1983 Duke Blue Devils football team

1983 Duke Blue Devils football
Conference	Atlantic Coast Conference
Record	3–8 (3–3 ACC)
Head coach	Steve Sloan

1983 Atlantic Coast Conference football standings

	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. Rankings from AP Poll

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

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
September 3	at Virginia	Scott Stadium Charlottesville, VA	L 30–38
September 18	at Indiana*	Memorial Stadium Bloomington, IN	L 10–15
September 17	South Carolina*	Wallace Wade Stadium Durham, NC	L 24–31
October 1	No. 15 Miami (FL)*	Wallace Wade Stadium Durham, NC	L 17–56
October 8	at Virginia Tech*	Lane Stadium Blacksburg, VA	L 14–27
October 15	Clemson*A	Wallace Wade Stadium Durham, NC	L 31–38
October 22	at No. 15 Maryland	Byrd Stadium College Park, MD	L 3–38
October 29	Georgia Tech	Wallace Wade Stadium Durham, NC	W 32–26
November 5	at Wake Forest	Groves Stadium Winston-Salem, NC	W 31–21
November 10	NC State	Wallace Wade Stadium Durham, NC	W 27–26
November 19	at North Carolina	Kenan Memorial Stadium Chapel Hill, NC	L 27–34
*Non-conference game Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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