{"id":432,"date":"2010-11-23T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=432"},"modified":"2011-01-13T19:34:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T00:34:06","slug":"devils-look-to-revitalize-the-football-rivalry-with-heels-in-their-bowl-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=432","title":{"rendered":"Devils look to revitalize the football rivalry with Heels in their &quot;bowl game&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina is fighting for a berth in the Music City Bowl while Duke is considering the finale at home against the Heels as their bowl game.<\/p>\n<p>Duke coach David Cutcliffe said that the last game a team plays leaves &#8220;a little taste in your mouth that lasts.&#8221; He said through recruiting and into Spring practice it stays fresh in your mind.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It certainly kicks off the offseason the way you would like it to be kicked off,&#8221; he said, especially if the last victory comes against chief rival North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s a great tradition, one of the better traditions in college football,&#8221; Cutcliffe said of the rivalry and the winning team getting the Victory Bell. &#8220;We just need to recreate a rivalry by playing well at Duke and winning a few of these ball games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Carolina has won 19 of the last 20 meetings, losing 30-22 in 2003 in Chapel Hill. Duke hasn&#8217;t beaten the Tar Heels at home since 1988.<\/p>\n<p>UNC coach Butch Davis said that Cutcliffe has improved the Blue Devils team every year. &#8220;Statistically they&#8217;re better, athletically they&#8217;re better, and fundamentally and schematically they&#8217;re a better football team,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>On top of the challenge from Duke, Davis said that losing two games in a row has been disappointing. &#8220;Emotionally and psychologically this will put our football team very much to the test of just bouncing back and playing to the very best of our ability this week,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina is fighting for a berth in the Music City Bowl while Duke is considering the finale at home against the Heels as their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duke-blue-devils","category-uncategorized","wpcat-82-id","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}