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Oronde Gadsden is a Charger
After a long wait, the Orange finally had a star selected in the NFL Draft. Tight end Oronde Gadsden is a Los Angeles Charger after being picked in the fifth round with the 165th pick. The wait for an Orange player to be selected was a little longer than many people expected, but at the…
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Oronde Gadsden II officially wraps up his time with SU
Well, it’s official. After four seasons with the Orange, the OG era is over. Yesterday, Oronde Gadsden II officially announced he’s declaring for the NFL draft. It was a move widely speculated after another dominant season from the tight end. Gadsden finished the year with over 900 yards receiving, putting a bow on top of…
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What Went Wrong for Syracuse Against Boston College
Syracuse fell 37-31 to Boston College on Saturday, dropping them to 6-3 this season after the Orange took care of business in a 38-31 overtime win against Virginia Tech last week. On paper, Syracuse’s run game was likely going to be the difference maker against the Eagles. However, it wasn’t the difference that the Orange…
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Takeaways from Syracuse’s Win Over Virginia Tech
It wasn’t pretty, but Syracuse pulled out a tight 38-31 win in overtime to top Virginia Tech on Sunday. The Orange offense struggled in the first half and went into halftime down 14-3, but it rode running back LeQuint Allen Jr. and a strong performance from the defense to earn its sixth win of the…
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Syracuse Bounce-Back Candidates Against UNLV
Ahead of Syracuse’s Saturday night matchup against UNLV, the team’s first away game of the season, a few players are looking to bounce back after a rough showing in the team’s last game against Holy Cross. UNLV will be the second game against a ranked opponent for the Orange this season after recording a win…
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Syracuse Underwhelms in Win Over Holy Cross
It’s not often that a team will rack up 541 yards of total offense and look underwhelming, but that’s exactly what happened in Syracuse’s 42-14 win over Holy Cross. After offensive miscues plagued the Orange as they suffered their first loss of the season to Stanford last week, those issues were still present, even if…
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Three Syracuse Offensive Players to Watch for Against Stanford
Heading into Friday night’s matchup against Stanford, Syracuse has to feel good about its season so far. Quarterback Kyle McCord has been as advertised for the Orange, tossing for 8 touchdown passes and 735 yards through the first two games. McCord’s efficiency has the Syracuse offense ranked at the top of the nation in multiple…
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Oronde Gadsden II Continues To Prove He Is The Best Tight End In The Country
It’s no secret that Kyle McCord has a plethora of options to throw the ball to when he drops back in the pocket. In Saturday’s 31-28 win over #23 Georgia Tech, McCord established himself as one of the best quarterbacks in the nation with another career-high performance. Alongside him though is who I believe to…
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How Spread Out Can McCord’s Offense Realistically Be?
Week one for Syracuse football saw a 38-22 victory over the Ohio Bobcats. While there’s so much to take away from this one, the main storyline going in was the play of new QB Kyle McCord. The Ohio State transfer was as good as advertised, throwing for 354 yards and four touchdowns, both career highs.…
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Health Is Biggest Storyline In Training Camp Thus Far
There are many things that both fans and teams look forward to once training camp. Usually, you want to see units finding their footing and looking primed for big things. This training camp though for Fran Brown, the biggest storyline for the Orange has been their health. The majority of the time when health is…
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Which Syracuse Pass Catchers Will Be Left Out?
