Duke (0-0; 9-4 in 2014) at Tulane (0-0; 3-9 in 2014)
Thursday, September 3, 2015 • 9:30 p.m. ET • CBS Sports Network
New Orleans, La. • Yulman Stadium (30,000 • UBU Speed Series 5M Turf)

• Duke kicks off its 103rd season of football by travelling to face Tulane Thursday, September 3 at 9:30 p.m. ... The game will be televised live by CBS Sports Network with Rich Waltz (play-by-play), Adam Archuleta (analyst) & Cassie Gallo (sideline)

• In 2014, the Blue Devils went 9-4 overall and 5-3 in ACC play ... Duke received a bid to the Hyundai Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas, where the Blue Devils fell to No. 15 Arizona State, 36-31

• Saturday's game will mark the fifth meeting between Duke and Tulane ... The Green Wave picked up wins in 1964 (17-0 in New Orleans) and 1973 (24-17 in Durham) while Duke's pair of victories came in 2011 in Durham (48-27) and in 2014 in Durham (47-13) ... The series is scheduled to continue in 2019 (Durham) and 2020 (New Orleans)

• Duke opens the season on the road for the first time since 2005 (East Carolina) ... The Blue Devils haven't won a season lid-lifter on the road since 1988 (31-21 at Northwestern)

• Duke owns an all-time record of 484-498-31 in 102 seasons

• Now in his eighth season with the Blue Devils, David Cutcliffe is 40-48 at Duke and 84-77 overall as a head coach

• Duke enters the season having won three straight and nine of its last 10 true road games dating back to the start of the 2013 campaign ... The lone defeat in the stretch is a 22-10 setback at Miami in 2014

• Dating back to the 2013 season, the Blue Devils are 17-3 in their last 20 regular season games

• Duke's 19 wins over the past two seasons mark the program's best two-year victory total in school history ... The previous standard of 17 wins was set in both 1935-36 & 1938-39

• In 2015, the Blue Devils will aim to post their third consecutive season with both 20+ rushing and 20+ passing TDs ... Duke & Florida State are the only two ACC schools to accomplish the feat in each of the past two years

• The Blue Devils enter the Tulane game having won 10 straight regular season games versus non-conference foes ... Duke is 11-4 in its last 15 games against non-ACC opponents

• Under head coach David Cutcliffe, the Blue Devils are 5-2 in season openers including last year's 52-13 triumph over Elon ... Duke enters the Tulane game having won three consecutive lid-lifters

• In 2014, Duke boasted a league-high 13 selections to the Academic All-ACC football squad ... Duke's total was followed by Syracuse (9), Pittsburgh (8), Wake Forest (6), Miami (5), N.C. State (5), North Carolina (4), Clemson (3), Boston College (2), Florida State (2), Georgia Tech (2), Louisville (2), Virginia (2) and Virginia Tech (2)'

• Bob Harris, the voice of the Blue Devils, enters his 40th season as the play-by-play announcer for the Blue Devil IMG Radio Network ... Harris begins the 2015 season having called 446 consecutive Duke football games dating back to the 1976 season-opening 21-18 win at Tennessee

Blue Devils by the Numbers
• 19-8 — Duke's overall record over the past two seasons to post the high¬est two-year win total in school history

• 235 & 20.0 — Career tack¬les and tackles for loss for S Jeremy Cash, who is one of just five active players in the nation with 200+ tackles and 20.0+ TFL

• 11 — Combined career TD recep¬tions for TEs Braxton Deaver & Da¬vid Reeves — the top total among active TE duos in the ACC

• 5 — Career non-offensive TDs for S DeVon Edwards on 2 INTs & 3 KORs

• 7 — Career INTs for CB Breon Bor¬ders, marking the most by a Blue Dev¬il through his sophomore season since Wyatt Smith had nine in 1988-89

• 421 — Points scored by Duke in 2014 to post the second-highest total in school history (459 in 2013)

• 310 — Career points for K Ross Martin, who enters the 2015 season ranking tied for 16th on the ACC's all-time scoring list ... Already Duke's career leader in total points, Martin sits 90 points shy of becoming just the third player in league history to reach the 400-point plateau

• 22 — Games played as a member of the Duke Baseball team in 2015 by CB Johnathan Lloyd ... An outfielder, Lloyd batted .243 (9-37) with three doubles, two RBI and one stolen base as the Blue Devils posted a 31-22 overall record

• 4 — Duke offensive linemen with 500+ snaps of experience heading into the 2015 season — C Matt Skura (2,030), LG Lucas Patrick (1,110), OT Casey Blaser (902) & OG Cody Robinson (541)

• 1,055 — Career rushing yards for RB Shaquille Powell, who pairs with teammate Jela Duncan (1,115) to form the only RB duo in the ACC with 1,000+ rushing yards each

• 8 — Rushing TDs for QB Thomas Sirk in 2014 to match the third-highest total by an ACC QB, trailing only North Carolina's Marquise Williams (13) & Boston College's Tyler Murphy (11)

• 40 — Wins for Duke in seven seasons under head coach David Cutcliffe ... In the previous eight sea-sons (2000-07) prior to Cutcliffe's ar¬rival, the Blue Devils won just 10 total games

• 16-0 — Head coach David Cut¬cliffe's record when allowing 10 points or less (8-0 at Ole Miss & 8-0 at Duke)

• 13.54 — ACC-leading punt return average for Duke in 2014

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