2022 SDCCU Holiday Bowl
North Carolina (9-4) vs. No. 15 Oregon (9-3)
San Diego, Calif. • Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022 • 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT
Petco Park (50,000) • Fox
Carolina Football Media Center
Series vs. Oregon: First Meeting
NORTH CAROLINA
Record: 9-4
Head Coach: Mack Brown (Florida State, ’74)
Overall Record: 274-143-1, 34th year
Record at UNC: 99-67-1, 14th year
OREGON
Record: 9-3
Head Coach: Dan Lanning (William Jewel, ’07)
Overall Record: 9-3, First year
Record at Oregon: same
BROADCAST INFO
Kickoff: 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT
FOX: Gus Johnson, play-by-play; Joel Klatt, analyst; Jenny Taft sideline
Tar Heel Sports Network: Jones Angell, play-by-play; Brian Simmons, analyst; Lee Pace, sideline
Satellite Radio: SiriusXM (136 or 193), App (955)
Website: A live radio broadcast of the Tar Heel Sports Network is available on UNC’s official athletic website, GoHeels.com, as well as through the Varsity Network app.
HEELS BOWLING FOR FOURTH STRAIGHT YEAR
• North Carolina has now qualified for a bowl for the fourth straight year and the 37th time overall. The Tar Heels are 15-21 in bowl games.
• Carolina has played in 10 straight bowl games with Mack Brown as its head coach.
• This will be the first time UNC plays a bowl game in California.
• This year marks the second time an ACC team will play in the SDCCU Holiday Bowl. The bowl game will match teams from the ACC and Pac-12 through at least 2025. The last time a current ACC school played in San Diego was in 1992 when the Miami Hurricanes (then in the Big East) defeated San Diego State, 63-17.
• This will be the first football game ever played in downtown San Diego’s Petco Park.
• With a victory in the Holiday Bowl, Carolina would claim its ninth 10-win season, with Brown-led teams accounting for four of them.
ACC COASTAL DIVISION CHAMPIONS
• North Carolina is the final winner of the ACC Coastal Division with the ACC removing divisions heading into next season. The Tar Heels finished 6-2 in conference play and 9-4 overall.
• Carolina has won nine games for just the second time since Mack Brown‘s first stint in Chapel Hill with 2015 being the other. It is UNC’s sixth nine-win season since 1982 with Brown-led teams accounting for five of them.
• UNC finished the season 6-0 on the road for the first time in school history. UNC and TCU are the only schools in the country with six road wins. The six consecutive road wins is tied for the second-longest active streak in the nation.
BROWN AND HOLIDAY BOWL/OREGON
• North Carolina head coach Mack Brown is 3-2 in five Holiday Bowl appearances. He secured wins in 2011, ’07 and ’01.
• Brown has posted an 0-2 record versus Oregon. Texas fell 30-7 in the 2013 Alamo Bowl, which would be Brown’s final game with the Longhorns.
• Texas met Oregon in the 2000 Holiday Bowl as well.
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