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Duke Blue Devils

ACCDurham, NCWallace Wade Stadium

2026: 4–⁠2 (1–⁠2 ACC). Last: lost to North Carolina 24–⁠20 at home. Next: at Virginia, Friday, Oct 23, 7 p.m. ET.

  1. W 17–⁠3Tulane
  2. W 31–⁠27at Illinois
  3. W 35–⁠7Stanford
  4. W 62–⁠7William & Mary
  5. L 25–⁠28at Georgia Tech
  6. L 20–⁠24North Carolina
  7. Oct 23at Virginia
  8. Oct 31Boston College
  9. Nov 7at NC State
  10. Nov 14at Miami
  11. Nov 20Clemson
  12. Nov 28at Wake Forest
  • Outfitted by Nike

Duke in the news

Duke has played football since 1888 and is 541–⁠560–⁠29 in the 1,130 games on record here, which start in 1890. Their best finish in the final AP poll is No. 2, in 1941. They have won 10 Southern Conference titles (the last in 1952) and eight Atlantic Coast Conference titles, counting shared titles. Since 1936, the NFL Draft has taken 64 players from here in its first seven rounds, 8 of them in the first round. The AAFC and AFL drafts also took three players from here. The College Football Hall of Fame holds 9 players and 4 coaches from Duke. Wallace Wade (1931–⁠1950) won more games here than any other coach: 110. The most-played rival is North Carolina: 110 meetings, North Carolina leads 64–⁠42–⁠4. This season, under Manny Diaz, they’re 4–⁠2.

Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham
Wallace Wade StadiumPhoto: User:B, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

On this date in 2002Duke lost to No. 13 NC State 24–⁠22 on the road.

Résumé

All-time record
555–⁠565–⁠31 official; 541–⁠560–⁠29 on file; how we count
Postseason
9–⁠9 matches the official bowl record
AP No. 1 finishes
0
Weeks at No. 1
0 of 164 ranked
Elo now
1602 29th of 138 FBS
Computer rankings
Massey No. 46 · Composite No. 38 in FBS, Oct 17; down 10 since Oct 11. From Massey Ratings
Best season by Elo
1936 rated 1742
Conference titles
18 last in 2025
Seasons
108 since 1890, 1,130 games

Identity

Fight song
Fight! Blue Devils, Fight!
Student section
Wade Wackos

2026 season 4–⁠2

RosterFull 2026 season
DateOpponentResultElo
Sep 5vsTulaneW 17–⁠356%
Sep 12atIllinoisW 31–⁠2746%
Sep 19vsStanfordW 35–⁠780%
Sep 26vsWilliam & MaryW 62–⁠791%
Oct 10atGeorgia TechL 25–⁠2863%
Oct 17vsNorth CarolinaL 20–⁠2475%
Oct 23atVirginiaPreview51%
Oct 31vsBoston CollegePreview77%
Nov 7atNC StatePreview52%
Nov 14atMiamiPreview22%
Nov 20vsClemsonPreview60%
Nov 28atWake ForestPreview37%

Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.

This season, game by game

Duke’s Elo through 2026: 1588 going into the opener, 1602 after the latest game.1575160016251650Elo 1588 going in; beat Tulane 17–3Elo 1611 going in; beat Illinois 31–27Elo 1629 going in; beat Stanford 35–7Elo 1641 going in; beat William & Mary 62–7Elo 1647 going in; lost to Georgia Tech 28–25Elo 1628 going in; lost to North Carolina 24–20Now: Elo 1602 after the latest game1602
TulaneIllinoisStanfordWilliam & MaryGeorgia TechNorth CarolinaNow
Elo going into each game, then after the latest. Filled dots: wins; open: losses.

Future schedule

2027–⁠35
202713 games: 8 home, 5 away
202811 games: 5 home, 6 away
202911 games: 5 home, 6 away
203011 games: 6 home, 5 away
20331 game: 1 home, non-conference only
20351 game: 1 away, non-conference only

Duke’s announced games beyond the seasons on our schedule, as its Wikipedia article lists them (announced schedules as of January 5, 2021). Schedules change; a season shows only the games named so far, and many articles list non-conference games only. Future schedules: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

Players

The 2026 rosterRecord bookAll-time letterwinnersThe money

On the 2026 team

Program greats See all

Heisman finalists, College Football Hall of Famers, consensus All-Americans, national award winners and first-round picks, for what they did at Duke.

