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Pitt looking for 3rd straight win Saturday night against Duke in road contest

DURHAM, N.C. — No team in Duke’s division has been harder on the Blue Devils than Pittsburgh.

Since the Panthers joined the Atlantic Coast Conference before the 2013 season, Duke is just 1-5 against them — its worst record against any Coastal Division opponent in that span.

But after beating one of its perennial nemeses a week ago, the Blue Devils will try to knock off another one Saturday night when Pitt visits.

“We just kind of have like a little revenge tour on every team that we lost to last year,” Duke linebacker Koby Quansah said.

The Blue Devils (3-1, 1-0) had lost three straight to Virginia Tech before routing the Hokies 45-10. Now comes a challenge from yet another team that has dominated them lately.

Pitt (3-2, 0-1) has won the last four meetings, making this Duke’s longest active losing streak against a division opponent. They’ve come in all sorts of styles, claiming a blowout (56-14 in 2016), a shootout (54-45 last year) and a relatively low-scoring game (24-17 in 2017).

Yet Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi bristled when he was reminded that he’s never lost to Duke, saying “I don’t know. I’m worried about 2019. It doesn’t matter.”

Duke coach David Cutcliffe says he doesn’t need to remind his players about their struggles against the Panthers.

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