Tag: Clemson
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Stopping the Run is Biggest Key vs. Clemson
Syracuse has fallen into the same trap for many of its most painful losses over the last three seasons. Elite running backs have destroyed the SU defense. Last week against Maryland was no different. The Terrapins were top ten in yards per carry among Power Five teams in 2018, so it came as no surprise…
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Who’s the Best Player for every team on Syracuse’s schedule (Part 1)
Now that we‚Äôre almost halfway through June, and Syracuse football hasn‚Äôt made much traction on the recruiting trail, it seems like a good time to look at next season‚Äôs opponents. Specifically the best player on each of those teams. So, this list will go game by game to give Orange fans a preview of who…
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Syracuse’s Second Half Struggles Continue At Clemson
Syracuse basketball ended its season on a sour note on Saturday, again having trouble performing in the second half. For the fourth game in its last five, SU was leading at halftime but wound up with the loss. In the final game of the regular season, the Orange lost to Clemson by a score…
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Is Syracuse Really the Second-Best Team in the ACC?
The College Football Playoff Rankings came out Tuesday, and at No. 19, Syracuse (6-2, 3-2) is the second-highest ranked team in the ACC‚Ķ not too shabby. The only ACC team ranked ahead of the Orange is Clemson, but there are three others behind: No. 21 NC State (5-2, 2-2) No. 22 Boston College (6-2, 3-1)…
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Looking at Past Syracuse Bowl Teams Against Ranked Opponents: How Does This Year’s Team Stack Up?
Syracuse has played in 25 bowl games, which ranks 45th¬†among all current FBS programs. In those years, the Orange has faced 73 ranked opponents, going 30-40-3. On Saturday, Syracuse has a chance to beat a ranked opponent for the first time all year. The last time the Orange failed to beat a ranked team in…
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Mid-season SU Football MVP Power Rankings
Syracuse is 4-2 going into the bye week. There were ups, there were downs, but these 11 players deserve high praise for their first halves to the season. 1. Eric Dungey Last week at Pitt was a sub-par from Dungey. But when a bad week is leading your team to 37 points on the road,…
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Can You Solve This Syracuse Football Bye Week Math Equation?
Well, the Orange is off this week, which means something must be done to keep everyone excited during the bye. With that said, what better way is there to do that than another Syracuse football equation? So, here‚Äôs a step-by-step problem that includes every opponent the Orange faces (or has already faced) this season: Step…
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Is It Really Time to Raise SU’s Season Expectations?
Despite entering at 4-0, Syracuse clearly had doubters to prove wrong as 24.5-point underdogs against Clemson. Safe to say, it did just that. SU led for a majority of the game, but a masterful drive capped by a Travis Etienne touchdown robbed the Orange of one of its biggest wins ever. With that said, there…
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9/28 Pregame FizzCast: Syracuse Football Eyes the Tigers
David Edelstein and Harrison Singer preview Syracuse football’s Week 5 game at Clemson. Tigers freshman Trevor Lawrence will get his first start at QB while QB Kelly Bryant announces he will transfer. What effect will this have? Can Syracuse take advantage? It is said that Clemson is a loud place, but will the noise affect…
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Taking Down Clemson: How the Orange May Be Able to Rewrite Program History
Syracuse prepares for its trip to Clemson with a chance to turn history into fairytale. The Orange is 4-0 for the first time since 1991, but can still accomplish much more. As if Syracuse fans needed more reason to get excited, a win would over the Tigers would almost guarantee the Orange gets ranked for…
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Tiger Tracker: Three Players to Watch for Clemson
It seems like every week, SU is finding one way or another to make this season a special one. In week one against Western Michigan, Eric Dungey set the single-game rushing record for an SU quarterback. Against Wagner, he tied the school record for most TD passes in a game with 5. Week 3 saw…
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What SU Should be Thankful for this Thanksgiving
After a promising start, Syracuse football is in danger of finishing the season where it began. Considering the mood surrounding the program back in October, that‚Äôs a shocking statement, to say the least. Just after the Orange‚Äôs surprise win over Clemson, I wrote about the next steps¬†that SU needs to take as a program. Unfortunately,…
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Where Does Syracuse’s Upset of Clemson Rank All-Time?
Friday night was a moment in Syracuse history which won’t be forgotten in a long time. It was one of the best SU sports moments in recent memory. It may very well be the flashpoint of the next great era of SU football. Many old school SU fans were taken back to the day inside…
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FWAA names Syracuse National Team of the Week
The Football Writers’ Association of America named Syracuse its National Team of the Week Tuesday after SU’s upset of then-No. 2 Clemson Friday. It is the second time the Orange has been given the honor, and the first since 2004 when Syracuse upset No. 17 Boston College in its last Big East game. The win…
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How does SU’s upset over Clemson affect recruiting?
SU‚Äôs astounding victory over Clemson on Friday night had every single ingredient that a great upset needs. It came out of nowhere. It was a dominant effort (SU never trailed in the game). It saw one of SU‚Äôs most maligned units step up. It was a home victory in front of the largest crowd of…
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Top 10 Syracuse Victories of The Past Five Years
The SU football and basketball programs have been filled with ups and downs the past five years. However, the ups have been incredibly high and Friday night was another example of that. So it got me thinking, where does Friday night rank among the best SU wins in the past five years? After some digging,…
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My Apologies: We Were Wrong About Syracuse
After the Syracuse football upset of No. 2 Clemson Friday night, I think ‚Äúsorry, but we got it wrong‚Äù is something a lot of sports writers are saying (or maybe just thinking and not actually saying, though, because we like to be right and try to be right for our readers). But all bets…
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Emergency FizzCast: Breaking Down Syracuse’s Monumental Upset of Clemson
After Syracuse’s massive upset over #2 Clemson, Tyler Aki and Jonathon Hoppe discuss how exactly it happened and what it means.
