The Duke football schedule has finally been released and the ACC did the Blue Devils no favors starting with the first week of the season.
At long last, there is an ACC football schedule that has been released and things won’t start off easy for the Blue Devils as compared to their previous schedule.
The conference announced each 11-game schedule for its members on Thursday morning and Duke is off to South Bend, Indiana to get things started in 2020.
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While the ACC opponents for each team were announced last week, the conference made it known that each team would be allowed to play one non-conference team from inside its home state and David Cutcliffe opted to play the Charlotte 49ers, who were scheduled to come to Wallace Wade Stadium in the original version of the 2020 slate.
Duke’s 2020 football schedule is as follows:
September 12 – at. Notre Dame
September 19 – vs. Boston College
September 26 – BYE
October 3 – vs. Virginia Tech
October 10 – at. Syracuse
October 17 – at. North Carolina State
October 24 – BYE
October 31 – vs. Charlotte
November 7 – vs. North Carolina
November 14 – at. Virginia
November 21 – vs. Wake Forest
November 28 – at. Georgia Tech
December 5 – vs. Florida State
Neither times nor television networks have been announced as of yet but an interesting note in the schedule is two bye weeks within very close proximity of each other as compared to potentially two off weeks spread out throughout the schedule.
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The ACC teams that Duke will not play this regular season are Clemson, Louisville, and Pittsburgh although the Blue Devils could potentially see the former two in a potential ACC Championship Game which would be held either December 12 or December 19 at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina.
With Clemson transfer quarterback Chase Brice set to become the starter for Duke, the Blue Devils are looking to get back to the postseason after a disappointing 5-7 campaign in 2019.
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Duke has participated in a bowl game in six of the last eight years as David Cutcliffe has one of the more underrated teams in the ACC this upcoming season.