The 1971 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the North Carolina Tar Heels of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season.
[1] The Tar Heels were led by fifth-year head coach Bill Dooley and played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium.
North Carolina won the Atlantic Coast Conference with a perfect conference record of 6–0.
They were invited to the 1971 Gator Bowl, where they lost to Georgia.
This college football 1970s season article is a stub.