Duke Football: ESPN predicts Blue Devils for a new bowl game

DURHAM, NC - OCTOBER 20: Daniel Jones #17 of the Duke Blue Devils drops back to pass against the Virginia Cavaliers during their game at Wallace Wade Stadium on October 20, 2018 in Durham, North Carolina. Virginia won 28-14. (Photo by Grant Halverson/Getty Images)
DURHAM, NC - OCTOBER 20: Daniel Jones #17 of the Duke Blue Devils drops back to pass against the Virginia Cavaliers during their game at Wallace Wade Stadium on October 20, 2018 in Durham, North Carolina. Virginia won 28-14. (Photo by Grant Halverson/Getty Images) /
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After another loss, Duke Football has been projected to be in a different bowl game by college football experts at ESPN.

Duke fans seemed to have been bated into false hope as the Blue Devils jumped out to a 4-0 start on the season but have lost three of their last four games.

As the release to the first College Football Playoff Poll gets closer, ESPN has begun to release their own bowl game projections and the Blue Devils who were once in a bowl game very late in the bowl season, have been switched around in the projections.

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Duke is now projected to be in the Walk-On’s Independence Bowl on December 27 at 1:30 pm ET in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Kyle Bonagura and Mitch Sherman are the ESPN Insiders who are projecting these bowl games and they both have the Blue Devils in the same bowl but going up against different opponents.

Bonagura has Duke playing the Houston Cougars and Sherman has the Cincinnati Bearcats playing the Blue Devils.

Both teams come from the American Athletic Conference and are having outstanding seasons, each posting a 7-1 record, while the Cougars are 4-0 in conference as the Bearcats are 3-1.

The Duke Blue Devils still have four games left to improve what bowl game they might appear in and they still need one more victory to become bowl eligible.

The Blue Devils will travel to Miami this upcoming Saturday, before hosting North Carolina, hitting the road once again to take on potential College Football Playoff team Clemson, and then closing out the season at home against Wake Forest.

While the Blue Devils should win at least one of their remaining four games, nothing is ever a sure thing and coming off of a heartbreaking shootout loss to Pittsburgh, Duke needs to respond in a major way to close out the season.

While Duke will not be in them, the first College Football Playoff ranking comes out on Tuesday evening on ESPN.