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The 2013 win also gave Duke the outright Coastal Division championship and sent Duke to the ACC Championship Game for the first time since its 2005 inception and became the first Coastal Division representative other than Virginia Tech or Georgia Tech. Duke is the last university in the North Carolina Triangle region to win an ACC football ...
After losing the Victory Bell in 2003, North Carolina came back the next year and beat Duke 40–17 in Duke's Wallace Wade Stadium. [3] After the conclusion of the game, North Carolina football players immediately spray-painted the platform Carolina blue, leaving large amounts of Carolina blue paint residue on the track of the stadium. [ 7 ]
The first game against North Carolina was the first "scientific" game in the state. [2] Trinity finished the first two seasons in their football history with records of 2–1 in 1888 and 1–1 in 1889. [1] From 1890 to 1895, Trinity competed without a head coach. [3] The 1891 team went undefeated.
Duke and North Carolina were on a collision course to meet in the national title game 31 years ago. It's a scenario that still haunts former Tar Heels to this day.
The football rivalry between Duke and North Carolina began in 1888, when Duke University was called Trinity College. Trinity won the first game in the longstanding rivalry series. While the basketball rivalry between the two teams overshadows the importance of the yearly matchup on the gridiron, the football iteration has presented its fair ...
The North Carolina Tar Heels halted their two-game losing streak and re-entered the AP Top 25. Bowl eligible for the second consecutive season, Duke Blue Devils looks to end its four-game losing ...
With a 27–25 win over North Carolina on November 30, 2013, Duke locked up their first 10-win season in school history, the Coastal Division title, and a spot in the 2013 ACC Championship Game against Florida State, during which time Duke was ranked No. 20. [92]
It wasn't that long ago that Saturday night's rivalry matchup between No. 24 North Carolina and Duke seemed set to give the winner a push toward the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game.