Tag: Football
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UCLA and USC Just Signaled the Death of the Power Five
While college athletics has been a mutating industry since its dawn (Alabama was once in the SoCon), our current iteration is now dead. The concept of a Power 5 is no longer after USC and UCLA’s decision to flee to the Big Ten. Perhaps that’s for the best since the idea of enough elite football…
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Did Syracuse Strategically Ask For Florida State as a Rival?
The ACC did something extremely smart. It ripped up the old two division format, and created a 3-5-5 scheduling system for football. Instead of a winner coming from the Atlantic and Coastal to meet in the ACC Championship Game, the two best teams in the league will clash. To schedule a one-division league, each team…
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New Syracuse QB Del Rio-Wilson Called “First Class” By SEC Coach
Quarterback has been a source of angst for SU fans for years. As the Orange have struggled to get their footing for the last three years, the play under center has been the biggest inconsistency. Garrett Shrader showed promise at times last season, but the transfer of Carlos Del Rio-Wilson certainly makes things more interesting.…
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Bryce Young Ready for Revenge Following Alabama’s Championship Game Loss
Bryce Young strode into the media suite of Alabama‚Äôs Naylor Stone on Monday and wasted no time saying hello to local reporters present. He said, reacting to the fact that reporters are now permitted to take part in live interviews ‚ÄúI missed you guys, man. It‚Äôs so much more personal now,‚Äù how is everyone? Is…
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Why New WR Coach Michael Johnson Is a Key Addition for SU
Tuesday morning CFB Insider Pete Thamel tweeted Syracuse had added FAU’s Michael Johnson to its coaching staff. Even though some may overlook the importance of a positional coach, Orange fans should pay attention to this. Johnson has experience as a hungry recruiter at bigger programs, and as an offensive coordinator in the NFL. This is…
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Will Syracuse Ever Dig Out of the Recruiting Basement with Babers?
Syracuse announced Dino Babers is staying as coach for another year, and the news wasn’t all that surprising. Despite the depressing three-game skid to end the season, the Orange being 5-4 seemed to lock in Babers for ’22. The improvement from last season was obvious, and with a few minor strokes of luck the Orange…
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Blowout Babers: Why Does Dino Get Routed So Often?
It was all ugly on Saturday for Syracuse. The Orange need just a single win over the last three weeks of the season, but the best chance perhaps to get a victory went up in smoke at Louisville 41-3. Malik Cunningham was a knife cutting through a solid SU defense, combining for 5 TDs on…
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Syracuse projected to inaugural Fenway Bowl vs. UCF
At 5-4, Syracuse’s season has been a thousand times better than most could have imagined. Coming off the disastrous 1-win campaign last year, not much was expected of this year’s squad. Yet, with three games to go, the Orange are one win away from a likely bowl game. None of the three games will be…
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Can Syracuse Survive These Heartbreaking Losses?
There’s not many gimmes on the Syracuse schedule. Two weeks ago fans could dream of a bowl game. At 3-1 the work had been done in the non-conference season, a foundation had been built. Today, it’s a little bleaker. The Orange have lost a pair of three-point games, at Florida State and home to Wake…
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Crap, Schiano and Rutgers May Have Already Passed Syracuse
Saturday was ugly for a lot of reasons, but perhaps the most damning had nothing to do with the standings. Syracuse’s offense was stagnant. Rutgers moved the ball enough and got a road victory. But the rebuild by Greg Schiano may have already surpassed the Syracuse program, buzzing by in the left lane. The program…
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Why This Was the Perfect Weekend for Syracuse Football
If you read any preseason preview or listened to any college football analyst, Syracuse was destined for a lost campaign. The talent wasn’t any good. The coaching was terrible. The outlook was bleak. After Saturday’s win over Ohio, things aren’t nearly as bad as most thought. In fact, all around that was essentially the best…
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Syracuse Runs Through Ohio 29-9 in Season Opener
Syracuse felt the weight of expectations coming in. Starting the week as an underdog, with the fans wanting to know who would start at quarterback, the pressure was on Dino Babers and company to perform on the road. The Orange answered. Although it wasn’t the prettiest of performances, there were plenty of positives. Let’s work…
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Syracuse Football ’21: The Good, the Bad, and the Fixable
Kickoff of the season is just over a week away, and Syracuse fans don’t know quite how to feel. Last year’s one-win campaign dampened enthusiasm for the program overall, and pundits are predicting another difficult season ahead. But a new year always brings optimism, and it’s virtually impossible to have a season as poor as…
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Could Syracuse End Up Using Both Its QBs?
