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Duke football teases black end zone design for 2024’s final game at Wallace Wade Stadium

The Duke football team debuted its final end zone design of the 2024 regular season on Friday, a different look from the rest of the year.

The Duke Blue Devils play in front of the Wallace Wade Stadium crowd for the final time this season on Saturday night, and the team debuted a new field design for the occasion.

According to a photo shared by the team on Friday afternoon, the field crew painted the end zones black instead of the usual blue for this weekend’s game against Virginia Tech.

The Blue Devils usually don their traditional blue and white, but they’ve incorporated black into several uniform combinations already this season. Duke wore an all-black outfit against the North Carolina Tar Heels in Week 5, black jerseys against Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets in Week 6, and black helmets against the Florida State Seminoles and NC State Wolfpack.

Duke has won four of its first five games in Durham this season, and since the start of 2022, the Blue Devils are 15-3 at Wallace Wade Stadium. A win over the Hokies could clinch their third consecutive eight-win season.

The end zones of Wallace Wade Stadium will feature the script ‘Duke’ logo against SMU

The Duke grounds crew shared a photo of Brooks Field at Wallace Wade Stadium on Friday, including a look at the Week 9 end zone design.

The Duke Blue Devils are fully embracing the return of the script logo for Week 9.

After bringing back the hold script ‘Duke’ football helmets for Saturday’s game against SMU, the main design from 1978 to 2003, the team grounds crew shared a photo on Friday that showed just how committed the program is to the throwback.

The photo of Brooks Field at Wallace Wade Stadium showed blue end zones with the word ‘Duke’ in white in the signature script font.

“Starting to come together,” the grounds crew wrote in the caption of the post.

The school name has been in the end zone of every home game this season, but it’s always been in large block lettering. The grounds crew added a devil on either side of the word for the Week 5 game against the North Carolina Tar Heels.

Duke’s script helmets and end zone design can be seen on ACC Network at 8:00 p.m. Eastern time this Saturday.

Duke football has now won 15 of its past 17 home games at Wallace Wade Stadium

With Friday’s victory over the Florida State Seminoles, the Duke Blue Devils now have a 15-2 record at home since 2022.

Duke students and the football fans of Durham must be getting used to celebrations by now.

The Blue Devils beat the Florida State Seminoles on Friday night, a 23-16 triumph for the first win over FSU in school history. Head coach [autotag]Manny Diaz[/autotag] pointed out after the game that, since 2022, the Blue Devils have only lost twice in their home stadium.

“Wallace Wade is a hard place for an opposing team to come win,” Diaz said. “That’s just what the facts say, and our players, they believe that. They feel great playing at home.”

Diaz has won each of his first four home games as part of his 6-1 start, defeating Elon and Connecticut in non-conference play before the 20-point comeback over the North Carolina Tar Heels in Week 5. Under the previous head coach, Mike Elko, the Blue Devils went 5-1 at home in 2022 and 6-1 in 2023, only losing to the Tar Heels and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

It all adds up to a 15-2 record in Durham over the past three seasons, including last year’s season-opening upset of the Clemson Tigers.

Duke puts that sterling home record to the test next weekend against the ranked SMU Mustangs. That Week 9 battle is scheduled for 8:00 p.m. on Saturday.

Duke football fans storm the field at Wallace Wade Stadium after North Carolina comeback

Blue Devils fans celebrated their first win over North Carolina since 2018 by racing onto the field at Wallace Wade Stadium.

They weren’t keeping anybody off the field at Wallace Wade Stadium on Saturday.

The Blue Devils scored three unanswered touchdowns to surge past the North Carolina Tar Heels, and the 21-20 victory was their first over UNC since 2018. Linebacker Tre Freeman sealed the win with an interception on North Carolina’s last offensive play.

With the Victory Bell back in Duke’s possession for the first time in five years, the fans at Wallace Wade Stadium celebrated by rushing the field.

Saturday was Duke’s second field-storming in two seasons. Blue Devils fans also made their way onto the grass after last season’s opening win over the Clemson Tigers.

The Blue Devils improved to 5-0 for the first time since 1994, and transfer running back [autotag]Star Thomas[/autotag] played an essential role in the comeback. The former New Mexico State star ran for 166 yards, added 45 yards as a receiver, and found the end zone twice to etch his place in rivalry history.

First-year Duke head coach Manny Diaz, who previously worked for UNC head coach Mack Brown, picked up his first win over his former boss.

Duke football announces all-inclusive ‘Devils Deck’ experience at Wallace Wade Stadium

The Duke Blue Devils announced the ‘Devils Deck’ on Monday, a new all-inclusive section of Wallace Wade Stadium available to fans.

Duke football announced one of its most ambitious and comprehensive additions to Wallace Wade Stadium on Monday with the Devils Deck.

The elevated deck behind the north end zone will include grass standing and seating areas, yard games, a live DJ, and unlimited tailgate food and non-alcoholic beverages. Alcoholic beverages will be available to purchase.

More than 1,500 Duke football fans can experience The Devils Deck during a Blue Devils game, and they will get the chance to see it just next month for the start of the 2024 season.

“We wanted to take our gameday experience to a new level,” first-year Duke football coach [autotag]Manny Diaz[/autotag] said in a release from the team. “With the addition of the Devils Deck, fans get access to an exclusive fun tailgating atmosphere, while still being inside the stadium to watch the game.”

According to that same release, Devils Deck passes can be added to regular tickets for $55 on game day, but fans can save $10 by buying the pass a day in advance.

