Duke coach Ted Roof

The Duke-Northwestern series in football will be knotted up at 7-7 until Duke (0-2) plays at Northwestern (2-0) on Saturday at 8 p.m.

It isn't that often Duke gets to play the "Duke" of another BCS conference (Big Ten: Northwestern, Big 12: Baylor, Pac-10: Stanford, SEC: Vanderbilt). Unlike Duke, the Wildcats are off to a 2-0 start with win over Division I-AA Northeastern and Nevada.

Northwestern went 4-8 in 2006, the first under Pat Fitzgerald, and according to Roof, are improved.

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"They have not turned the football over yet this year," Roof said. "They've won the second half 36 to 7 so they're a second-half football team. They make you defend the entire width of the field. It ought to be a different deal for us — night game, road game, Big Ten game."

09/13/07 at 12:46
JP, I have searched high and low for a blog entry on the big Terps-WVU game but see nothing? You have an article on Duke Football though? Carolina Bias. What a joke!!!


The Mountaineer/Terp rivalry over the years has been a great one. I will never forget the year at Byrd that WVU and Danny "Lightning Bug" Buggs beat us. He went for a TD with half of his shirt ripped off late in the game. Morgantown is a great place to travel for an away game, tailgates everywhere in a real college atmosphere.

09/13/07 at 17:38
OK, we can make this into a blog about WVU & UMD. My guess is the Mountaineers DO NOT fear the turtle . . . for good reason.

09/14/07 at 11:02
Ted Roof's scouting report for every game:

Our opponent seems to be more talented and better coached at all positions. We may lost this one.