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.

Schedule

Personnel

Roster

Coaching staff Name Position Seasons atDuke Alma mater David Cutcliffe Head Coach 8th Alabama (1976) Scottie Montgomery 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) Jim Knowles Defensive coordinator 5th Cornell (1987) Jim Collins Defensive ends 8th Elon (1974) Jeff Faris Wide receivers 4th Duke (2011) Matt Guerrieri Safeties 4th Davidson College (2011) Zac Roper Special teams coordinator/Tight ends/recruiting coordinator 8th Ole Miss (2001) Derek Jones Assistant Special Teams coordinator/Defensive Backs 8th Ole Miss (1996) Re'quan Boyette Running backs 4th Duke (2009) Marcus Johnson Offensive Quality Control 5th Ole Miss (2004) Patrick O'Connor Defensive Quality Control 4th Dickinson College (2010) Josh Grizzard 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)Reference:

Game summaries

At Tulane

North Carolina Central

No. 23 Northwestern

No. 20 Georgia Tech

Boston College

At Army

At Virginia Tech

Miami (FL)

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.

At No. 21 North Carolina

Pittsburgh

At Virginia

At Wake Forest

Vs. Indiana (Pinstripe Bowl)

Rankings

References