Regular season ·
NC State beat North Carolina
North Carolina4-819
NC State7-542Final
Records are after this game.
NC State beat North Carolina by 23 points.
How the game turned
Q1 10:10 NC State 7, North Carolina 0
NC State 88% to win
Bailey 15-yd TD pass to Grimes, NC State goes ahead 7-0
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Big moments
NC State was never below a 77 percent chance to win. Win chance is our own calculation from the play-by-play, with each game's start set from the pregame expectation.
How the lead changed
NC State led after every score.
What happened next
NC State's next game: W 31-7 vs Memphis in the Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl, Dec 19
20 days laterNorth Carolina finished the 2025 season 4-8.
North Carolina's first game of the 2026 season: W 15-10 vs TCU, Aug 29, 2026
about 9 months later
Related pages
Scores, dates and the stage: ESPN. Win chance: our curve from play-by-play; the turn is its largest one-play change that moved with the score.