Photos: Wikimedia Commons, free licenses; credits on each player’s page.

Around the program

Apparel
Nike · Official source
Mascot
Blue Devil · Official source
Student section
Wade Wackos · Single source
Athletic director
Nina King · Official source
Offensive coordinator
Jonathan Brewer · Official source
Defensive coordinator
Jonathan Patke · Official source

Found by several AI researchers searching the web, then kept only where the page loads and says so in words naming the program; every quote is checked again each time the data is rebuilt. Official source: the school’s own page. All of them.

The apparel deal

Nike, 2016 through 2027. 12 years from 2016.

Apparel deals: Field Drip. Terms as the outlets reported them; checked Oct 3, 2026.

Program strength since 1890

Best seasons ever
Duke end-of-season Elo from 1890 to 2026, best in 1936 at 1742.130015001700190019001920194019601980200020201936 peak: Elo 1742
End-of-season Elo. Dashed line: 1500, an average FBS team.

On Bluesky

  • David Hale

    In 2024 and 2025 -- the 1st 2 years of the 12-team playoff -- 23 P4 teams opened the year 5-0. 13 of 23 made the playoff. 5 others ranked between Nos. 12-18 in the final playoff rankings. The only non-contenders: 2024 Duke and Pitt; 2025 Iowa State, GT and Missouri.

    Read on Bluesky

  • David Hale

    Success Differential vs Explosive Differential through Week 5 (vs FBS only)... Duke is No. 1 in P4 in explosives differential. Stanford is... not. And Kansas? Skewed a bit w/a 55-0 win over MTSU.

    Read on Bluesky

From reporters and writers who cover college football, linked to their posts on Bluesky.

More coverage

Found through the GDELT Project, which indexes news sites worldwide. Each link opens the story on the outlet’s own site; each picture is that outlet’s own preview of its story, shown from its site and credited to it.

Podcasts

Found through Podcast Index, the open podcast directory. Each link opens the episode’s page.

Head coaches

CoachYearsRecord
Manny Diaz2024–⁠202622–⁠11
Trooper Taylor20231–⁠0
Mike Elko2022–⁠202316–⁠9
David Cutcliffe2008–⁠202177–⁠97
Ted Roof2003–⁠20076–⁠45
Carl Franks1999–⁠20037–⁠45
Fred Goldsmith1994–⁠199817–⁠39
Barry Wilson1990–⁠199313–⁠30–⁠1
Steve Spurrier1987–⁠198920–⁠13–⁠1
Steve Sloan1983–⁠198613–⁠31
Red Wilson1979–⁠198216–⁠27–⁠1
Mike McGee1971–⁠197837–⁠47–⁠4
Tom Harp1966–⁠197022–⁠28–⁠1
Bill Murray1951–⁠196593–⁠51–⁠9
Wallace Wade1931–⁠1950110–⁠36–⁠7
Eddie Cameron1942–⁠194525–⁠11–⁠1
Jimmy DeHart1926–⁠193024–⁠23–⁠2
James Herron19254–⁠5
Howard Jones19244–⁠5
S.M. Alexander19235–⁠4
Herman Steiner19227–⁠2–⁠1
James Baldwin19212–⁠0
Floyd J. Egan19200–⁠0–⁠1

Most-played series

All rivalries
OpponentGamesDUKE record
North Carolina11042–⁠64–⁠4 ‡
Wake Forest10562–⁠41–⁠2 ‡
Georgia Tech9335–⁠57–⁠1
NC State8644–⁠37–⁠5
Virginia7434–⁠40
Clemson5618–⁠37–⁠1
Maryland5019–⁠31
South Carolina4424–⁠17–⁠3

Official records. † Without wins the NCAA vacated. ‡ The rivalry’s own count, where it differs from the games on file. Each series page gives both.

