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Duke-Alabama: More than a game

(08/26/19 4:00am)

Duke Football takes the field in Atlanta on Saturday in its first season-opening game with Alabama since 1972.   In this one, like the '72 game, Duke will play before a full house (in the Mercedes Benz Stadium) against an Alabama team ranked No. 2 nationally preseason polls. For all of that, the game stands for so much more in the lore of college football and in the Duke program's return to the national stage under Coach David Cutcliffe.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2019/08/duke-university-sports-football-duke-alabama-more-than-a-game

Duke-Alabama football: the real story

(09/17/10 10:57am)

Let’s put this game in proper context. In all the considerable, though somewhat ancient, lore of Duke football history, there has never been a bigger game in Wallace Wade Stadium. Yes, Roger Staubach and his Midshipmen played here in Staubach’s ‘63 Heisman Trophy year. And a Tony Dorsett-led Pittsburgh team played here in ‘76. But Alabama’s visit is of historic proportions for lots of reasons beyond the Tide’s current No. 1, national ranking.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2010/09/duke-alabama-football-real-story