The 2021 season's largest margin: Duke 45, North Carolina A&T 17. A 28-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2021 — The Correction
2021 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
- Gunnar HolmbergQB2,358 passing yards
- Riley LeonardQB381 passing yards
- Mataeo DurantRB1,241 rushing yards
- Jordan MooreWR221 rushing yards
- Jake BoboWR794 receiving yards
- Jalon CalhounWR718 receiving yards
- Eli PancolWR233 receiving yards
- Shaka HeywardLB97 tackles
- Lummie Young IVS64 tackles
- Da'Quan JohnsonDB61 tackles
- RJ ObenDL5 sacks
- DeWayne CarterDT4.5 sacks
- Aeneas PeeblesDL2 sacks
Season leaders, 2021.
The season's deepest loss: Duke 0, Virginia 48. A 48-point margin the season is remembered by.
"Go Duke"
2021 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.