Duke has a big football game this Saturday. A really big football game. A chance to validate all of the off-season work, a chance to silence the nay-sayers, a chance to propel its 2021 season into a successful one.
The last time Duke was above .500 was October 26, 2019. That night Duke made the short trip to Chapel Hill with a 4-3 record. An ill-conceived and poorly-executed trick-play on the goal line at the end of the game cost Duke a likely victory and sent the program into a downward spiral from which it has still not recovered.