Duke needs to win two more football games this season, perhaps just one more, to get back to a bowl game.
Bovada.LV posted its preseason over-under win totals and has the Blue Devils at 5.5, right on the cusp of their goal.
Last season, Duke went 4-8 and failed to play in a bowl for the first time since 2011.
The magic number to qualify for a bowl game is six regular-season wins with no more than one being against a Football Championship Subdivision team.
Of course, the bowls have needed to bring in teams with 5-7 regular-season records to fill their games the last two seasons because there weren’t enough 6-win teams available.