There are a lot of players that Syracuse fans want to see succeed this year, particularly on offense. Two big names are coming back from season-long injuries, there are several transfers and freshman coming in, plus the normal returning talent. Here’s the thing: not everyone will succeed this year. It just isn’t possible. Why can’t…
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Oronde Gadsen and Marlow Wax represent SU on preseason All-ACC list
A few months from now, preseason awards will mean absolutely nothing. But as the wait for college football slowly ticks on, they sure are fun to look at and overreact to in August. Syracuse, for the most part, has gotten the expected tough love from the media. Slightly higher expectations than 2023 with a new…
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Syracuse Football’s Strength In Numbers As A Team
You know, sometimes you’re just scrolling Twitter (or X, whichever you prefer) and a post will catch your eye that you would never think about. Well, this tweet from College Football Report about returning roster players for college football programs really had me thinking, how important is strength in returning numbers? As you can see,…
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Oronde Gadsden II Ranked Top 100 In EA Sports College Football 25
College Football 25 is set to release this week, and I think I speak for everyone when I say this game has been long-awaited. Footage of gameplay has started to be released and college football fans have been nothing but impressed. In anticipation of the full release on July 19th, EA Sports released the top…
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Gadsden Posed For Bounce-Back Season
Syracuse is gearing up for the first year of the Fran Brown era as head coach. With that comes the return of wide receiver Oronde Gadsden II, who is back after a season-ending injury. Gadsden went down on the first play in the second game of last season with a Lisfranc injury. This was a…
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Syracuse Tight End Unit Ranked Top-Five Nationally
Historically, Syracuse football is a program known for its running backs. Jim Brown and Ernie Davis are legends, while Sean Tucker has had the biggest profile in recent years. In the past decade, SU has become more known for punters, sending plenty of talent to the NFL. That list includes players like Sterling Hofrichter, Riley…
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Oronde Gadsden Injury Updates
If we are going to see a lot of that this season, then Syracuse has to be as careful as it can be with Oronde Gadsden heading into 2024. It took just one game plus an extra few minutes or so before Gadsden’s 2023 campaign came to a sudden end. Lisfranc injuries are no joke,…
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How Syracuse is Preparing for Army with Its Injury Issues
Syracuse football is off to another hot start in 2023, very similar to 2022, but that isn’t without losing a couple of its most important players for the season, just like it did last year in September. The Orange are down star pass catcher Oronode Gadsden II, who suffered a serious foot injury against Western…
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Fizz Report Card: Syracuse Gets it Done Against Purdue, 35-20
Dino Babers has the biggest road victory of his career as the head coach of Syracuse. Winning away from home has been a huge struggle for the Orange, and to get it done against a Big Ten team is a massive accomplishment, especially with the news that Oronde Gadsden II would be out for the…
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Is Syracuse Ready to Win This Kind of Game?
When Syracuse’s schedule was finalized in the offseason, the Purdue game always stood out as one that would be the season’s first challenge after the Orange opened the season with contests against Colgate and Western Michigan, which they won convincingly. In last year’s matchup, SU staged a dramatic comeback to beat the Boilermakers 32-29 in…
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Top Three Storylines To Watch For, Syracuse vs. Western Michigan
Despite SU beating Colgate 65-0 to open the season, there were still plenty of reasons to pay attention to the blowout. Headed into Syracuse vs. Western Michigan, here are the top three storylines for SU fans. 1. Oronde Gadsden’s Health Oronde Gadsden’s status is something of a mystery right now. The tight end was seen…
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Fizz Five 8/25: Conference Realignment, Donnie Freeman’s Transfer, and Dino’s Future
With both the school year and football season around the corner, Liam Griffin and Ethan Frank connect to discuss the biggest preseason headlines and give a hoops recruiting update. 1. Conference Realignment (1:18-7:23)2. Gadsden’s Accolades and The Rest of the Receivers (7:23-13:14)3. Donnie Freeman Transferring to IMG (13:14-18:41)4. Dino Babers’ Future (18:41-24:30)5. Training Camp Observations…
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Polling The Fizz: 2023 Syracuse Football Offensive Predictions
Two weeks separate us from Syracuse v. Colgate, and with that we continue our Polling The Fizz series to get you ready. Last week, we took a look at what the ACC as a whole will look like, today we’ll start to dive deeper into this year’s Orange squad. We start today with the offensive…
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Five Syracuse Football Players Named to Award Watch Lists
