Duke (1-1; 0-1 ACC) at Northwestern (0-2; 0-0 Big Ten)September 17, 2016 • 8 pm • Big Ten NetworkEvanston, Ill. • Ryan Field (47,130 • Natural Grass)• Duke takes to the road for the first time in 2016 by travelling to Evanston, Ill., to meet Northwestern ... Kickoff is set for 8 p.m. (ET) at Ryan Field ... The game will be televised live by the Big Ten Network with Joe Beninati (play-by-play), J Leman (analyst) & Michelle McMahon (sideline)
• The Blue Devils stand at 1-1 on the year after dropping a 24-14 decision to Wake Forest last week ... The Wildcats are 0-2 following a 9-7 loss to Illinois State last Saturday
• Northwestern leads the all-time series with Duke by a 9-8 margin ... A season ago, the Wildcats earned a 19-10 victory in Durham ... The series dates back to 1985 ... After Duke won seven of the first nine meetings, Northwestern has won seven of the last eight ... The last five affairs have been decided by an average of 8.4 points, with only Northwestern’s 28-10 triumph in 2003 reaching double digits in outcome
• The Blue Devils enter the Northwestern tilt having won 16 of their last 21 games against non-ACC opponents
• Duke owns an all-time record of 493-504-31 in 103+ seasons
• Dating back to the 2013 season, the Blue Devils are 25-9 in their last 34 regular season games
• Duke’s 27 wins over the past three seasons (2013-14-15) mark the program’s best three-year victory total in school history ... The previous standard of 25 wins was set in both 1936-38 & 2012-14
• Duke S
DeVon Edwards and Stanford RB Christian McCaffrey are the only two active players nationally who earned both All-America and Academic All-America honors in 2015
• Duke LB
Joe Giles-Harris, a redshirt freshman from Nyack, N.Y., has enjoyed the start to his playing career by leading the Blue Devils and ranking first among ACC rookies in total tackles with 21 through two games ... Last week against Wake Forest, he posted 15 tackles while securing the first two takeaways of his career with one fumble recovery and one interception
• Duke WR
Anthony Nash set career single-game highs for both pass receptions (8) and receiving yards (112) last Saturday versus Wake Forest ... Nash was one of three Blue Devils with 8+ catches against the Demon Deacons, joining fellow WRs T.J. Rahming (9-46) &
Johnathan Lloyd (8-67)
• Duke RB
Shaun Wilson is the only active player nationally with TDs of 80+ yards via rush, reception & return
• 85-yard rush vs. Indiana, 2015
• 89-yard reception vs. N.C. Central, 2015
• 98-yard KOR vs. Indiana, 2015
• Now in his ninth season as Duke’s head coach,
David Cutcliffe is 49-54 with the Blue Devils and 93-83 overall
• Elected by their teammates, four redshirt seniors will serve as team captains for the 2016 campaign: RB
Jela Duncan, S
DeVon Edwards, QB
Thomas Sirk and DT
A.J. WolfBlue Devils by the Numbers• 6 — Career kickoff returns for TDs for S
DeVon Edwards ... In 2015, Edwards set the school single-season record with three KORs for TDs on a 95-yard scoring effort at Tulane, a 100-yard dash against Georgia Tech and a 94-yard return at Virginia last season ... The six KORs for TDs are one shy of the ACC record of seven held by Clemson’s C.J. Spiller and NCAA standard of seven shared by Spiller and Houston’s Tyron Carrier
• 48 — Career non-offensive points scored by S
DeVon Edwards on eight TDs (6 KORs & 2 INTs)
• 11 — Career INTs for CB
Breon Borders, marking the highest total among active players in the ACC
• 11 — Fourth quarter & OT wins for the Blue Devils over the past four sea¬sons (games in which Duke was tied or trailing in the fourth period)
• 461 — Consecutive Duke football games broadcast by radio play-by-play announcer Bob Harris, who is in his 41st and final season on the call ... The streak started with Duke’s season-opening 21-18 victory over Tennessee on September 11, 1976
• 3 — Career 100-yard rushing games for RB
Jela Duncan, who gained 115 ground yards in the season-opening win against N.C. Central
• 14 — Nation-best AFCA Academic Achievement Awards earned by Duke, including the 2015 honor
• 3 — Career 100-yard receiving games for WR
Anthony Nash, who gained a career-high 112 yards through the air last week against Wake Forest
• 8 — True freshmen who played in Duke’s season-opening win over N.C. Central last Saturday
• 4 — Offensive plays of 50+ yards for the Blue Devils this season:
• 59-yard pass from Jones to Taylor
• 56-yard pass from Jones to Nash
• 55-yard pass from Jones to Lloyd (TD)
• 50-yard rush by
Jela Duncan (TD)
• 67 — Total offensive plays (19 rush + 48 pass) for QB
Daniel Jones against Wake Forest to mark the second highest single-game total in school history behind Steve Slayden’s 73 (11 rush + 62 pass) vs. N.C. State in 1987
• 3 — Teams (Clemson, Duke & North Carolina) to rank among the ACC’s top five in total offense, scoring offense, rushing offense and passing offense last season
• 5-6 — Duke’s all-time record in OT games ... The Blue Devils won twice in extra time last year against Virginia Tech (45-43 in 4 OT) and Indiana (44- 41 in OT)
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