“A touchdown pass from Sean Renfree to Jamison Crowder for five yards with less than 13 seconds remaining in the game gave the Duke Blue Devils a 33-30 victory over the arch-rival North Carolina Tar Heels, in a game that Duke dominated for the first three quarters before being forced to make a comeback of their own.”<\/p>\n
– Pardeep Toor, Asheville Citizen-Times<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cThe main thing that was going through my head was, \u2018Just hold on to the ball, and when I realized I still had it, I just wanted to get to the sideline and celebrate with my team.\u201d<\/p>\n
– Jamison Crowder, Duke receiver<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThey outplayed us and they out-executed us in every phase of the game.\u201d <\/p>\n – UNC coach Larry Fedora<\/strong><\/p>\n “The Blue Devils’ prospects for a victory looked slim after North Carolina (5-3, 2-2) erased a 14-point lead in the fourth quarter with a bizarre touchdown. Quarterback Bryn Renner found Erik Highsmith wide open down the left seam, but Highsmith was stripped by Duke safety Jordan Byas on Duke’s 22 yard-line. Duke cornerback Ross Cockrell dove on the ball but could not hold it, and North Carolina running back Giovani Bernard scooped up the ball at the four yard-line and ran in for the score.”<\/p>\n – Nick Piotrowicz. Rocky Mount Telegram<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cHonestly, that play doesn\u2019t even matter. We lost the game. That one play, that\u2019s just a little something out of the whole game. But we didn\u2019t execute the whole day. We didn\u2019t come out ready to win and we lost the Bell, and it hurts.\u201d<\/p>\n – UNC’s Gio Bernard<\/strong><\/p>\n “The Blue Devils were ready to play, came out firing at the line of scrimmage and really never let up. How they responded to UNC taking the lead was quite impressive. This program has grown up so much.”<\/p>\n – Andrew Jones, Fox Sports Carolinas<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThis is why you play college football. You dream of this as a kid, playing your rival to go bowl eligible, doing something special pretty much the last play of the game \u2013 it doesn’t get any better.”<\/p>\n – Sean Renfree, Duke QB<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “A touchdown pass from Sean Renfree to Jamison Crowder for five yards with less than 13 seconds remaining in the game gave the Duke Blue…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-duke-blue-devils","category-featured-stories","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-82-id","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4509","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=4509"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4516,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4509\/revisions\/4516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}