It’s that time of year again. Training camps are underway, predictions are being made, and players are being named to award watch lists. For Syracuse football, five players made the cut. Garrett Shrader Garrett Shrader actually made two watch lists. The first is for the Davey O’Brien Award, which is handed out to the best…
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Fizz Five 8/4: Buddy Boeheim Signs a Deal, Syracuse Hoops is Running, and Everything ACC Football
With football season quickly approaching, Adam Gotkin and Tyler Aitken sat down to discuss the biggest SU storylines of the summer, on the gridiron and beyond. 1. Buddy Boeheim Resigns With Pistons 1:31-6:522. Syracuse Men’s Basketball is Moving Faster 6:54-14:573. Oronde Gadsden II Named to All-ACC Preseason Team 14:59-21:034. Where Does SU Football Fit Into…
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Oronde Gadsden Named to All-ACC Preseason Team
In 2022, Syracuse tight end Oronde Gadsden earned a spot on the All-ACC First Team. This year, voters are confident he can post a repeat performance. On Wednesday, the ACC announced its annual media-voted All-ACC Preseason Team. Oronde Gadsden was named to the lone tight end spot on that list. The all-conference nod doesn’t come…
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What National Experts Think of Syracuse Heading into 2023
With ACC Kickoff behind us, there’s only about a month before Syracuse takes the field in its home opener on September 2nd. So, that means anyone and everyone is starting to predict how this season might play out in the conference and nationally. So, what are people saying about Syracuse? The Athletic released a mailbag…
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Takeaways From Syracuse’s ACC Kickoff Presser
On Tuesday Morning, Dino Babers, Oronde Gadsden, Garrett Shrader, and Marlowe Wax took the podium to address the local media and representatives covering other ACC schools and some national media members. A lot was said, so let’s dive right into it. Not much, if anything, was said about LeQuint Allen’s recent off-field news, but everyone…
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Five Syracuse Athletes the Class of 2023 Will Never Forget
With both the school year and several of our Fizz writers’ OrangeFizz careers coming to a close soon, it seems like an apt time to do some reflecting. Four years ago, a Fizz staffer who graduated in 2019 compiled a Top 5 list of memorable athletes during his time at the university. Four years later…
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By The Numbers: How SU Righted Its Ship Against BC, 32-23
For the third time in the last seven years, Syracuse football just ended a regular season with a victory over Boston College. This time, SU had to work deep into the fourth quarter to overcome the woeful Eagles and to end its regular season 7-5 – the program’s first winning season since 2018. Before we…
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Is Oronde Gadsden II Syracuse’s Most Important Player?
On Saturday against NC State, Syracuse may as well have only had one receiver on the field. Oronde Gadsden II was target number one, two and three for Garrett Shrader. The likes of Courtney Jackson, Damien Alford and Devaughn Cooper were practically invisible. The trio combined for three catches and 47 yards. Jackson, SU’s leading…
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Stock Up, Stock Down: Bye Week Evaluation
Throughout the first five weeks of Syracuse football, the Orange have been through many highs, and a few lows. The 5-0 record is a great accomplishment, and the high-flying SU passing offense has been the antithesis of last year’s Sterlin Gilbert slog. However, there have been nail-biting moments, head-scratchers and injuries. Not everything has been…
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“Flex-Wide” and “Football Player”: How Unique Talent Succeeds in the Robert Anae Offense
Who ever thought a 6-foot-4, 190 pound wide receiver would line up in a three point stance next to a left tackle? Watching Oronde Gadsden II as a freshman, most would’ve assumed he was the next big bodied receiver to come into Syracuse, line up near the boundary, run deep routes, and never produce. Remember…
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Stock Up, Stock Down: Purdue
What a rush. Yesterday was an absolute rollercoaster of a game for Syracuse fans. Dino Babers said as much in his postgame presser. From up 10 to down four, with 45 seconds left, the Orange pulled the contest from the jaws of defeat, complete with some of the most mindless penalties we’ll see all year…
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Instant Reaction: Syracuse Stuns Purdue 32-29
There are few words to describe what happened at the JMA Dome today. An unbelievable fourth quarter and second half on both sides. Ups and downs. Twists and turns. But, in the end, Syracuse comes out on top with a three-point win over a Big Ten team. Despite allowing over 400 yards passing, the Orange…
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Tommy DeVito Delivers in the Clutch, SU Beats Wake 36-32
An instant classic went down in the Carrier Dome last night. If you missed it you really missed out. Syracuse came from behind three different times to take down Wake Forest 36-32 in the final seconds of the game. Tommy DeVito came off the bench to relieve Garrett Shrader in the third quarter after the…
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