The Duke Blue Devils needed a lot of luck to get past the Pittsburgh Panthers, but after four quarters and two overtime periods, Duke came out on top.
It wasn’t the most exciting game on the page at the beginning of the day, but Duke and Pittsburgh turned in a thriller that needs double-overtime to settle. This wasn’t what you’d define as a neat game, as the Blue Devils and Panthers went back and forth with mistakes that led to points — or in one critical moment a mistake that led to no points.
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The play that everyone will be talking about occurred at the end of regulation, when Pitt was driving for a game-winning score and set their field goal kicker up with a chance to win the game on a chip shot. If there is one thing even the most casual college football fan should know about the sport, it’s never trust a kicker.
Chris Blewitt missed a chip shot that would have given the Panthers a 41-38 win over Duke but it just wasn’t meant to be. Despite over 600 yards of total offense on the afternoon and a thrilling final drive, the leg of a kicker was what broke the Panthers chances of winning.
In overtime, neither team proved that they had learned to play defense over the course of the first 60 minutes of play, and it became a contest of will. Duke did what they seemingly to do best and simply outlasted Pitt in the end.
The game wasn’t the prettiest game of the week, but it ended up being an early thriller from the ACC and was a nice way to kick off an otherwise slow day of college football.
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