History Suggests Duke Football Debate Isn’t No-win Situation Premium Content

ACCSports Staff

By Al Featherston
ACCSports.com
October 10, 2006

DURHAM — Once upon a time, Duke football was the ACC’s crown jewel.

Even though that sounds like the opening line of a fairy tale, it’s not. Hard as it may be for young (or even middle-aged) fans to believe, the Blue Devils were a national power when the ACC was formed in the spring of 1953.

In its final Southern…


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