The Duke football team hosts the North Carolina Tar Heels on Saturday with a chance to beat UNC for the first time since 2018, and the Blue Devils hope to channel the same energy Durham saw in 2012.
Entering that edition of the rivalry, North Carolina had beaten the Blue Devils in 21 of the last 22 years, including each of the previous eight contests. And with 19 seconds left in the game, it looked like the streak might continue.
Duke trailed 30-26 and faced a fourth-and-2 from the 5-yard line, needing a first down at minimum to keep the game alive. Quarterback Sean Renfree dropped back and surveyed for several seconds, struggling to find an opening amid the seven Tar Heels in coverage, before throwing a dart to a sophomore receiver named Jamison Crowder right at the goal line.
Crowder caught the ball amid two North Carolina defenders, getting flipped forward as he secured the catch. When he popped up with the ball in hand, however, the Blue Devils took the 33-30 lead with seconds left on the clock.
Renfree finished the game with 276 passing yards and a touchdown, and Crowder caught five passes for 41 yards. The wideout finished that year with 1,074 yards, his first of three consecutive 1,000-yard seasons. He caught 108 passes for 1,360 yards as a junior in 2013, single-season school records that stand to this day, and he just started his 10th NFL season.