Rivals the program names: Georgia Tech, NC State, North Carolina, Virginia, Wake Forest.

Every opponent (99)

Every program Duke has played, A to Z, with Duke’s record against it. Each links to the series, game by game.

Official records. † Without wins the NCAA vacated, or with forfeits counted. ‡ The rivalry’s own count, where it differs from the games on file.

Conference titles

18, counting shared titles
Atlantic Coast Conference 8
1953 (shared), 1954, 1955 (shared), 1960, 1961, 1962, 1989 (shared), 2025
Southern Conference 10
1933 (shared), 1935, 1936, 1938, 1939, 1941 (shared), 1943, 1944, 1945, 1952
ACC Coastal 1
2013

As the program counts them in its Wikipedia article, shared titles included, and listed under each conference’s current name (a Western Conference title of the 1900s counts as a Big Ten title); season pages use the name the conference had that year. A title the article files under a conference the team wasn’t in that season is listed under the one it was. Division titles include years the team tied for its division.

Conferences

  1. Independent 1889–⁠1894 and 1920–⁠1928
  2. ACC since 1953
  • 1953Joined the ACC from the SoCon. Source

Duke’s football conferences by season, from CollegeFootballData.com’s memberships (renamed conferences keep the name of the time). The moves and their announcement dates from Wikipedia’s lists of NCAA Division I conference changes; the year is the first season in the new conference. Conference realignment: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

National award winners

All awards
2014David Helton LBCampbell Trophy
2013David Cutcliffe coachWalter Camp Coach, Bobby Dodd Award
1994Fred Goldsmith coachBobby Dodd Award
1959Mike McGee OTOutland

Consensus All-Americans 6

2015Jeremy Cash DB
2014Laken Tomlinson OL
1989Clarkston Hines WR
1971Ernie Jackson DB
1936Ace Parker QB/RB
1933Fred Crawford OT

In the Hall of Fame

Every inductee
Players
9
Coaches
4
2017Steve Spurrier coach here, 1987–⁠1989
2010Clarkston Hines WR
1990Mike McGee OT
1986Al DeRogatis C/OT
1980Steve Lach RB
1974William D. Murray coach, career 1940–⁠1965
1973Fred Crawford OT
1965Eric Tipton RB
1962Dan Hill C
1961George McAfee RB
1955Ace Parker QB/RB
1955Wallace Wade coach here, 1931–⁠1950
1951Howard Jones coach here, 1924

In the draft

By college
NFL picks, rounds 1–⁠7
64 since 1936
First-round picks
8
AAFC and AFL picks
3 1947, 1949, 1961
2024Graham Barton CNo. 26, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
2019Daniel Jones QBNo. 6, New York Giants
2015Laken Tomlinson OGNo. 28, Detroit Lions
1987Mike Junkin LBNo. 5, Cleveland Browns
1967Bob Matheson LBNo. 18, Cleveland Browns
1965Mike Curtis LBNo. 14, Baltimore Colts
1942Steve Lach FBNo. 4, Chicago Cardinals
1940George McAfee QBNo. 2, Philadelphia Eagles

Who came and went in the 2026 transfer portal, and every portal year.

The school

Duke University
Enrollment
17,499 6,523 undergraduates, fall 2024
Where
Durham, North Carolina
Public or private
Private nonprofit; Research 1
Founded
1838
Graduates’ median earnings
$97,800 10 years after starting

Enrollment, place and Carnegie research tier from the National Center for Education Statistics (IPEDS, public domain). Earnings from the US Department of Education’s College Scorecard (CC BY 4.0): the median for students who received federal aid and were working, not in school. Founding year from Wikidata. Every school’s in the data.

Official accounts

Football
X @DukeFOOTBALLInstagram @dukefootballFacebook DukeFOOTBALL
Athletics department
X @DukeATHLETICSInstagram @dukeathleticsYouTube channel/UCTaDTFFlD-RLrBeAqEQZfyAFacebook DukeATHLETICS

Official accounts: the schools’ athletics websites: the ones goduke.com lists for its football program and athletics department, as of Oct 12, 2026.