On Sunday, Syracuse football was tabbed as a road underdog in its opener against the Mid-American Conference Ohio Bobcats, and it’s the latest prediction not to take Syracuse seriously. Part of the doubt and uncertainty around the team‚Äôs progress stems from the quarterback position. Any Syracuse fan paying even slight attention to the team knows…
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The Key to a “Successful” Season for Syracuse Football
Today marks the beginning of fall camp for Dino Babers and Syracuse. That also means press conferences! Every week, we’ll get to hear SU’s sixth-year head coach wax poetic about quarterback play and Disney movies. Here’s his opening presser, by way of SU athletics. The first question, asked by Brent Axe, is a very open-ended…
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Thank Goodness Syracuse Left for the ACC as Texas/Oklahoma Shake NCAA Again
Leaving the Big East sucked. We all wax nostalgic about the best basketball tournament ever created, the Old Big East, a week of mayhem and madness in Manhattan. The new B.E.T. has lost a lot of the juice. Creighton and Butler just can’t replace Syracuse, Pitt and Notre Dame. And while the new ACC alignment…
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Top 100 Linebacker DeAunte Hunter Calls Visit to Syracuse “Amazing”
DeAunte Hunter is being recruited by a school that played in the Peach Bowl, is a preseason Top 10 squad, and a trendy pick to crash the CFB Playoff. But it was his trip to Syracuse this weekend that the 3-star linebacker called “amazing.” The 6’4″, 200 lb. standout from Georgia is a top 100…
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Could a Blast From The Past Help the SU Offense?
To pass the time during what has been a very long SU football offseason, Syracuse fans have often wondered aloud about how to help the Orange offense. To be sure, last year’s Orange O struggled dearly on Dino Babers’ watch, finishing last in the ACC in points scored and total yards. Here at Fizz, we’ve…
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Athlon’s ACC Preview Isn’t Confident in Syracuse
Depending on who you ask, this has either been a very tough or a pretty optimistic offseason for Syracuse football. Coming off a 1-10 season, head coach Dino Babers and his staff remain intact for another go at things this Fall. Here at Fizz, predictions for the year have ranged from negative to cautiously hopeful,…
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What Else Did the Opposing Coach Say About Syracuse in Athlon’s Preview?
Saturday, The Fizz published damning comments from an opposing coach concerning the state of Syracuse football. The quotes were from an anonymous opposing staff in Athlon’s annual college football preview guide. The coach took shots at SU’s scheme, their recruiting approach, and believes the program is on the verge of wreckage. (Note to opposing coach:…
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Anonymous Opposing Coach Trashes Syracuse Football in Athlon Preview
(Update: Here’s Sunday’s post with more from the following anonymous coach who ripped into SU. He criticizes the offensive line and says the 10-win season was a mirage.) If you’re a Syracuse fan and are looking forward to the time worn tradition of picking up the Athlon preview issue and thumbing through it at the…
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How Can the SU Defense Improve This Fall?
It seems like there‚Äôs two camps of Syracuse football fans when assessing last year‚Äôs 1-10 debacle. There are those who write it off as a pandemic-stricken one-off, and there are those who seek change within Dino Babers‚Äô system. We‚Äôve written ad nauseum here at the Fizz about Babers‚Äô no-huddle, no-scoring offense and what should be…
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Who Gives Syracuse a Higher Ceiling at Quarterback?
Syracuse football‚Äôs quarterback situation has been a hot topic of discussion during the entire offseason. After just six wins in the past two seasons, it‚Äôs all the more important for Dino Babers and his staff to evaluate the position correctly. Part of that evaluation process is deciding who gives Syracuse the most upside not just…
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Which SU Newcomers Will Be Most Impactful?
Syracuse football has had a rough past couple of seasons, but the youth and new faces within the program has kept things interesting and exciting even when the final results have been disappointing. For example, 2019‚Äôs emergence of wideout transfer Trishton Jackson was electrifying, and freshman Sean Tucker‚Äôs takeover of the running back spot in…
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Here’s How Many Syracuse Wins DraftKings Projects
DraftKings released its regular season win totals for every FBS team, unsurprisingly Alabama and Clemson are at the top of the list. They both are projected to have a 11.5 total, and if you like the Tide and Tigers to run the table undefeated, the over is at even money. The under is -125. Oklahoma…
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Can Sean Tucker Replicate His Success This Year?