The Devils Deck will be ready for Blue Devils fans on August 30 for the season opener against Elon.

Duke football announces partnership with social media content creator Rachel DeMita

Rachel DeMita, who boasts more than one million Instagram followers, will attend every Duke home game this year and create content with the team.

Blue Devils fans lost social media superstar [autotag]Jared McCain[/autotag] to the NBA earlier this summer, but there will be another internet celebrity in Durham this fall.

Rachel DeMita, a social media content creator who previously worked with the Big3 basketball league, announced on Thursday that she would attend every home game on the Duke football schedule this season. Her partnership with the team will also include social media content.

Video game fans might also recognize DeMita from NBA 2KTV, a show aired in connection with the famous NBA 2K franchise. Former Duke basketball star Jayson Tatum will actually appear on the cover of the newest edition, NBA 2K25.

The newest member of the Blue Devils content team sports more than one million followers on Instagram. Demita might not match McCain’s millions of followers on TikTok, but she comfortably sits above 400,000 followers on that platform as well.

DeMita’s tenure with the Blue Devils begins on August 30 with the season opener against Elon. Watch her announcement below.

Video shows Duke football player doing ‘Bull City’ gesture in EA Sports College Football 25

A Duke fan shared a clip of a Blue Devils football player making the team’s iconic ‘Bull City’ hand gesture in EA Sports College Football 25.

EA Sports really put all the details a college football fan can think of in College Football 25.

Fans who preordered the Deluxe Edition can access the game a few days early, so the content was already hitting social media on Monday night. The game features the expanded 12-team playoff, ratings for individual players, and all the bells and whistles.

One Duke fan posted about getting to play as the Blue Devils on X (the social media platform formerly known as Twitter) and found an iconic detail.

In the brief clip shared to social media, Duke cornerback Joshua Pickett ran up to the camera and put his fists together with his thumbs sticking out on either side, forming the Blue Devils’ ‘Bull City’ gesture.

EA Sports already confirmed that the hand gesture, along with dozens of other specific celebrations for other fanbases, would be in the game earlier in the summer, but actually seeing it makes it so much more real.

Wallace Wade Stadium already appeared in the College Football 25 trailer for Duke fans’ first sneak peek, and the team posted a video revealing all of their uniform combinations in the game.

EA Sports College Football 25 trailer briefly features the Duke Blue Devils

EA Sports released a trailer for the anticipated College Football 25 on Friday, and eagle-eyed Duke fans could spot Wallace Wade Stadium.

The first official trailer for EA Sports College Football 25 was released on Friday morning, and Duke fans got a glimpse of Wallace Wade Stadium and the Blue Devils.

At the 0:55 mark of the two-minute clip, there’s a short image of Blue Devils donned in the home blue uniforms jogging onto the field before a wide shot of them racing onto the field surrounded by the university band and some flashy pyrotechnics.

The team already confirmed it would be in the game back in February. Check out our predictions for the five highest-ranked Blue Devils in the game, from new quarterback Maalik Murphy to star cornerback Chandler Rivers, here.

The game revealed on Thursday that it will be released on July 19, so Duke fans will need to wait until the summer to bring College Football Playoff titles to Durham. However, they can rewatch that small moment from the trailer for a taste of the Wallace Wade Stadium satisfaction.

Dabo Swinney Shares what he DON’T LIKE about Wallace Wade Stadium

We’re officially less than one week away from the season-opener between Clemson and Duke, and thanks to coach Swinney, we get some locker room trash talk.ย 

We’re officially less than one week away from the season-opener between Clemson and Duke, and thanks to coach Swinney, we get some locker room trash talk.

“The other unique thing about (the stadium) that I do not like, and nobody likes that plays at Duke, is you have to โ€” I mean, it’s like a two- or three-minute walk,” Swinney said on the latest edition of Tigers Call. “It’s a long way to get to the locker room. A long way. And in college football, you barely have enough time to go to the bathroom and talk for 30 seconds in there, and it’s time to go again.”

This is the Tigers’ first trip to Duke since 2012, and the school made a few changes.

Duke completed a $100 million stadium renovation in 2017. The renovation included removing the running track, adding premium seating and luxury suites, and improving operations facilities.

Swinney is excited to see the new upgrades, but the most essential upgrade hasn’t happened.

“Everybody has talked about how nice it is and what a great job they’ve done with the improvements,” Swinney said. “But I did ask about the locker room journey and that is, unfortunately, I think, still the case.

Ranking the ACC’s football stadiums based on capacity

Home-field advantage plays a pivotal role in college football, and in the ACC, that advantage is magnified based on varying levels of fan capacities in stadiums.

Fans make a difference in the outcomes of games in sports, and there is no more apparent evidence of that phenomenon than in college football.

Every Saturday, hundreds of thousands of fans pack themselves in stadiums across the country in hopes that their cheers will aid a team in victory.

For Clemson, the fan involvement on gameday has greatly benefited the team’s success. With the aid of thousands of fans screaming, the Tigers have won their last 34 games in Memorial Stadium dating back to Nov. 12, 2016, when Clemson lost to Pittsburgh.

In total, there are 14 football stadiums in the ACC, one for each team. Seven of the 14 can hold 60,000 or more fans, while two are also home to NFL teams on Sundays.

Just like an army, there is strength in numbers for a fan base, so here’s every football stadium in the ACC ranked based on attendance capacities.