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Dungey shines and Syracuse shocks Clemson in 27-24 upset
Syracuse fans came into Friday night‚Äôs tilt with No. 2 Clemson with no reason to believe SU would win. The Orange was shutout and lost by more than 50 last season to Clemson in Death Valley, and through five weeks SU hadn‚Äôt given the fans much reason to think this time around would be different.…
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Friday the 13th: Cuse Shocks Clemson, Nabs Program Defining Win
Dino Babers has spoken the words since the day he’s walked into town. It’s at times been hard to believe. The Syracuse head coach has said the program will eventually notch the big victories that define winning schools. He finally made good on that promise. In fact, he’s now made good on that promise twice.…
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Tabs on the Tigers: 4 Clemson players to watch on Friday
SU football picked up its first ACC win of the season and its first win over Pitt since 2012 last week in an ugly 27-24 victory inside the Carrier Dome. The Orange‚Äôs week 7 opponent is another feline foe, but this one is a whole different cat. The Clemson Tigers head to Central New York…
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FizzCast: Syracuse vs Clemson Preview
With half the Syracuse football season in the books,¬† Tim Leonard and Jonathon Hoppe breakdown SU’s rollercoaster start and analyze this weeks matchup against undefeated Clemson.
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How Much Better is SU Since it Last Played Clemson?
It‚Äôs mid-October, which means Syracuse is in the middle of another daunting ACC schedule. I don‚Äôt know about you, but when SU plays teams like Clemson, I think a lot about the big picture. Other than the colors of their uniforms, there aren‚Äôt many similarities between these two programs.¬†How is it possible that there‚Äôs such…
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How Syracuse Beats Clemson
Does Syracuse have a chance against Clemson? Well, on paper, it might not seem so. Syracuse has lost every regular season game against Clemson ever. The only victory SU has over the Tigers came in the Gator Bowl on New Year‚Äôs Day in 1996 when the Orange walked away with a 41-0 W in Jacksonville,…
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Does Clemson have any weaknesses?
It’s no secret that just about everyone on the Orange roster is going to have to play the game of his life Saturday if Syracuse is going to beat Clemson in the Carrier Dome. The Tigers are bigger, faster, and the reigning national champs. SU has to be on its A-game, but Clemson will probably…
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Notable Names Not Returning To The ACC Next Year
Next season, Syracuse will be down three of its top four scorers from last year. However, the Orange is not alone in the ACC in terms of key absences come 2017. Here are the most notable departures for each team in the conference for next season. (Note: Some of these players have not declared for…
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Is This the Start of the Most Shocking Turnaround in Syracuse History?
They did it again. The Cardiac Orange pulled another rabbit out of the hat, this time on a last-second buzzer beater by Tyus Battle that took a two-point loss on the road and turned it into a one-point win over Clemson. Syracuse has now pulled the trick so many times in the last two weeks,…
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A Court of Orange: The Key to Taming the Tigers
Following a week that included the first road win on the season, two upset victories against ranked opponents, two court storms and Jim Boeheim‚Äôs unofficial 1000th win for Syracuse, the Orange resumes play on the hardwood tonight against Clemson. The Tigers are coming off a blowout 109-61 loss to Florida State, leaving Clemson scrambling to…
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How Is the ACC Faring in Nonconference Play?
Jim Boeheim has provided several memorable quotes during his four-plus-decade tenure as head coach of the Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball team (‚Äúdumb question,‚Äù most recently), but none quite as famous as one from the late Dennis Green: ‚ÄúThey are who we thought they were!‚Äù The football coach was referring to the 2006 Chicago Bears, who had…
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No. 2 Clemson Steamrolls Syracuse, 54-0
Before Syracuse football‚Äôs showdown with No. 2 Clemson on Saturday, Orange Nation had several legitimate reasons to believe its team could hang with the Tigers. Clemson entered the contest as four-touchdown favorites, but SU had won its past two games (including a 31-17 victory over 17th-ranked Virginia Tech, the program‚Äôs first win over a ranked…
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Syracuse Fights and Claws In A Losing Effort To Clemson, Will It Be Enough For Shafer?
SU showed promise, but couldn’t get the win.
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2015 Schedule Release Offers Tough Stretch for Orange
The 2015 schedule is highlighted by a visit from SEC power, LSU.
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Syracuse’s Offense Stalls, Orange Loses to Tigers
Sometimes in sports records mean nothing and today in Clemson was just one of those days.¬† Syracuse was undefeated in conference play as they took on the 1-3 Clemson Tigers.¬† Today, Syracuse just didn‚Äôt have it and the Tigers came to play. Clemson defeated Syracuse 66-53 as the Orange falls to 13-5 overall and 4-1…
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Orange Begins Slow Climb Back to Relevancy in Loaded ACC
Competing for recruits against powers like Clemson, Florida State and Georgia Tech makes for a difficult climb.
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