Syracuse football‚Äôs 2020 1-10 record was the result of a bunch of different factors. Injuries, opt-outs, and weak offensive depth led to what was by far the ACC‚Äôs worst offense and overall record. Three different quarterbacks started games for SU last year, but down the stretch they were aided by the emergence of freshman running…
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Ranking the 5 TV Networks/Timeslots for Syracuse Football
This week Syracuse announced the first five timeslots and television partners of the football season. We still have the bulk of the ACC schedule to go, but let’s take a rip at this quintet of games. 5) UAlbany: Saturday, Sept. 18th, 12p. ACC Network at Carrier Dome This is by far the least intriguing setup…
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How Important is Garrett Williams to SU’s Defensive Backfield?
Syracuse football has a lot of work to do ahead of next fall. Last season‚Äôs 1-10 mark still shouldn‚Äôt sit right with anyone, but there are caveats to what was a brutal year. It‚Äôs probably hard to find a team that was more stricken by injuries and COVID opt-outs than Syracuse, and the youth the…
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Freshman Sensation Pierre-Louis “Blessed” With Syracuse Offer, Powerhouses Also Chasing
Friday afternoon Tampa Catholic’s enormous Eddy Pierre-Louis announced he had received an offer from Syracuse. Competition will be intense for the 6’4″, 305 lb. standout. Florida, Florida State and Georgia have already offered him as well. Oh, and he’s Class of ’24. Yep, all this attention and he’s only entering his sophomore year. Last month,…
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Syracuse Youth Has Reignited Fire Within the Program: CBS Sports
Chip Patterson at CBS Sports filed a piece on his ACC spring football overreactions. After last season’s nightmare, there’s nowhere to go but up. The only way to make ’20 palatable is if it paid dividends for the future. In Chip’s opinion, the losing did exactly that. “Syracuse already had a young roster last season,…
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Who Will Syracuse Start At Quarterback?
Ever since the departure of Ryan Nassib and Eric Dungey, the question surrounding SU football revolves around the QB position . The answer just got a lot harder with the additions of Mississippi State transfer Garrett Shrader and freshman Justin Lamson. Along with these two, the quarterback room still consists of Devito, and sophomores JaCobian…
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Lee Kpogba Remains on Syracuse Roster After Off-Season Issues
Syracuse Football officially released its 2021 roster today, complete with all returning players and incoming freshman. It’s great to finally see guys like Garrett Shrader, Justin Lamson and Duce Chestnut locked in place as members of the Orange. However, there was one player from 2020 who fans might not have expected to spy on this…
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Fizz Radio 1/28: The Virginia Meltdown, 2021 Football Schedule, NC State Preview with Steven Muma
On this week’s Fizz Radio, Ian Unsworth and Gill Gross break down SU’s 81-58 loss to Virginia, take an early stab at the 2021 SU football schedule, and preview NC State with Steven Muma of Backing the Pack. You can listen to Fizz Radio on the Score 1260 in Syracuse from 9 a.m. to 10…
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Syracuse Football 2021 Schedule: Best to Worst
The Syracuse football schedule for 2021 is out. The Orange are pretty fortunate to avoid North Carolina and Miami in the conference, but a couple non-conference games are going to be harder than expected at the time of scheduling. Here’s SU’s 2021 schedule, power ranked. 1. vs. Clemson 2020 record: 10-2 Syracuse will no longer…
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The Evidence is Clear (Again): Americans Love Football
In June the final ratings were tallied for the ’19/’20 television season. Unsurprisingly, football once again dominated. Sunday Night Football on NBC was the highest-rated show on TV, clocking in at a 20.1 average rating. For comparison, NCIS on CBS was next at 15.3. Almost five ratings points separated Sunday Night Football from the next…
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National Signing Day Has Come and Gone: Now Let’s Talk Some Takeaways
This year’s National Signing Day is officially in the rearview, and Syracuse has a plethora of new signees to show for it. A total of 19 prospects, from the Class of 2021, put pen to paper this week, solidifying the next stop on each of their respective football journeys ‚Äì the 315.¬† Fresh off a…
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