5	–	0	3	–	8	–	0
No. 11 Clemson *	0	–	0	–	0	9	–	1	–	1

$ – Conference champion * – Clemson was under NCAA and ACC probation and was ineligible for the ACC title. As a result, their ACC games did not count in the league standings.^[1] Rankings from AP Poll