Duke Football 2023 (8-5, 4-4 ACC) Birmingham Bowl Champions

[Bob Green]

I see us winning seven or eight games this season.

[CameronBornAndBred]

Duke lands three players on the preseason All-ACC team.
Jalon Calhoun and Graham Barton on offense, DeWayne Carter on defense.

Riley Leonard tied for 5th for POY votes, including one 1st place. (Drake Maye ran away with the voting overall)

https://www.wralsportsfan.com/unc-s-may ... /20982450/

[Bob Green]

Eli Pancol out for the season after surgery for a lower body injury. This sucks! Pancol is one of my favorite players. A big, tough receiver willing to go up for the ball in traffic.

Edit: Tweet doesn’t say out for season. It says he will miss significant time.

[OPK]

Eli Pancol out for the season after surgery for a lower body injury. This sucks! Pancol is one of my favorite players. A big, tough receiver willing to go up for the ball in traffic.

Edit: Tweet doesn’t say out for season. It says he will miss significant time.

Ugh. Hate to hear this, hoping for a quick and full recovery.

[devildeac]

Eli Pancol out for the season after surgery for a lower body injury. This sucks! Pancol is one of my favorite players. A big, tough receiver willing to go up for the ball in traffic.

Edit: Tweet doesn’t say out for season. It says he will miss significant time.

[CameronBornAndBred]

Eli Pancol out for the season after surgery for a lower body injury. This sucks! Pancol is one of my favorite players. A big, tough receiver willing to go up for the ball in traffic.

Edit: Tweet doesn’t say out for season. It says he will miss significant time.

The ever mysterious "lower body injury". If it's a broken bone, maybe he'll be back, but if it's an ACL (which unfortunately is more likely) we won't be seeing him in '23.

[CameronBornAndBred]

The first polls are out, and Duke has 4 votes in the AP preseason poll, and 2 in the Coaches.

FSU and Clemson start off at 8 and 9. (Looking forward to FSU dropping)

ND is 13 and the cheaters are 21.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/rankings

[Bob Green]

FSU and Clemson start off at 8 and 9. (Looking forward to FSU dropping)

I’d much rather see Clemson drop! At least initially…

[CameronBornAndBred]

FSU and Clemson start off at 8 and 9. (Looking forward to FSU dropping)

I’d much rather see Clemson drop! At least initially…

Very true.

[devildeac]

FSU and Clemson start off at 8 and 9. (Looking forward to FSU dropping)

I’d much rather see Clemson drop! At least initially…

Damn right!!

[Bob Green]

ESPN ranked Top 100 college football players for 2023.

90. Graham Barton OT
92. Riley Leonard QB

https://www.espn.com/college-football/s ... owers-2023

[CameronBornAndBred]

Here's a good outsider's perspective of Duke. Written by InsideNU's David Gold, he looks ahead to Northwestern's week three opponent...US!

Duke is on a two game win streak vs the Wildcats.
It's a writeup well worth the read.

https://www.insidenu.com/2023/8/17/2383 ... lue-devils

[Bob Green]

Thanks for the link, Chris. That was a good article.

[CameronBornAndBred]

With about two weeks until the Blue Devils start their season against Clemson on Labor Day, one thing is very clear: Duke isn't satisfied with nine wins.

"We don't look at anything as being even close to finished," head coach Mike Elko said during the team's media day on Saturday.

"We still feel like people are doubting us," offensive lineman Jacob Monk said. "No one is giving us a shot to win the ACC and that's one of our goals. So we're gonna go out each and every week and play the hardest that we can to achieve our goal."

https://www.wralsportsfan.com/duke-foot ... /21008914/

[CameronBornAndBred]

Our tailgate neighbor Darrell Spells posted that the 1989 ACC Championship will be on the field at halftime for the Clemson game, and will be joined by Coach Spurrier.

That's pretty cool.

[Bob Green]

https://www.triond.net/2023/08/official ... er_24.html

These preseason rankings predict an 8-4 regular season for Duke.

114. UConn
82. Northwestern
72. Virginia
52. Wake Forest
51. Louisville
47. Pitt
38. UNC
34. Duke
24. NC State
17. Clemson
13. Notre Dame
7. Florida State

[CameronBornAndBred]

https://www.triond.net/2023/08/official ... er_24.html

These preseason rankings predict an 8-4 regular season for Duke.
38. UNC
34. Duke

I'm on board with any poll that has us ahead of the cheaters. I like what that page does with the helmets. Here is their history of Duke's.

https://www.triond.net/2023/08/duke-blu ... story.html

[CameronBornAndBred]

For the preseason fun of it, this is where Duke stands in ESPN's bowl projections.

Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl
Raymond James Stadium (Tampa, Florida)
6:30 p.m., ESPN and the ESPN App
Bonagura: Duke vs. Missouri

Wasabi Fenway Bowl
Fenway Park (Boston)
11 a.m., ESPN and the ESPN App
Schlabach: Duke vs. SMU

https://www.espn.com/college-football/i ... rojections

[CameronBornAndBred]

The ACC network has a series called ACC Football Road Trip. They have one episode for each team airing today; Duke takes the stage at 7 eastern.

[OZZIE4DUKE]

For the preseason fun of it, this is where Duke stands in ESPN's bowl projections.

Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl
Raymond James Stadium (Tampa, Florida)
6:30 p.m., ESPN and the ESPN App
Bonagura: Duke vs. Missouri

Wasabi Fenway Bowl
Fenway Park (Boston)
11 a.m., ESPN and the ESPN App
Schlabach: Duke vs. SMU

https://www.espn.com/college-football/i ... rojections

I vote for Tampa in December, not Boston.