It’s a group that won a division championship and set a school record with 10 wins in 2013, stands just one victory shy of becoming the winningest class in Duke history while earning distinction as the first Blue Devils ever to play in four straight bowls.
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Key player: Duke kicker Ross Martin drilled a 52-yard field goal into the wind on the Devils’ first drive. The lead grew to 34-27 when Oakes kicked a 27-yard field goal with 11:12 left, but Wilson returned the ensuing kickoff to tie it. The game was tied up at 41-41 with 41 seconds remaining.
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IN didn’t phone it in before the first half ended, as they would get into field goal range and Griffin Oakes would proceed to nail a 45-yard field goal, making it a 17-17 tie before the first half came to an end. But even the unseasonable weather aside, the locale of this bowl game makes it special for everyone involved. The Blue Devils improve to 8-5 with the win becoming the Pinstripe Bowl champions.
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“It was weird”, Sudfeld said in an interview. Plus, Indiana ranked 116th in the nation in points allowed per game, surrendering 37.1 points per contest this season. Three plays later, IN scored on a Redding rush to take a 14-10 lead. If you’re looking for Boxing Day excitement, this football game between basketball schools at a baseball stadium (Yankee Stadium) is must-watch.
The porous IN run defense managed not to break apart from a huge 85-yard touchdown run from Shaun Wilson keeping the deficit at just 10-0 midway through the second. The Hoosiers fall to 6-7 to finish the season below. “I mean it’s awesome, I can not tell you the emotions that – just watching our guys I’m nearly speechless”, Cutcliffe told ESPN after the game. It seems hard to believe that the Blue Devils had not won a bowl game since 1961 – after all, a guy named Steve Spurrier coached a few years here in the late 1980s – but the Blue Devils had been 0-5 in bowls since their last win. “For our coaches that have smaller children, if they want to have a little Christmas, they’ll have a little bit of time”.
This year, and whenever he played, really, the offense was moving. Jordan Howard and Devine Redding combined for 1,998 yards, while the receiving corps presents a lot of depth. “We didn’t over-schedule things for the kids to do”, IN coach Kevin Wilson explained, “because we’re located a couple blocks between Central Park and Times Square, and the city IN itself is an event”.
Deep in the bowels of Yankee Stadium, outside the home locker room on Saturday night, one saw a jubilant Duke football team and couldn’t help but wonder what might have been.
But most killer: Oakes missed a 38-yarder in overtime after Duke had taken a 44-41 lead with a FG on its OT possession.
Blizzard at Sun Bowl • Luke Falk threw two touchdown passes to lead Washington State to a 20-14 victory over Miami in the snowy Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas. Cash, the best player on Duke’s defense, was named the ACC Defensive Player of the Year. “They know the significance of this win for them and for the program and are very committed to play as well as we can play against a gifted IN team”. Two seasons ago, Duke played for the ACC championship against eventual national champion Florida State, and this year’s 4-4 conference record is viewed by many around the program and the conference as a disappointment.
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Rod riguez, a redshirt freshman from Indianapolis, gave the Hoosiers the third of their four leads with 1:20 to go in the third quarter – running 10 yards into the end zone that is normally right-centerfield, where the other A-Rod sometimes hits rockets. IN had stopped Duke on a fourth down, then quickly marched down the field for the go-ahead score with 4:03 left.
