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Only 3.5 as favorites? I would have thought it would be more but it is in Chapel Hill. After watching them against Duke, I don't know, I just don't think they are that good. Defense does not make open field tackles and the quarterback is nothing special. Their running back impressed me a...

Back in the day, Dodd hated going to Durham. It was usually a small crowd and even his good teams seemed to struggle at times there. And Duke always got up for us. They have been usually, though not always, a difficult team for Tech especially in Durham.

Did you think the offensive pass interference called against Duke was legit? It looked to be so to me but it gets called so seldom, that I actually thought the officials were going to call it on us.

Murphy is kind of up and down. He played really well against UNC but not so much against Northwestern. I think he is a good player but has to have a lot of protection from the line because he goes down easy.

Well, it works against bad teams but any defense with alert corners and safeties will shut it down. Our receivers are small and fast but not particularly good blockers.

I don't remember anyone saying that Duke was an up and coming dynasty. That will never happen but they did beat UNC. We should beat UNC handily as their season begins to fall apart but we will see.

UNC has talent. They always have talent and the running back is a fine player but this team got shut down by Duke in the second half last week. Carolina looks like a team ready to mail it in the rest of the season. We will see.

A bad team? A 5-0 record for a team like Duke is pretty good. I was impressed with their defense against North Carolina and the way that they ran the ball against North Carolina. I will concede that Duke has been fortunate with an easy schedule but they are not a bad team in my estimation...

Too much in my view but he is the play caller.

If you have the ball for 19 minutes longer than your opponent...you are probably going to win a lot of games. Duke ran up and down the field against UNC but could not do that against Tech. Their quarterback was a pretty good 18 of 31 but he is not the kind of player that can put a team on his...

Disagree. We should beat Duke. But then, so should UNC and we saw what happened there.

Thanks. I stand corrected. Looking at the play, it looked as though someone touched it in the melee but hard to tell who.

I stand corrected. You are right. UNC was punting the ball went back across the LOS and was recovered by UNC who proceeded as you posted to march down the field to get another field goal that was to be their last score of the game. After that, UNC did not move the ball on the ground and could...

Yep. You were right and I was wrong. Crazy game. I had forgotten that a punt blocked by the receiving team that goes back across the LOS is a free ball and can be recovered by the receiving team for a first down. UNC managed to recover the punt and drive for a field goal. From that point...

I say that Duke is in a similar situation we were in going into the Louisville game. Not much left in the tank. Coming off a rivalry game for them and a bye week for us bodes well. I believe that the only way Duke can win is through a sloppy and ugly game which is what they do this year...

Not even close to being in that rarefied air. Look at the difference between their defensive linemen and ours. Like night and day. We are a long way from being a top 25 team much less playoff caliber. IIWII

You want to go bowling do you? Well, Tech had one bite at the apple, so to speak, at Syracuse and could not finish the drill. Had another at Louisville, nope. This is it. Tech must win BOTH Duke and UNC. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. For those into such things, College Football News...

Feel "disrespected"? Win some ball games and you will get respect, sort of.

After watching the Duke/UNC game from Saturday, all I can say is "I would rather be lucky than good." UNC blocked a punt pretty deep in Duke territory and the ball took a crazy high bounce and went forward past the line of scrimmage. While a couple of UNC players looked on in wonderment, an...

Duke has perfected the long lost art of winning ugly. Living on the edge only goes so far so we will see what they have in the tank this Saturday. That said, undefeated is undefeated.