1989 North Carolina Tar Heels football team

1989 Atlantic Coast Conference football standings
	+ – Conference co-champions; Rankings from AP Poll

1989 North Carolina Tar Heels football
1989 North Carolina Tar Heels football
Conference	Atlantic Coast Conference
1989 record	1–10 (0–7 ACC)
Head coach	Mack Brown (2nd season);
Defensive coordinator	Carl Torbush (2nd season)
Captain	Clarence Carter, Pat Crowley, Torin Dorn, Cecil Gray, Jonathan Hall
Home stadium	Kenan Memorial Stadium; (capacity: 52,000)
	Seasons ← 1988 1990 →

The 1989 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1989 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Tar Heels played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and competed in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The team was led by head coach Mack Brown.

Schedule[]

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	TV	Result	Attendance	Source
September 9		VMI*	Kenan Memorial Stadium Chapel Hill, NC		W 49–7	50,400	^[1]
September 16		at Kentucky*	Commonwealth Stadium Lexington, KY		L 6–13	50,174
September 23		at No. 18 NC State	Carter–Finley Stadium Raleigh, NC (rivalry)		L 6–40
September 30		Navy*	Kenan Memorial Stadium Chapel Hill, NC		L 7–12
October 7		Wake Forest	Kenan Memorial Stadium Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)		L 16–17	47,500
October 14		at Virginia	Scott Stadium Charlottesville, VA (South's Oldest Rivalry)		L 17–50	34,600
October 21		at Georgia Tech	Bobby Dodd Stadium Atlanta, GA		L 14–17	41,114
October 28		at Maryland	Byrd Stadium College Park, MD		L 0–38	27,441
November 4	12:00 p.m.	No. 21 Clemson	Kenan Memorial Stadium Chapel Hill, NC	JPS	L 3–35	44,500
November 11	2:00 p.m.	South Carolina*	Kenan Memorial Stadium Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)		L 20–27	44,200
November 18		No. 25 Duke	Kenan Memorial Stadium Chapel Hill, NC (Victory Bell)		L 0–41	46,000
*Non-conference game Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time

^ "Tar Heels crack VMI, 49–7". The Herald-Sun. September 10, 1989. Retrieved February 4, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "1989 North Carolina Tar Heels Schedule and Results". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 4, 2017.

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

1989 Atlantic Coast Conference football standings
v t	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 18 Virginia +	6	–	1	–	0	10	–	3	–	0
Duke +	6	–	1	–	0	8	–	4	–	0
No. 12 Clemson	5	–	2	–	0	10	–	2	–	0
Georgia Tech	4	–	3	–	0	7	–	4	–	0
NC State	4	–	3	–	0	7	–	5	–	0
Maryland	2	–	5	–	0	3	–	7	–	1
Wake Forest	1	–	6	–	0	2	–	8	–	1
North Carolina	0	–	7	–	0	1	–	10	–	0

+ – Conference co-champions Rankings from AP Poll