Duke Blue Devils

Duke football games went over the total nine times in 13 in 2025, and only seven FBS teams saw overs more often. The Blue Devils also made money on the moneyline as underdogs and gave it back as favorites.

Overs

Duke’s 2025 regular season ran to 13 games, the ACC Championship included. Nine of them finished above the posted total, four below. Duke’s over rate sat eighth in FBS, with no tie. Duke scored 34.0 points a game and allowed 28.69; 20 FBS teams averaged more points.

Favored nine times, beaten four

Duke was the favorite in nine games and lost four of them: 34-27 at Tulane as 1.5-point favorites, 27-18 to Georgia Tech at -3.5, 37-34 at UConn at -7.5 and 34-17 to Virginia at -5.5. One unit on Duke in the eight priced favorite games finished 1.7 down; only 24 FBS teams did worse as favorites.

As underdogs

Three games, two wins. Duke won 46-45 at Clemson at +155, then beat Virginia 27-20 at +145 in the ACC Championship, having lost to them at home on 15 November. The one underdog loss was 45-19 to Illinois at +2.5. Those three games returned 2.0 units.

Against the spread and the moneyline

Duke covered seven of the 12 games with a line; Elon had none. The covers were four of six away and two of five at home. On the moneyline the 11 priced games ended 0.3 units up: 1.18 up away, 2.33 down at home.

The season closed with a 42-39 Sun Bowl win over Arizona State.

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