Duke (6-5, 3-4 ACC) at Wake Forest (3-8, 1-6 ACC)
November 28, 2015 • 12:30 pm • ACC Network
Winston-Salem, N.C. • BB&T Field (31,500 • FieldTurf)
• Duke (6-5, 3-4 ACC) travels to Winston-Salem, N.C., to close out the regular season against Wake Forest (3-8, 1-6 ACC) on Saturday, November 21 ... Kickoff at BB&T Field is set for 12:30 p.m. ... The ACC Network will broadcast the game with Tim Brant (play-by-play), Dave Archer (analyst) & Roddy Jones (sideline)
• Saturday will mark the 96th meeting between the two schools, with Duke leading the series, 56-37-2 ... The series began in 1889 with a 32-0 Wake Forest win ... The Blue Devils have won three straight in the series after Wake Forest had posted 12 consecutive victories from 2000-11 ... Duke won last year's tilt, 41-21, in Durham.
• The Blue Devils have won 12 of their last 15 road games dating back to the start of the 2013 season ... Among ACC teams, Duke (12-3) has the top ledger in that time span, followed by Florida State (11-2), Clemson (10-4), Virginia Tech (10-5), Pittsburgh (10-6), North Carolina (7-7), N.C. State (7-8), Georgia Tech (7-9), Boston College (6-8), Miami (6-9), Syracuse (4-11), Wake Forest (3-15) & Virginia (0-14)
• Dating back to the 2013 season, the Blue Devils are 23-8 in their last 31 regular season games ... The only schools with more wins during that stretch are Ohio State (29), Florida State (29), Alabama (28), Baylor (28), Michigan State (28), Clemson (26), Wisconsin (25), Oregon (25) & Oklahoma (24)
• With a 10-point outing last week at Virginia, K Ross Martin became the third player in ACC history to reach 400 career points, joining Florida State's Dustin Hopkins (466) and Clemson's Chandler Catanzaro (404) ... Martin has 407 career points to his credit on 73 field goals and 188 PATs, and enters the week with 97 points on the year and just three shy of posting the third 100-point campaign of his career (106 in 2012 & 107 in 2014)
• WR T.J. Rahming enjoyed last week's trip to Charlottesville, Va., by establishing Duke freshman single-game records for pass receptions (12) and receiving yards (190) ... Nine of the 12 receptions covered 10+ yards with eight producing first downs and two covering 40+ yards
• Over their last 21 ACC regular season games, the Blue Devils are 14-7 ... Only Florida State (18-2), Clemson (17-3) and North Carolina (15-6) have better ledgers
• S DeVon Edwards was named ACC Specialist of the Week after returning a kickoff 94 yards for a TD at Virginia
• Five Blue Devils were honored with CoSIDA Academic All-District accolades, marking the highest total in the nation ... The Duke contingent also made up 45.5 percent (5-of-11) of the ACC's honorees ... S DeVon Edwards earned the honor for the second straight year and was joined on this year's team by OT Gabe Brandner, K Ross Martin, QB Thomas Sirk & DT A.J. Wolf
• Bob Harris, the Voice of the Blue Devils, is in his 40th season as the play-by-play announcer for the Blue Devil IMG Radio Network ... Harris enters this week's game in Charlottesville having called 457 consecutive Duke football games dating back to the 1976 season-opening 21-18 win at Tennessee
Blue Devils by the Numbers
• 6 — Career field goals of 50+ yards for K Ross Martin, tied for the most in Duke history with Sims Lenhardt ... For his career, Martin has made six-of-eight attempts from 50+ yards
• 1:28.53 — ACC-leading ratio of sacks allowed per passing attempt for the Blue Devils this season
• 6 — Career kickoff returns for TDs for S DeVon Edwards, including a 95- yard scoring effort at Tulane, a 100- yard dash against Georgia Tech and a 94-yard return at Virginia this season ... The six KORs for TDs are one shy of the ACC record of seven held by Clemson's C.J. Spiller
• 4 — QBs leading Power 5 schools in both rushing and passing yardage this season: Thomas Sirk of Duke, Lamar Jackson of Louisville, Dak Prescott of Mississippi State & Seth Collins of Oregon State
• 17.21 — Yards per pass reception average this year for WR Anthony Nash, a mark that ranks fifth in the ACC ... Nash, who entered the season with five catches for 47 yards in 16 games, has 24 receptions for 413 yards in 2015
• 18.0 — Season total of tackles for loss for S Jeremy Cash, a mark which ranks tied for second in the ACC and sixth nationally ... In addition, the 18.0 TFL are the most in a season by a Blue Devil since 2003, when Phillip Alexander posted 18.5 TFL
• 593 — Rushing yards this season for QB Thomas Sirk, marking a total that ranks second on Duke's single-season chart behind Mike Dunn's campaign of 757 (1976)
• .441 — Third-down conversion rate for the Duke offense this season — the third-best figure in the ACC
• 6 — Blue Devils with multiple rushing TDs this season: QB Parker Boehme (5), QB Thomas Sirk (5), RB Jela Duncan (4), RB Shaquille Powell (3), RB Zach Boden (2) & RB Shaun Wilson (2)
• 4 — Blue Devils with runs from scrimmage of 50+ yards this season: QB Parker Boehme, RB Jela Duncan, QB Thomas Sirk & RB Shaun Wilson
• 94 — Percent Graduation Success Rate released November 4 for Duke's football program — tops in the ACC followed by Wake Forest (90), Boston College (89), Clemson (84), Miami (83), Syracuse (80), Virginia Tech (80), Pittsburgh (75), Virginia (75), Florida State (73), Georgia Tech (72), N.C. State (70), Louisville (63) and North Carolina (62)
• +40 — Duke's point difference in the fourth quarter this season (99-59)
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