9/23/2017 5:00:00 AM | Football
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| Duke (3-0, 0-0 ACC) vs UNC (1-2, 0-0 ACC) |
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| When: Sept. 23 | 3:30 PM (EST) | ||||||||||||
| Where: Kenan Memorial Stadium | ||||||||||||
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Duke (3-0, 0-0 ACC) vs North Carolina (1-2, 0-0 ACC)
September 23, 2017 • 3:30 pm • ESPNU
Chapel Hill, N.C. • Kenan Memorial Stadium (62,980 • Bermuda Grass)
• Now in its 105th season of football, Duke opens ACC play on the road against North Carolina on September 23 at 3:30 p.m. ... The game will be broadcast live by ESPNU with Clay Matvick (play-by-play), Kirk Morrison (analyst) & Desmond Purnell (sideline)
• The Blue Devils are 3-0 following last week's 34-20 victory over Baylor ... The Tar Heels are 1-2 after defeating Old Dominion, 53-23
• Duke owns an all-time record of 499-511-31 in 104-plus seasons
• Saturday's game will mark the 104th on the gridiron between the two schools, with North Carolina holding a 60-39-4 series advantage ... The series began in 1888 with a 16-0 Duke win ... The Blue Devils won last year's meeting, 28-27, in Durham ... Duke's last win in Chapel Hill came in the form of a 27-25 decision in 2013
• This will mark the earliest meeting between the Blue Devils and Tar Heels in series history ... The previous earliest affair was October 10, 1925
• The battle for the Victory Bell began in 1948 with North Carolina earning possession with a 20-0 win ... Head cheerleaders from Duke (Loring Jones) and North Carolina (Norman Spear) decided on the idea, with Jones designing the model and Spear obtaining a bell from an old railroad train ... Red Lewis, Duke's business manager, agreed to find money in the budget to pay for the bell
• Now in his 10th season as Duke's head coach, David Cutcliffe is 55-61 with the Blue Devils and 99-90 overall ... Cutcliffe earned ACC Coach of the Year honors in both 2012 & 2013
• Dating back to the 2013 season, the Blue Devils are 31-16 (.660) in their last 47 regular season games
• On November 10, 2016, QB Daniel Jones threw for 240 yards and one TD while rushing for two additional scores as Duke defeated No. 15 North Carolina, 28-27 ... LB Joe Giles-Harris carded 16 tackles as the Blue Devils held the Tar Heels to just six points and 142 total yards after halftime
• With scoring dashes of 50 and 65 yards last week versus Baylor, RB Shaun Wilson pushed his career total of 50+ yard TD runs to six to establish the Duke all-time record ... The previous school standard of four was held by George Clark (1944-47) and Jay Wilkinson (1961-63)
• Under head coach David Cutcliffe, the Blue Devils are 32-5 when allowing 20 points or less
• In the ACC, RBs Shaun Wilson (97.7) and Brittain Brown (78.3) rank fifth and sixth, respectively, in rushing yards per game ... Additionally, Brown is tops among rookies
• Duke leads the ACC and ranks second nationally in third down conversion defense (.118)
• In Week Two against Northwestern, QB Daniel Jones joined former QB Brandon Connette as the only two players in Duke history to record 300+ passing yards and 100+ rushing yards in a single game
Connette vs. Pitt (2013): 323 & 101
Jones vs. Northwestern (2017): 305 & 108
3 — Career interception returns for TDs for CB Bryon Fields Jr. ... The scores came against Tulane (2014), Pittsburgh (2016) and N.C. Central (2017) as Fields joins Wyatt Smith (1988-91) and John Talley (2003-06) as the only three players in Duke history with three INT returns for TDs
5 — Total passes defended (1 INT & 4 PBUs) by S Jeremy McDuffie against Baylor ... Of the four PBUs, three came on third down snaps
4 — Seasons with 3+ rushing TDs for RB Shaun Wilson, matching the school record previously set by Tom Davis (1941-42-43-44), George Clark (1944-45-46-47) and Jela Duncan (2012-13-15-16)
50-4 — Duke's record under David Cutcliffe when leading or tied after three quarters of action
14.35 — Recorded time for S Jeremy McDuffie in the 110-meter hurdles to earn all-league honors at the 2017 ACC Track & Field Championship meet ... McDuffie also garnered All-ACC accolades in the triple jump
4 — Career rushing TDs of 50+ yards for RB Shaun Wilson to rank tied for first in school history along with George Clark (1944-47) & Jay Wilkinson (1961-63)
12 — Fourth quarter & OT wins for the Blue Devils over the past five seasons (games in which Duke was tied or trailing in the fourth period)
14 — Nation's-best AFCA Academic Achievement Awards earned by Duke
10 — True freshmen to play for the Blue Devils this season, marking the highest total in the David Cutcliffe Era (9 in 2009)
20 & 10 — Daniel Jones is one of three QBs in Duke history to post 20+ passing TDs and 10+ rushing TDs in a career, joining Leo Hart (23 & 13; 1968-70) and Anthony Boone (38 & 16; 2011-14) ... In 15 career games, Jones has 20 passing TDs and 10 rushing TDs
120 — Rushing yards on 10 attempts for rookie RB Brittain Brown in the season-opener against N.C. Central to become the first Blue Devil since Desmond Scott in 2009 to record 100+ ground yards in a collegiate debut
3,636 — Career all-purpose yards for RB Shaun Wilson, who sits 364 yards shy of becoming the eighth player in Duke history to reach the 4,000-yard plateau
5-6 — Duke's all-time record in OT games
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