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Re: Duke Football 2023

Posted: August 2nd, 2023, 4:46 am
by Bob Green
I see us winning seven or eight games this season.

Re: Duke Football 2023

Posted: August 2nd, 2023, 12:54 pm
by 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/

Re: Duke Football 2023

Posted: August 11th, 2023, 4:26 pm
by 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.

Re: Duke Football 2023

Posted: August 11th, 2023, 9:57 pm
by OPK
Bob Green wrote:
August 11th, 2023, 4:26 pm
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.

Re: Duke Football 2023

Posted: August 11th, 2023, 10:16 pm
by devildeac
Bob Green wrote:
August 11th, 2023, 4:26 pm
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.

:poo: :poo: :poo:

Re: Duke Football 2023

Posted: August 12th, 2023, 9:42 am
by CameronBornAndBred
Bob Green wrote:
August 11th, 2023, 4:26 pm
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.
:wizard: :wizard:

Re: Duke Football 2023

Posted: August 14th, 2023, 1:40 pm
by 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

Re: Duke Football 2023

Posted: August 14th, 2023, 5:41 pm
by Bob Green
CameronBornAndBred wrote:
August 14th, 2023, 1:40 pm

FSU and Clemson start off at 8 and 9. (Looking forward to FSU dropping)
I’d much rather see Clemson drop! At least initially…

🍻

Re: Duke Football 2023

Posted: August 14th, 2023, 6:21 pm
by CameronBornAndBred
Bob Green wrote:
August 14th, 2023, 5:41 pm
CameronBornAndBred wrote:
August 14th, 2023, 1:40 pm

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.

Re: Duke Football 2023

Posted: August 14th, 2023, 8:48 pm
by devildeac
Bob Green wrote:
August 14th, 2023, 5:41 pm
CameronBornAndBred wrote:
August 14th, 2023, 1:40 pm

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!!

Re: Duke Football 2023

Posted: August 15th, 2023, 5:02 pm
by 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

Re: Duke Football 2023

Posted: August 19th, 2023, 4:58 pm
by 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

Re: Duke Football 2023

Posted: August 19th, 2023, 6:08 pm
by Bob Green
Thanks for the link, Chris. That was a good article.

Re: Duke Football 2023

Posted: August 20th, 2023, 5:28 pm
by 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/

Re: Duke Football 2023

Posted: August 24th, 2023, 9:17 pm
by 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.

Re: Duke Football 2023

Posted: August 26th, 2023, 7:29 am
by 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

Re: Duke Football 2023

Posted: August 26th, 2023, 9:35 am
by CameronBornAndBred
Bob Green wrote:
August 26th, 2023, 7:29 am
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

Re: Duke Football 2023

Posted: August 26th, 2023, 9:44 am
by 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

Re: Duke Football 2023

Posted: August 26th, 2023, 12:22 pm
by 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.

Re: Duke Football 2023

Posted: August 26th, 2023, 5:03 pm
by OZZIE4DUKE
CameronBornAndBred wrote:
August 26th, 2023, 9:44 am
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. :9f: