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Duke nearly beat Florida State with Riley Leonard playing on a balky right ankle. The Blue Devils will need him fully healthy if they want a rematch.
Playing on the road against one of the nation’s top teams, Duke failed in a number of areas where it normally finds success as its hopes to beat Florida State vanished in the fourth quarter.
No. 4 Florida State hopes to start the second half of its season just like it did the first: by beating a ranked team. Seven weeks after upsetting then-fifth-ranked LSU in the opener, the Seminoles face their second Top 25 opponent of the season when 16th-ranked Duke visits Doak Campbell Stadium on Saturday night for an Atlantic Coast Conference showdown between two of the three remaining unbeatens in league play. “At the end of this, someone’s going to have a clearer path to (the ACC title game
Duke and Florida State are two of three remaining unbeatens in league play, along with 10th-ranked North Carolina. The Seminoles have won 12 in a row overall, the third-longest streak in the country, and have scored at least 30 points in each of those. That's the second-longest 30-point streak in ACC history.
No. 4 Florida State hopes to start the second half of its season just like it did the first: by beating a ranked team. Seven weeks after upsetting then-fifth-ranked LSU in the opener, the Seminoles face their second Top 25 opponent of the season when 16th-ranked Duke visits Doak Campbell Stadium on Saturday night for an Atlantic Coast Conference showdown between two of the three remaining unbeatens in league play. “At the end of this, someone’s going to have a clearer path to (the ACC title game in) Charlotte than the other one,” Duke coach Mike Elko said.