Voices

play-by-play
  1. 1952–⁠76Add Penfield radio

From the announcers’ Wikipedia articles (CC BY-SA), with the years as each article gives them: those in Wikipedia’s Duke football announcers category, and any whose article names them the program’s play-by-play voice. Television network crews and announcers whose articles give no years are left out.

On the newsreel

And 21 more

Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.

Books

Books: Open Library (CC0), filed under the program’s Library of Congress subject heading; most-reissued first, each linked to its page there.

Season by season

National champions
SeasonRecordConf.AP preAP finalCoachEloSP+
20264–⁠21–⁠2Manny Diaz16028.2
20259–⁠56–⁠2Manny Diaz16326.6
20249–⁠45–⁠3Manny Diaz16075.6
20238–⁠54–⁠4Mike Elko, Trooper Taylor16039.4
20229–⁠45–⁠3Mike Elko15665.0
20213–⁠90–⁠8David Cutcliffe1323-13.5
20202–⁠91–⁠9David Cutcliffe1375-4.2
20195–⁠73–⁠5David Cutcliffe1497-1.8
20188–⁠53–⁠5David Cutcliffe15735.0
20177–⁠63–⁠5David Cutcliffe15646.1
20164–⁠81–⁠7David Cutcliffe1439-2.8
20158–⁠54–⁠4David Cutcliffe15403.4
20149–⁠45–⁠3David Cutcliffe15837.0
201310–⁠46–⁠223David Cutcliffe15875.0
20126–⁠73–⁠5David Cutcliffe1427-7.1
20113–⁠91–⁠7David Cutcliffe1370-13.3
20103–⁠91–⁠7David Cutcliffe1385-9.6
20095–⁠73–⁠5David Cutcliffe1422-6.1
20084–⁠81–⁠7David Cutcliffe1350-6.7
20071–⁠110–⁠8Ted Roof1250-22.0
20060–⁠120–⁠8Ted Roof1230-19.5
20051–⁠100–⁠8Ted Roof1281-20.2
20042–⁠91–⁠7Ted Roof1344-7.6
20034–⁠82–⁠6Carl Franks, Ted Roof1374-4.0
20022–⁠100–⁠8Carl Franks1288-9.0
Every season back to 1890 (83 more)
SeasonRecordConf.AP preAP finalCoachEloSP+
20010–⁠110–⁠8Carl Franks1215-23.9
20000–⁠110–⁠8Carl Franks1251-16.9
19993–⁠83–⁠5Carl Franks1367-10.2
19984–⁠72–⁠6Fred Goldsmith1356-11.7
19972–⁠90–⁠8Fred Goldsmith1307-5.6
19960–⁠110–⁠8Fred Goldsmith1284-16.2
19953–⁠81–⁠7Fred Goldsmith1403-10.0
19948–⁠45–⁠3Fred Goldsmith15428.2
19933–⁠82–⁠6Barry Wilson1385-10.8
19922–⁠90–⁠8Barry Wilson1386-5.3
19914–⁠6–⁠11–⁠6Barry Wilson1410-8.1
19904–⁠71–⁠6Barry Wilson1461-2.8
19898–⁠46–⁠1Steve Spurrier15775.4
19887–⁠3–⁠13–⁠3–⁠1Steve Spurrier1499-4.6
19875–⁠62–⁠5Steve Spurrier1472-2.4
19864–⁠72–⁠5Steve Sloan1385-12.5
19854–⁠72–⁠5Steve Sloan1385-11.7
19842–⁠91–⁠6Steve Sloan1348-15.9
19833–⁠83–⁠4Steve Sloan1448-7.0
19826–⁠53–⁠3Red Wilson15445.6
19816–⁠53–⁠3Red Wilson14953.5
19802–⁠91–⁠5Red Wilson1380-7.0
19792–⁠8–⁠10–⁠6Red Wilson1358-6.1
