The 1996 Duke Blue Devils football team represented Duke University as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) during the 1996 NCAA Division I-A football season. Led by third-year head coach Fred Goldsmith, the Blue Devils compiled an overall record of 0–11 with a mark of 0–8 in conference play, and finished ninth in the ACC. Duke played home games at Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham, North Carolina.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	TV	Result	Attendance	Source
September 7	3:30 pm	at No. 3 Florida State	Doak Campbell Stadium Tallahassee, FL	ABC	L 7–44	70,181	[1]
September 14	3:30 pm	Northwestern*	Wallace Wade Stadium Durham, NC	ABC	L 13–38	29,321	[2]
September 21	12:00 pm	at Army*	Michie Stadium West Point, NY	HTS	L 17–35	36,049	[3]
September 26	8:00 pm	at Georgia Tech	Bobby Dodd Stadium Atlanta, GA	ESPN	L 22–48	44,145	[4]
October 5	12:00 pm	at Navy*	Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium Annapolis, MD	HTS	L 27–64	31,365	[5]
October 12	12:00 pm	Clemson	Wallace Wade Stadium Durham, NC	JPS	L 6–13	23,586	[6]
October 26	12:00 pm	Maryland	Wallace Wade Stadium Durham, NC	JPS	L 19–22	18,751	[7]
November 2	1:30 pm	No. 16 Virginia	Wallace Wade Stadium Durham, NC		L 3–27	28,276	[8]
November 9	12:00 pm	at NC State	Carter–Finley Stadium Raleigh, NC (rivalry)	JPS	L 22–44	47,200	[9]
November 16	1:30 pm	at Wake Forest	Groves Stadium Winston-Salem, NC (rivalry)		L 16–17	17,842	[10]
November 23	12:00 pm	No. 13 North Carolina	Wallace Wade Stadium Durham, NC (Victory Bell)	JPS	L 10–27	30,264	[11]
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time

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