One relatively safe bet is the 2023-24 Duke football team's competition at quarterback will pale in comparison to that at LSU, Georgia, Tennessee, and Ole Miss.
But that's just one of a few reasons the Blue Devils may at least stay to the end in the battle for Isidore Newman (La.) rising sophomore quarterback Arch Manning, the grandson to Archie, nephew to Peyton and Eli, and son of eldest brother Cooper (i.e., Arch shares genes with three men who combined for more than 150,000 passing yards and 1,000 touchdown passes in the NFL).
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Another reason David Cutcliffe and his staff should remain in the mix for the New Orleans native is that degrees from those four SEC universities — 247Sports currently lists them and Duke as the five "interests" for Arch Manning — would, quite frankly, pale in comparison to a degree from the private school in Durham.