North Carolina football has been ranked in the top 10 of the Associated Press poll for at least one week in 15 different seasons, with the most recent the opening week of the 2021 campaign.
The Tar Heels lost to Virginia Tech and haven’t been in the top 10 since. Overall, they have been ranked in the top 10 a total of 79 times. The AP began ranking teams in 1936, and a UNC team has appeared in at least one poll in 43 different seasons a total of 268 times.
So, with all that said, let’s have some fun here and rank UNC’s teams that finished ranked in the top 10: