Duke Basketball Report · Oct 11, 2018
The Duke-Georgia Tech Rivalry Is Better Than You Think Part II
Duke and Georgia Tech maintained a rough parity during the 1980s, although these games rarely generated national attention. Both teams were unranked nationally every meeting between 1967 and 1989.
Doesn’t mean there wasn’t some good football played between the rivals.
Duke won seven of eight between 1976 and 1983. Duke even won in 1980, 17-12, one of Duke’s two wins that season. The other was at Clemson.
Georgia Tech was 1-9-1 in 1980. Bowl scouts did not crowd Wallace Wade that November afternoon.
Still, Red Wilson went 3-1 against a depleted Tech program.
Steve Sloan took over for Wilson for the 1983 season. A former Alabama quarterback, Sloan coached Duke like it had Alabama-level talent.