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Though, Duke Was Tied With Pittsburgh 10-10 At Halftime Saturday Duke Completed 2023 Regular Season With 30-19 Win Over Pittsburgh As Todd Pelino Kicked, Made 48 Yard Field Goal In 4th Quarter

Though, Duke was tied with Pittsburgh 10-10 at halftime Saturday Duke completed 2023 regular season with 30-19 win over Pittsburgh as Todd Pelino, kicked, made 48 yard field goal in 4th quarter.

Where?

Durham!

As Duke completed 2023 regular season with 30-19 win over Pittsburgh Saturday Todd Pelino kicked, made 47 yard field goal giving Duke a 3-0 in 1st quarter before Pittsburgh countered with field goal of their own a 35 yard field goal by Ben Sauls tying up the game 3-3. In the 2nd quarter Pittsburgh would take a 10-3 lead as Karter Johnson caught 21 yard pass Nate Yarnell, Ben Sauls kicked, made extra point though, that lead wouldn’t last as Duke would tie up the game up at halftime 10-10 as Jordan Moore would catch 10 yard pass from Grayson Loftis, Todd Pelino kicked, made extra point . In the 3rd quarter Todd Pelino would kick, make 25 yard field goal giving Duke a 13-10 lead over Pittsburgh. Though, that lead wouldn’t last as Pittsburgh would counter with field goal of their own a 47 yard field goal by Ben Sauls evening the game at 13-13 before Duke would take the lead yet again! Though, this time, Duke wouldn’t relinquish the lead as Jalon Calhoun would catch 15 yard pass from Grayson Loftis, Todd Pelino would kick, make extra point giving Duke a 20-13 lead in the 3rd quarter before extending their lead over Pittsburgh in 4th quarter as Jaquez Moore ran for 3 yard touchdown, Todd Pelino would kick, make extra point extending Duke’s lead over Pittsburgh 27-13 before Pittsburgh would counter with touchdown of their own as Bub means would catch 14 yard pass from Nate Yarnell for touchdown. Though, 2 point conversion would fail making score 27-19 Duke before Todd Pelino would kick, make 48 yard field goal giving Duke 30-19 win in 4th quarter.

According to espnapp

Following Duke completing 2023 regular season with 30-19 win over Pittsburgh Saturday in Durham Duke Head Coach Mike Elko had this to say about his team about his teams defense about how they performed in 4th quarter!

It’s a great product,”It’s a great environment. It’s a great atmosphere, and that’s where it’s got to start. If you want to be a great program, you’ve got to win football games at home.”

We just started actually running the defense the way we’re supposed to,

That’s probably been the thing that’s gotten the most frustrating a little bit over the last couple of weeks. I just think we haven’t been able to be focused enough to execute at the level that you need to be a good defense at times. Early on (against Pitt), that wasn’t happening.”

Following Duke completing 2023 regular season with 30-19 win over Pittsburgh Saturday Duke red shirt senior , Defensive End R.J. Oben had this to say about how Duke was able execute defensively!

It feels great that we were able to execute, that we’re able to bring that and be the most physical team,”

“We try to do that every week, especially the d line. Bring that physicality, bring that toughness to the field and to the defense and I think we did that today.”

According to Stephen Wiseman article on newsobserver.com

Duke now awaits their bowl destination who their bowl opponent is going to be as it is going to be announced a week from today!