Every game comes with storylines and isolated facts. Here are a few for the Duke-Miami game on Saturday.
Miami enters the week No. 1 in scoring offense nationally (46.8).
Miami QB Cam Ward is 25 yards from passing Oklahoma’s Landry Jones (16,646) for fifth on the NCAA’s all-time, all-division passing list.
Road teams have won five of the last six games in the Duke- Miami series.
Miami went 13-1 against Duke from 1983 through 2017. Duke is 3-2 against Miami since.
Since the start of the 2018 season Duke is 31-2 (.939) when holding teams to 21 or fewer points, 10-39 (.204) other wise.
This season, Duke is 6-0 when holding teams to 21 or less; 0-2 otherwise.
In its last 48 games that followed a Florida State matchup, Miami is 38-10.
Duke is 3-31-2 all-time against Top 5 opponents, 0-21 since 1960.
Miami is 3-3 in its last six games as a Top 5 team over the last 20 years. It went 45-3 from 2000 through Oct. 30, 2004 as a Top 5 team and is 132-18 overall when ranked that high.
Duke has forced 14 fumbles this season, third-most nationally entering this week, and is tied for third nationally with a plus-12 turnover differential.
source: ESPN
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