19784–⁠72–⁠4Mike McGee1426-2.5
19775–⁠62–⁠4Mike McGee149610.5
19765–⁠5–⁠12–⁠3–⁠1Mike McGee15016.2
19754–⁠5–⁠23–⁠0–⁠2Mike McGee1490-4.9
19746–⁠52–⁠4Mike McGee14643.5
19732–⁠8–⁠11–⁠4–⁠1Mike McGee1398-13.0
19725–⁠63–⁠3Mike McGee14902.8
19716–⁠52–⁠3Mike McGee15034.0
19706–⁠55–⁠2Tom Harp14753.1
19693–⁠6–⁠13–⁠3–⁠1Tom Harp1413
19684–⁠63–⁠4Tom Harp1419
19674–⁠62–⁠4Tom Harp1466
19665–⁠52–⁠3Tom Harp1512
19656–⁠44–⁠2Bill Murray1543
19644–⁠5–⁠13–⁠2–⁠1Bill Murray1466
19635–⁠4–⁠15–⁠2Bill Murray1553
19628–⁠26–⁠08Bill Murray1631
19617–⁠35–⁠120Bill Murray1611
19608–⁠35–⁠110Bill Murray1601
19594–⁠62–⁠3Bill Murray1481
19585–⁠53–⁠2Bill Murray1551
19576–⁠3–⁠25–⁠1–⁠11016Bill Murray1569
19565–⁠4–⁠14–⁠116Bill Murray1610
19557–⁠2–⁠14–⁠018Bill Murray1654
19548–⁠2–⁠14–⁠01514Bill Murray1675
19537–⁠2–⁠14–⁠01018Bill Murray1682
19528–⁠25–⁠01916Bill Murray1659
19515–⁠4–⁠14–⁠2Bill Murray1553
19507–⁠35–⁠216Wallace Wade1591
19496–⁠34–⁠214Wallace Wade1574
19484–⁠3–⁠23–⁠2–⁠1Wallace Wade1532
19474–⁠3–⁠23–⁠1–⁠11319Wallace Wade1546
19464–⁠53–⁠2Wallace Wade1586
19456–⁠24–⁠01313Eddie Cameron1635
19446–⁠44–⁠011Eddie Cameron1660
19438–⁠14–⁠057Eddie Cameron1696
19425–⁠4–⁠13–⁠1–⁠1Eddie Cameron1597
19419–⁠15–⁠032Wallace Wade1738
19407–⁠24–⁠118Wallace Wade1708
19398–⁠15–⁠0138Wallace Wade1735
19389–⁠15–⁠093Wallace Wade1733
19377–⁠2–⁠15–⁠11020Wallace Wade1688
19369–⁠17–⁠0211Wallace Wade1742
19358–⁠25–⁠0Wallace Wade1692
19347–⁠23–⁠1Wallace Wade1654
19339–⁠14–⁠0Wallace Wade1663
19327–⁠35–⁠3Wallace Wade1606
19315–⁠3–⁠23–⁠3–⁠1Wallace Wade1555
19308–⁠1–⁠24–⁠1–⁠1Jimmy DeHart1593
19294–⁠62–⁠1Jimmy DeHart1454
19285–⁠5Jimmy DeHart1481
19274–⁠5Jimmy DeHart1470
19263–⁠6Jimmy DeHart1336
19254–⁠5James Herron1357
19244–⁠5Howard Jones1392
19235–⁠4S.M. Alexander1444
19227–⁠2–⁠1Herman Steiner1510
19212–⁠0James Baldwin1512
19200–⁠0–⁠1Floyd J. Egan1482
1890few games on file0–⁠11483

Officially 555–⁠565–⁠31 since 1888 (per Wikipedia, rechecked weekly); game by game here, 541–⁠560–⁠29 (−14 wins, −5 losses, −2 ties). Our file starts in 1890; the program began in 1888. Some games are missing from our source.

No season on file for 1891–⁠1919: the program may not have played, or our source may be missing them.

Records are computed from every game on file at CollegeFootballData.com, whose coverage of the earliest seasons can be incomplete. Elo is this site’s own rating; see how it works on the records page.