1960 Duke Blue Devils football team

The 1960 Duke Blue Devils football team represented Duke University during the 1960 NCAA University Division football season.^[2] Led by eighth-year head coach William D. Murray, the Blue Devils were Atlantic Coast Conference champions,^[3][4][5][6] and won the Cotton Bowl by a point over favored Arkansas.^[7][8][9]

It was Duke's sixth and most recent major bowl appearance, and its only trip to the Cotton Bowl. The program's next bowl was nearly three decades away, in 1989,^[10] and the next bowl win came in 2015.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 24	at South Carolina		Carolina Stadium Columbia, SC	W 31–0	37,000	[11]
October 1	at Maryland		Byrd Stadium College Park, MD	W 20–7	25,000	[12]
October 8	at Michigan*		Michigan Stadium Ann Arbor, MI	L 6–31	77,183	[13]
October 15	NC State		Duke Stadium Durham, NC (rivalry)	W 17–13	28,000	[14]
October 22	Clemson		Duke Stadium Durham, NC	W 21–6	33,000	[15]
October 29	Georgia Tech*	No. 15	Duke Stadium Durham, NC	W 6–0	40,000	[16]
November 5	No. 4 Navy*	No. 13	Duke Stadium Durham, NC	W 19–10	46,000	[17]
November 12	at Wake Forest	No. 7	Bowman Gray Stadium Winston-Salem, NC (rivalry)	W 34–7	16,500	[18]
November 19	at North Carolina	No. 6	Kenan Stadium Chapel Hill, NC (Victory Bell)	L 6–7	42,000	[19]
December 3	at UCLA*	No. 11	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA	L 6–27	23,357	[20]
January 2, 1961	vs. No. 6 Arkansas	No. 10	Cotton Bowl Dallas, TX (Cotton Bowl)	W 7–6	74,000	[21]
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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