1983 Duke Blue Devils football team

1983 Atlantic Coast Conference football standings
	$ – Conference champion; * – Clemson was under NCAA and ACC probation and was ineligible for the ACC title. As a result, their ACC games did not count in the league standings. ; Rankings from AP Poll

1983 Duke Blue Devils football
1983 Duke Blue Devils football
Conference	Atlantic Coast Conference
1983 record	3–8 (3–3 ACC)
Head coach	Steve Sloan (1st season);
Offensive coordinator	John Cropp (1st season)
Defensive coordinator	Richard Bell (1st season)
MVP	Mike Grayson
Captain	Phil Ebinger, Ben Bennett, Mike Grayson, Bill Smith
Home stadium	Wallace Wade Stadium
	Seasons ← 1982 1984 →

The 1983 Duke Blue Devils football team represented the Duke Blue Devils of Duke University during the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season.^[2]

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 3	at Virginia	Scott Stadium Charlottesville, VA		L 30–38	28,947
September 10	at Indiana*	Memorial Stadium Bloomington, IN		L 10–15	41,120
September 17	South Carolina*	Wallace Wade Stadium Durham, NC		L 24–31	20,500
October 1	No. 15 Miami (FL)*	Wallace Wade Stadium Durham, NC	CBS	L 17–56	28,750
October 8	at Virginia Tech*	Lane Stadium Blacksburg, VA		L 14–27	40,700
October 15	Clemson*^A	Wallace Wade Stadium Durham, NC		L 31–38	19,300
October 22	at No. 15 Maryland	Byrd Stadium College Park, MD		L 3–38	40,100
October 29	Georgia Tech	Wallace Wade Stadium Durham, NC		W 32–26	17,650
November 5	at Wake Forest	Groves Stadium Winston-Salem, NC		W 31–21	21,400
November 10	NC State	Wallace Wade Stadium Durham, NC	TBS	W 27–26	19,100
November 19	at North Carolina	Kenan Memorial Stadium Chapel Hill, NC (Victory Bell)		L 27–34	49,500
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

^ Clemson was under NCAA probation, therefore this game did not count in the league standings.^[1]

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1983 Atlantic Coast Conference football standings
v t	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
Maryland $	5	–	0	–	0	8	–	4	–	0
North Carolina	4	–	2	–	0	8	–	4	–	0
Georgia Tech	3	–	2	–	0	3	–	8	–	0
Virginia	3	–	3	–	0	6	–	5	–	0
Duke	3	–	3	–	0	3	–	8	–	0
Wake Forest	1	–	5	–	0	4	–	7	–	0
NC State	1	–	5	–	0	3	–	8	–	0
No. 11 Clemson *	0	–	0	–	0	9	–	1	–	1

$ – Conference champion * – Clemson was under NCAA and ACC probation and was ineligible for the ACC title. As a result, their ACC games did not count in the league standings.^[1] Rankings from AP Poll