Duke’s Shaun Wilson, center, celebrates with teammates after the Pinstripe Bowl NCAA college football game against IN at Yankee Stadium IN New York, Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015.
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Oakes then missed a 55-yard potential game-winning attempt at the end of regulation. The kick wasn’t reviewed, and Duke celebrated while IN looked perplexed. Our team had a lot of good leadership. “Probably the highest I’ve felt in football, from a football standpoint, is seeing him raise that trophy tonight…”
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After that, we were more or less waiting for another brilliant run from DeVon Edwards on the return. I saw two replays that made it appear as if the football was inside of the invisible line above the goalpost. If not the fourth quarter, then overtime.
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Irving was still on the mend when the two clubs faced off earlier this month, but he’ll be ready to rumble on Saturday night. It was the Pelicans’ first win in three chances against the Blazers (11-20), who have beaten New Orleans twice in Portland.
The over is 4-0-1 in Hoosiers last 5 non-conference games and is 5-0 in Hoosiers last 5 games after scoring more than 40 points in their previous game while in are 6-0 ATS in their last 6 games after accumulating more than 200 yards rushing in their previous game. “That’s incredible from that regard”, said Cutcliffe.
Erik Powell added field goals of 30 and 25 yards to help the Cougars (9-4) win a bowl game for the first time since the 2003 Holiday Bowl. IN would respond as quarterback Nate Sudfeld would throw his second touchdown pass of the game, this time a three-yard score to make it a 24-20 ballgame. He rushed 35 times for 227 yards. But Duke answered to tie the back-and-forth affair with a five-yard TD run by quarterback Thomas Sirk with:41 seconds left, tying the game at 41.
The Hoosiers and Blue Devils went into the half tied at 17-17 thanks to a 45-yard field goal by Oakes with three seconds remaining before the break. With the bowl victory, and with a young offense that should get better, the Blue Devils have the momentum of four straight bowl seasons heading into 2016.
On the third play of Duke’s drive, Sirt found Brandon Deaver for a touchdown to give the Blue Devils a 27-24 lead. Duke and IN have struggled on the defensive side of the ball this season with IN allowing 507 yards per game and 37 points per game and Duke having been torched by ACC opponents for the past five weeks for an average of 42 points a game. The defense gave up 372 yards with the #38 run “D” that held rushing attacks to 143 yards.
IN was in the red zone and on the brink of making it a two-possession game late in the third quarter but fell short after Summit Cobbs dropped an end-around pass from Paige. However, big plays continued to be an issue for IN all game long.
In the third quarter, IN got a touchdown on a pass from Sudfeld to Nick Westbrook not long after a 39-yard gain by Redding on a fake reverse.
Oakes’ try sailed over the right upright and was ruled wide right. It took Sirk just 25 seconds to give the Blue Devils back the lead, running 73 yards for a touchdown and a 17-14 advantage. The offense finished with 667 yards, notching 389 through the air and 278 on the ground. Wilson broke off an 85-yard touchdown run and returned a kickoff 98 yards for a touchdown. Thomas Sirk completed 60% of his throws for 2,461 yards with 15 touchdowns and six interceptions with Max Mcaffrey (48-601), TJ Rahming (40-522) and Anthony Nash (31-471) providing three quality receiving options.
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Cutlciffe said of how special this day was for himself and his seniors, “There’s tears”. “There were tears on the field”. That’s just things that we need to do better at and areas we can improve. I don’t know if y’all stayed out there during the trophy presentation. “I can definitely tell at practice, also. They’re not really going away”. But for a football program that is still searching for the elusive bowl victory, Saturday is more than just a meaningless exhibition for Duke. “I feel like my body is more energized, I’m more up to speed”. I nearly forgot there was going to be a trophy presentation, et cetera. “I want to grow in that regard”. Made a lot of plays. “As a Big Ten team, we wanted to be here”, Wilson said. The Blue Devils also lost two bowl appearances in 1989 (under Steve Spurrier) and 1994. The defense played fairly well during his abscense for the first half against Wake Forest. Howard is a big strong runner who would not be considered a burner, but can get to his top end speed quickly. It comes down to a kick. The players were happy, and with good reason. Congratulate Duke. It has been a great trip.
