The 2016 season's largest margin: Duke 49, North Carolina Central 6. A 43-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2016 — The Correction
2016 is a losing-side chapter for Duke. The program metabolises it; the voice does not apologize.
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
Who carried it
- Daniel JonesQB2,795 passing yards
- Shaun WilsonRB573 rushing yards
- Jela DuncanRB410 rushing yards
- T.J. RahmingWR739 receiving yards
- Anthony NashWR398 receiving yards
- Chris TaylorWR315 receiving yards
- Joe Giles-HarrisLB100 tackles
- Ben HumphreysLB96 tackles
- Deondre SingletonS55 tackles
- A.J. WolfDT5.5 sacks
- Corbin McCarthyS3.5 sacks
- DeVon EdwardsS3 sacks
Season leaders, 2016.
The season's deepest loss: Duke 14, Pittsburgh 56. A 42-point margin the season is remembered by.
"Go Duke"
2016 sits in Duke's crisis ledger. The program does not moralise it. The next season begins the day this one ended and the crisis chapter closes when the ledger does.