Tar Heels to meet Stanford in Sun Bowl
North Carolina’s football team will close out its 2016 season in the Sun Bowl on Friday in El Paso.
The Tar Heels (8-4) face Stanford (9-3) at 2 p.m. EST in an ACC/PAC-12 battle. North Carolina is coming off a regular season in which it finished in a tie for second in the ACC Coastal Division; Stanford was the third-place team – behind Washington and Washington State – in the PAC-12 North Division.
North Carolina is in a bowl game for the fourth straight season and the eighth time in the last nine years. The Tar Heels’ last victory in a bowl game was a 39-17 win over Cincinnati in the 2013 Belk Bowl.