Duquesne Dukes football

We now go to the Berg on the bluff in front of the Yinzers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where Duquesne exploded for 35 fourth-quarter points to turn a competitive game into a 52-21 rout of the Wagner Seahawks at Rooney Field.

The Seahawks came pace for a half, but the Dukes completely took over after the break, closing the game on a 42-zip run.

Now, Wagner, they trailed just 17-14, a three-point game, before a Duquesne touch pass from Carson Camp to Miles Walker cut the deficit to 21-17 at halftime.

The third quarter was scoreless, but the turning point came when Luke Miller forced a fumble near the goal line, and it was recovered by Duquesne.

at the four to deny Wagner a chance to extend the lead, denied at the doorstep.

The Dukes responded by going the other way, a 96-yard touchdown drive capped off by Camp's one-yard quarterback sneak to take a 24-21 lead.

From there, Duquesne just ran away with it.

Camp added another rushing touchdown.

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Because our buddy, CJ Sullivan, who's the host on the FBS show with us, he's a Duquesne Duke grad.

He gave us Intel...

Before the season started, it's going to be a long season for these Dukes.

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Chris, by chance, do you have this line? I clearly messed this up.

I had Duquesne 3.5. 3.5 on

Fanville.

After the first two, three, four games, I was like, man, I don't know what's going on here.

Finally, Duquesne, it looked a little bit better, but it still wasn't all kind of there against a very subpar FCS program in Pittsburgh.

So I was a little frustrated with Caden Pinnock's ability to kind of, I don't know if it's play at this level or if he's just in his own head or whatever the case may be.

However, we got to see Owen Eshelman, and here we are, and we're moving forward.

We begin in the Berg on the bluff in front of the Insers.

It was homecoming at Rooney Field as the Duquesne Dukes finally played their NEC opener against the LIU Sharks.

It was the lone league game from last weekend.

LIU, they struck first in the opening quarter after recovering a Ness Davis fumble on Duquesne's first offensive possession.

The Sharks took over at the Dukes 32, but the Duquesne defense held LIU to a 43-yard field goal from Will Johnson.

LIU took an early three-nothing lead, and Duquesne responded next time they got the ball following the turnover, giving up the field goal.

They went 10 plays, 67 yards, leaning on the ground game for nine of the ten plays.

There was a 15-yard personal foul penalty on LIU mixed in there as well.

Like, this is a really hard to watch situation on offense, and, uh, uh, we know the considerable economic and roster management headwinds that they have faced, but man, I, I mean, they're, they're just never in the red zone.

Uh, like, they got in there five times against Duquesne, an FCS team, and other than that, two one, two, one, one.

That's their red zone trips.

So yeah, I understand why they're mad that they're scoring touchdowns on half of them.

But yeah, zero college passes.

He did have two college snaps versus Duquesne, and then Kirby Moore was quoted today saying, "Owen has been right there pushing the quarterback room for the past 10 months, and has prepared like the starter.

He's got a very even-keel personality.

Trust the protection, trust your eyes." And the only question that I have here is when Kirby said, you know, "Owen has been there, there pushing the quarterback room for the past 10 months and has prepared like the starter," I mean, I'm ki- I'm pretty surprised as you were at the beginning of the season when it wasn't Owen Eshelman.

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... people, people wanna say, "Oh, yeah, well, like, yeah, there was holdings, calling runs." Guys, this team was holding against Duquesne.

Did we not see the issue, right? There was tons of holding calls against Duquesne.

As always, we'll highlight our top three stars.

We'll look ahead to week number six coming up, and we will bring in our special guest, Duquesne quarterback Carson Camp.

But first, let's get back to this past week with our top headlines.

It's time for The Pick Six.

We mentioned one and O in conference play.

Mercyhurst, they drop to one and five overall, O and one in the conference.

The Sharks now head to Duquesne next Saturday, while Mercyhurst gets a bye before returning home on October 17th to welcome in Central Connecticut State.

By the way, LIU, we, we always talk about how they're great in the second half of conference season.