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Ranking the top 50 college football programs of all time

By Connor Muldowney

Nov 26, 2016; Columbus, OH, USA; Ohio State Buckeyes running back Curtis Samuel (4) celebrates after scoring the game winning touchdown against the Michigan Wolverines in the second overtime at Ohio Stadium. Ohio State won the game 30-27 in double overtime.Mandatory Credit: Greg Bartram-USA TODAY Sports
Nov 26, 2016; Columbus, OH, USA; Ohio State Buckeyes running back Curtis Samuel (4) celebrates after scoring the game winning touchdown against the Michigan Wolverines in the second overtime at Ohio Stadium. Ohio State won the game 30-27 in double overtime.Mandatory Credit: Greg Bartram-USA TODAY Sports /
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Nov 10, 2016; Durham, NC, USA; North Carolina Tar Heels wide receiver Austin Proehl (7) celebrates with North Carolina Tar Heels wide receiver Thomas Jackson (48) after scoring a touchdown in the first half of their game against the Duke Blue Devils at Wallace Wade Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark Dolejs-USA TODAY Sports
Nov 10, 2016; Durham, NC, USA; North Carolina Tar Heels wide receiver Austin Proehl (7) celebrates with North Carolina Tar Heels wide receiver Thomas Jackson (48) after scoring a touchdown in the first half of their game against the Duke Blue Devils at Wallace Wade Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark Dolejs-USA TODAY Sports /

North Carolina is a basketball school, they say. While this might be true, especially since the greatest to ever play the sport was a Tar Heel (Michael Jordan), the football program isn’t half-bad, either.

The Tar Heels are on a short list of schools that have reached the 650-win plateau in the history of their program. While they don’t have a national title just yet, the Tar Heels look to be serious contenders in the ACC nowadays under Larry Fedora. In fact, they nearly won the conference title game last season against Clemson.

Fedora is currently 40-24 in five seasons with the Tar Heels and he’s moving the program back in the right direction.

Before him, North Carolina hadn’t won a conference title since 1980. Although he has yet to do so, Fedora is improving the Tar Heels slowly but surely and it’s only a matter of time before they win one.

From 1971-80, the Tar Heels were arguably at their best, winning four ACC crowns and making seven bowl games, winning three. You have to remember that making a bowl game wasn’t nearly as easy in the 1970s and 1980s as it is today.

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The Tar Heels are 14-17 in bowl games all time and have nun conference titles and 14 consensus All-Americans. They may just have the No. 1 quarterback chosen in the upcoming NFL draft in Mitch Trubisky.

Notable alumni include Lawrence Taylor, Jeff Saturday, Giovani Bernard, Julius Peppers, Connor Barth and Robert Quinn.

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