Year: | 2015 |
Team: | Duke Blue Devils |
Sport: | football |
Conference: | Atlantic Coast Conference |
Division: | Coastal Division |
Short Conf: | ACC |
Record: | 8–5 |
Conf Record: | 4–4 |
Head Coach: | David Cutcliffe |
Hc Year: | 8th |
Off Coach: | Scottie Montgomery |
Oc Year: | 2nd |
Off Scheme: | Multiple |
Def Coach: | Jim Knowles |
Dc Year: | 6th |
Def Scheme: | 4–2–5 |
Mvp: | Jeremy Cash |
Captain: | Jeremy Cash, Matt Skura |
Stadium: | Wallace Wade Stadium |
Champion: | Pinstripe Bowl champion |
Bowl: | Pinstripe Bowl |
Bowl Result: | W 44–41 OT vs. Indiana |
The 2015 Duke Blue Devils football team represented Duke University in the 2015 NCAA Division I FBS football season as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) in the Coastal Division. The team was led by head coach David Cutcliffe, in his eighth year, and played its home games at the newly renovated Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham, North Carolina. They finished the season 8–5 overall and 4–4 in ACC play to tie for fourth place in the Coastal Division. They were invited to the Pinstripe Bowl, where they defeated Indiana, 44–41, in overtime.
Name | Position | Seasons at Duke | Alma mater | |
---|---|---|---|---|
8th | Alabama (1976) | |||
Offensive coordinator/The Baxter Family Associate head coach/quarterbacks | 3rd | Duke (1999) | ||
John Latina | Offensive line/Assistant head coach/Running game coordinator | 4th | Virginia Tech (1981) | |
5th | Cornell (1987) | |||
Jim Collins | Defensive ends | 8th | Elon (1974) | |
Wide receivers | 4th | Duke (2011) | ||
Matt Guerrieri | 4th | Davidson College (2011) | ||
8th | Ole Miss (2001) | |||
Derek Jones | 8th | Ole Miss (1996) | ||
Re'quan Boyette | Running backs | 4th | Duke (2009) | |
Offensive Quality Control | 5th | Ole Miss (2004) | ||
Patrick O'Connor | Defensive Quality Control | 4th | Dickinson College (2010) | |
Offensive Graduate Assistant | 3rd | Yale University (2012) | ||
Eli Keimach | Offensive Graduate Assistant | 2nd | Massachusetts (2014) | |
Clayton McGrath | Defensive tackles/Graduate Assistant | 3rd | Brown University (2011) | |
Sam McGrath | Defensive Graduate Assistant | 1st | Brown University (2012) | |
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See also: 2015 Tulane Green Wave football team.
See also: 2015 North Carolina Central Eagles football team.
See also: 2015 Northwestern Wildcats football team.
See also: 2015 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team.
See also: 2015 Boston College Eagles football team.
See also: 2015 Army Black Knights football team.
See also: 2015 Virginia Tech Hokies football team.
See also: 2015 Miami Hurricanes football team.
This game is best remembered for the finish, in which Miami used eight laterals to return the kickoff with no time left and get the win. However, photographic evidence later proved that one of the laterals was still in the Miami player's hand as his knee was down, which if caught by the referees would have ended the play and kept Duke the winners. The ACC apologized to Duke and suspended the officials from this game.
See also: 2015 North Carolina Tar Heels football team and Victory Bell (Duke–North Carolina).
See also: 2015 Pittsburgh Panthers football team.
See also: 2015 Virginia Cavaliers football team.
See also: 2015 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team and Tobacco Road rivalry.
See also: 2015 Indiana Hoosiers football team and 2015 Pinstripe Bowl.