Pitt : Pitt Readies for Coastal Division Clash with Duke at Heinz Field

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"GAME STORYLINES
• Seeking bowl eligibility in the final month of the season, Pitt hosts nationally ranked Duke at Heinz Field. The No. 24 Blue Devils are 6-1 overall and atop the Coastal Division logjam with a 2-1 league mark. The Panthers are 4-4 and 2-2.
• Pitt and Duke are annual foes as members of the Coastal Division. In last year's inaugural ACC meeting, the Panthers outlasted the Blue Devils, 58-55, behind six Tom Savage touchdown passes. The combined 113 points set a Pitt single-game record.
• Duke will visit Pittsburgh for the first time in nearly 40 years. The Panthers last hosted the Blue Devils during the 1975 season. Pitt triumphed in that game, 14-0.
• Duke owns the nation's No. 5 scoring defense, surrendering just 15.1 points per game. The Panthers are scoring 29 points per contest this year.
• Pitt sophomore running back James Conner is making a strong case for ACC Offensive Player of the Year. Conner leads the ACC and ranks seventh nationally in rushing yards with 1,079. He also tops the ACC and is fifth nationally with 14 rushing touchdowns.
• Led by James Conner, the Panthers are producing 233.9 rushing yards per game to rank 19th nationally and third in the ACC. Duke, in contrast, is giving up an average of 193.4 yards on the ground, which ranks 13th in the ACC and 99th nationally.
• Keying Duke's success has been turnover margin. The Blue Devils are an ACC-best plus-8 in that category. Pitt is last at minus-6.
• Pitt is fielding one of its youngest rosters in memory. Pitt went through the preseason with 81 underclassmen (53 freshmen and 28 sophomores), the highest total of any Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) team in the country.
PITT-DUKE HISTORY IN BRIEF
Series Began: 1929
Series Overall: Pitt leads 10-8
ACC Series: Pitt leads 1-0
At Pittsburgh: Series tied 4-4
At Duke: Pitt leads 6-4
At Neutral Sites: DNA
Last Meeting at Pitt: Oct. 4, 1975 (Pitt 14, Duke 0)
Last Meeting at Duke: Sept. 21, 2013 (Pitt 58, Duke 55)
Current Streak: Pitt has won 4 (1969, 1975-76, 2013)
Longest Pitt Series Win Streak:4 (1969, 1975-76, 2013)
Longest Duke Series Win Streak: 5 (1940-42, 1950-51)
Largest Pitt Victory Margin:45 points (52-7, 1929)
Largest Duke Victory Margin: 28 points (28-0, 1942)
SERIES NOTES
This is the 19th meeting between Pitt and Duke in a series that dates back to 1929...it is also the second-ever Atlantic Coast Conference matchup between the two schools...Pitt and Duke meet annually as members of the ACC's Coastal Division...the Panthers triumphed last year, 58-55, at Duke, the first meeting between the two schools since 1976...Pitt has won the last four meetings (1969, 1975-76, 2013) and leads the overall series, 10-8...Duke's last win in the series was in 1966, a 14-7 decision in Pitt Stadium...there have been some milestone moments in the Pitt-Duke series...on Sept. 29, 1951, Duke defeated Pitt, 19-14, in the first live nationwide telecast of a sporting event...NBC was responsible for the landmark broadcast...the inaugural game of the series was on Oct. 5, 1929, when Pitt defeated host Duke, 52-7, in the first game ever played at "Duke Outdoor Stadium," later renamed Wallace Wade Stadium...the 1937 and 1938 games featured two of the nation's very best teams and a pair of legendary coaches in Pitt's Jock Sutherland and Duke's Wallace Wade...on Nov. 27, 1937, the No.1-ranked Panthers defeated the No. 18 Blue Devils, 10-0...Pitt would finish 9-0-1 to claim the national title (Duke finished 7-2-1)...on Nov. 26, 1938, the No. 3 Blue Devils blanked the No. 4 Panthers, 7-0, in what would be Sutherland's final game as Pitt's coach...Duke finished the 1938 regular-season unbeaten (9-0), untied and unscored upon, but lost to Southern California in the Rose Bowl, 7-3...Pitt, which did not go to a bowl, finished 8-2.
BROADCAST INFORMATION
Television • ESPNU
Adam Amin, play-by-play
John Congemi, analyst
Cara Capuano, reporter
Pitt Radio • 93.7 The Fan & the Pitt IMG Sports Network
Bill Hillgrove, play-by-play
Pat Bostick, analyst
Larry Richert, reporter
SiriusXM Satellite Radio
Sirius Channel 108, XM Channel 193
WPTS Radio (Pitt Student Station) • 92.1 FM
Pitt IMG Sports Network Online Audio Options
PittsburghPanthers.com via CSLive
Pitt LiveWire Gameday App
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Really looking forward to this one, mostly because I will be at the game. Weather is not supposed to be nice: 40s/30s and rain that could turn to snow. Oh well.
LET'S GO PITT!!!