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Duke Football: Saturday night’s outcome is vital to future attendance

When the Duke football staff members are searching for ideas to consistently fill the stands in Wallace Wade Stadium — despite recent improvements, low attendance has remained an issue — they need only concern themselves with one solution: having the squad win when fans do show up for ultra-hyped games.

And they will show up on Saturday night.

In addition to the opponent, Virginia Tech, still being ranked No. 24 in the Amway Coaches Poll — where Duke is No. 23 — despite its loss at Old Dominion last weekend, the temperature at the 7 p.