The Duke Blue Devils football odds were iffy coming into the season, with a program trying to replace a fine coach in Mike Elko, who departed Durham for Texas A&M.
But the 2024 season has gone quite well so far under new coach Manny Diaz. Duke is 4-0 after knocking off Middle Tennessee State on Saturday, 45-17. The Blue Devils have only eaten one Power Four team (winning at Northwestern, 26-20, in double overtime on Sept. 6). But all it takes is six wins to be bowl eligible and Duke is two-third of the way there.
All season, BetCarolina.com ā where the best North Carolina sportsbook promo codes reside ā is updating our hypothetical odds board on which bowl games we see Duke playing in during the 2024 bowl season. This weekās list is headed by ACC bowl arrangements in Charlotte and Annapolis.
Bowl | Location | Conference Opponent | Odds | Percentage Chance |
Dukeās Mayo Bowl | Charlotte, NC | vs. Big Ten | +325 | 23.5% |
Military Bowl | Annapolis, MD | vs. American Athletic | +325 | 23.5% |
Sun Bowl | El Paso, TX | vs. Big Ten | +450 | 18.2% |
Pop-Tarts Bowl | Orlando, FL | vs. Big 12 | +800 | 11.1% |
Pinstripe Bowl | Bronx, NY | vs. Big Ten | +800 | 11.1% |
The Field / No Bowl | +1000 | 9.1% |
North Carolina sportsbooks have lines on every major college football game, but these projections are exclusive to BetCarolina.com.
The Blue Devils have defeated Football Championship Subdivision program Elon (about 40 miles northwest of Durham), Northwestern of the Big Ten, FBS independent Connecticut and Conference USA member MTSU.
ACC play starts this week as the Blue Devils square off against archrival North Carolina, which travels about 10 miles to Brooks Field at Wallace Wade Stadium for a 4 p.m. kickoff on Saturday (ESPN2). For anybody in North Carolina who is new to sports betting, which launched in the state in March, we provide an NC college football betting guide for reference.
We have co-favorites for Dukeās postseason destination, the Dukeās Mayo Bowl (how fitting) in Charlotte and the Military Bowl in Annapolis, Maryland. Trips to Texas, Florida and New York are also on our radar for the Blue Devils, who end their season with eight consecutive games against ACC opposition, including an Oct. 26 date hosting league newcomer SMU and a Nov. 2 showdown at No. 7 Miami.
As of Sept. 23, Duke has +10000 odds to win the league at BetMGM North Carolina Sportsbook.
The relative prosperity that Elko brought back to Durham from 2022 to 2023 obscured the fact that the Blue Devils were down bad when David Cutcliffe called it quits as coach. The program went 10-22 from 2019-21 and missed out on the bowl season all three years to end the veteran coachās tenure.
Before that, Cutcliffe led Duke to a bowl game in six of the previous seven seasons. Those trips included the Independence Bowl in 2018, the Quick Lane Bowl in 2017, Pinstripe Bowl in 2015, Sun Bowl in 2014, Chick-fil-A Bowl in 2013 and the Belk Bowl in 2012.
That stretch ended a long drought in Durham. Before that Belk Bowl bid, Duke hadnāt gone to a postseason game since the 1994 Hall of Fame Bowl, in Fred Goldsmithās first season as coach. That was 17 seasons of football without a postseason game for the Blue Devils.
Now, itās up to Diaz to extend Dukeās streak of reaching the postseason to three seasons. Blue Devils fans and bettors using NC sports betting apps will hope that the teamās recent run of good fortune wasnāt confined to the teachings of their now-former head coach.
USA Today photo by James Guillory
Year | Bowl | Result |
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2023 | Birmingham Bowl | Win, 17-10 against Troy |
2022 | Military Bowl | Win, 30-13 against UCF |
2021 | No Bowl Game |
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2020 | No Bowl Game |
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2019 | No Bowl Game |
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For the 2024-25 college football season, Duke is currently projected to play in either the Duke's Mayo Bowl in Charlotte or the Military Bowl in Annapolis; we give both scenarios equal +325 odds, which translates to a 23.5% chance.
Duke has not qualified for a bowl game yet; itās still too early in the season. The most recent postseason appearance for the Blue Devils was in the 2023 Birmingham Bowl, a 17-10 win against Troy.
Author
Christopher Boan is a lead writer at BetCarolina.com specializing in covering state issues. He has covered sports and sports betting in Arizona for more than seven years, including stops at ArizonaSports.com, the Tucson Weekly and the Green Valley News.
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