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Just two weeks after a heartbreaking loss to Cincinnati in the Belk Bowl, Duke got a jump on its preparations for the 2013 campaign when four members of its incoming recruiting class enrolled a semester early.
There are two types of sports movies—ones that end with a team achieving the ultimate triumph and ones that end with a team pushing itself to the limit, only to come up short by the slimmest of margins.
CHARLOTTE, N.C.—The rules of college football are plain and simple. Under no circumstances are Division I athletes allowed to accept gifts—unless they are playing in a bowl game, that is.
CHARLOTTE, N.C.—Extending the football season by a month, the Blue Devils’ first trip to a bowl game in 18 years originally meant that most Duke football players would have to spend the majority of their winter break on campus for bowl preparation.
Before every football game this year, The Chronicle sat down with a football writer from the opposing school’s student newspaper to get the scoop on their team and season.
Thanks to the success of his team and its first bowl bid since the 1994 season, Duke head coach David Cutcliffe was expected to be one of the most highly sought-after coaching commodities in college football this offseason. The ACC’s Coach of the Year quickly put all of the rumors to rest, signing a contract extension Nov. 21 through 2019.
Eighteen has been the magic number for Duke football this year. All season long, the Blue Devils sought to bury their recent past by breaking a number of streaks that span back to 1994.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.—When you play for the winningest coach in college basketball history, sometimes good just is not good enough.
Senior Day is normally a bittersweet celebration for Duke football players, taking the field at Wallace Wade Stadium for the final time accompanied by their family, friends and teammates. But Tyree Watkins’ Senior Day Nov. 24 was more bitter than sweet, because instead of taking the field to a standing ovation with his teammates, he watched the Blue Devils’ season-ending loss to Miami from his couch in Camden, N.J.
Week after week, each football game Duke has played this season has seemingly been billed as the most important Duke football game in upwards of 20 years. With the Blue Devils headed back to postseason play in the Belk Bowl on Dec. 27, don’t expect that to stop anytime soon.
Conner Vernon will be the first to tell you that he is not verbose. But nearly every time the wide receiver speaks to reporters, he tucks an important point into his terse answers.
Six weeks after earning bowl eligibility for the first time since 1994 with a last-second victory against North Carolina, Duke finally has a date on its postseason calendar.
Every Saturday during his redshirt senior season, Brian Moore was entrusted with possibly the least glamorous responsibility on the gridiron—snapping the football.
Duke’s senior class has burst out of the tunnel at Wallace Wade for the last time.
The Blue Devils did not walk away with a win against Miami, but two players came away with ACC Player of the Week honors following a 52-45 loss to the Hurricanes in Duke’s regular-season finale. Redshirt senior quarterback Sean Renfree was named the conference’s Offensive Back of the Week and sophomore wide receiver Jamison Crowder was named ACC Receiver of the Week.
Miami’s gameplan is a simple one—score early, score often and don’t stop scoring until the final whistle.
Last week Duke’s matchup with Miami had the potential to decide the ACC Coastal Division title. But now, both the Blue Devils and Hurricanes are out of that race for entirely different reasons.
ATLANTA—Conner Vernon continued to rewrite the ACC’s record books Saturday when he became the conference’s all-time leader in receiving yards.
Duke head coach David Cutcliffe is not beating around the bush—he is here to stay.
ATLANTA—As all 292 pounds of Georgia Tech’s Ray Beno rumbled and stumbled toward the first-down marker after recording his first career reception, it was as though the air was sucked out of Bobby Dodd Stadium. This was not due to the tackle’s huge gasps for air after he picked up the first down, but rather the deflating feeling that struck the Blue Devils’ sideline after squandering their best opportunity to make a crucial defensive stop.
