Tag: Syracuse Orange football
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Syair Torrence Decommitting Looks Awful for Syracuse
After a 2023 recruiting class that ranked dead last in the ACC and 84th in the country, Syracuse’s 2024 class took a blow. Syair Torrence, a three star receiver out of Christian Brothers Academy in Syracuse, has decommitted. Syair is the brother of Symir Torrence, who announced he is transferring to Binhgmaton to play his…
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The Bills and Orange Started High But Ended Low
September and October were the best of times along I-90. Syracuse began with four wins to open up the season, knocking around Louisville and UConn, then surviving Purdue and Virginia. Sure, some of it felt fluky, but Orange fans weren’t going to apologize for winning games after all the losing in recent years. What will…
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Syracuse Football’s National Signing Day Game Changers
This might have been the most eventful national signing day under Dino Babers mainly because of the shifts in SU’s program over the last couple weeks. Not only have recruits been flipping their commitments left and right, former Cuse defensive coordinator Tony White has successfully steered a couple Orange commits to his new program in…
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Syracuse Football’s Losses and Gains Begin
It was a forgone conclusion that a bevy of transfer portal news would spring after Robert Anae and Tony White left Syracuse last week. Well, a domino on both sides just fell. SU landed Nebraska transfer Jaeden Gould earlier today, adding its third transfer to next year’s squad. The timing was just right on the…
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Syracuse Can’t Afford the Big Time After Tony White’s Departure
Dino Babers is the coach, but Tony White was the reason Syracuse took its massive step forward this season. His departure for Nebraska hurts a lot. White’s defense immediately improved when he arrived, and that side of the football is what kept SU in so many games this year. After a 7-5 season, how many…
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Could Syracuse’s Five Game Losing Streak Cost Them Recruits?
There hasn’t been much movement in Syracuse Football recruiting. Not to be that guy, but the only movement has been downward. The Orange have slowly skidded down the national recruiting rankings list for the class of 2023 as the regular season has played out. As of right now, SU is slotted at the 90th spot…
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Harsh Twitter Reaction After Syracuse Is Handed Third-Straight Loss By Pitt
After the good vibes following a 6-0 start, the Syracuse season has come to a screeching halt. Three straight losses, all by different measures, has the Orange wondering if there will even be another victory this season. At 6-3, there’s still three more chances to up the win total and separate this season from just…
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Syracuse’s Defense Was Let Down By The Collapse Around It
College football fans and media around the country will wake up today and see 38 points hung by Notre Dame at the Dome. They’ll assume Syracuse is getting exposed for the shaky 16th-ranked team that it is. They’ll figure the first six weeks of the season were luck, and now the reality is setting in.…
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Eads’ Keys: #16 Syracuse vs. Notre Dame
SU hopes to rebound after suffering its first blemish of the season against #5 Clemson last weekend. Unfortunately, the bounce back game comes against a perennial above average-ish team in Notre Dame. The Fighting Irish have definitely free fallen since an embarrassing loss to open the year at Ohio State. However, top to bottom this…
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Syracuse Desperately Needs a WR2
Following Syracuse’s first loss of the season to Clemson Saturday, Garrett Shrader said, “I’d like one other guy to step up in that receiver room, just to help out. Spread things out a little bit.” You can say that again, Garrett. Oronde Gadsden has been SU’s clear number one option in the pass game since…
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National Outlet Claims Syracuse “Wasted a Once-In-A-Lifetime Opportunity”
Syracuse took #5 Clemson down to the wire, but not every one believes it was a moral victory or validation for questions surrounding the 6-0 start. CBS Sports writer Shehan Jeyarajah lamented the chance SU let slip away. He chose to make Syracuse one of his losers in the Week 8: Winners & Losers column:…
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How Has Syracuse Fared Against Top 10 Teams Under Babers?
There’s a good case to be made that Syracuse’s game against Clemson on Saturday is SU’s biggest since Dino Babers took over in 2016. The 6-0 14th ranked Orange and the 7-0 5th ranked Tigers are the only undefeated teams in the ACC Atlantic division. However, it doesn’t seem like Syracuse is being given much…
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Pack Your Bags for El Paso, Syracuse is Going to the Sun Bowl: CBS Sports
Syracuse is off to its best start in decades, and a massive matchup with #5 Clemson looms next. But it’s time to reap some of the spoils of the Orange 6-0 start. The school is printing up “bowl eligible t-shirts,” which is pretty hysterical. But it’s proof of just how dark days had gotten that…
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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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How Has Syracuse Fared as an ACC Favorite Under Babers?
Syracuse is back from the bye week, and now the season really gets going. The number 18 Orange begin a stretch of six straight games against teams who either are or have been ranked this season with a matchup against number 15 NC State Saturday. SU‚Äôs 5-0 start has caught the attention of oddsmakers. Syracuse…
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Re-Visiting our Most Important Players List
We’re about halfway through Syracuse Football’s 2022 season. SU has shocked pretty much everybody with an impressive 5-0 start. Although the road may have been rocky with come from behind wins against Purdue and Virginia, the record is what it is! The team as a whole is experiencing a lot of success and a big…
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Which Players Need to Step Up Moving Forward?
The calendar month has turned to October and Syracuse Football is STILL undefeated. SU hasn’t accomplished this feat since 1993. This season has already been a massive success and one that the team and fans should be very proud of. With that said, “you can’t come this far just to come this far.” Yeah, the…
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Syracuse’s Unnecessary Risk Against Wagner
Syracuse beat Wagner 59-0 in what can only loosely be called a football game Saturday. The Seahawks went in not having won a game in three calendar years, and it showed, converting only four first downs and gaining 50 yards of total offense. It was such a mismatch that the two teams agreed to play…
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Does a Top 25 Ranking Prove Babers Have the Right Formula?
Somehow, someway, Syracuse is ranked. At 5-0, the Orange are ranked #21 in the Coach’s Poll and #22 in the AP. Coming into the year five wins would’ve been a likely season total, and many wondered whether the Dino Babers experiment was flickering at the end. Instead, the Orange have a Cinderella season, great vibes,…
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How good of a hire has Robert Anae been?
The Robert Anae hype train was off and running after the first two games of Syracuse‚Äôs season. Blowout wins over Louisville and UConn saw Garrett Shrader become a Pro Football Focus darling after performances of 18/25 236 yards two touchdowns and no interceptions against the Cardinals and 20/23 292 yards three touchdowns and no picks…
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Syracuse’s Hopes for College Gameday are Now Gone
The exhilarating start to the season has stirred dreams of ESPN’s College Gameday making its first ever appearance at Syracuse. The Orange have come close to hosting of the sport’s most visible and popular show, but it’s never quite come to fruition. The 4-0 record combined with a gimme win over Wagner this weekend will…
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Have Syracuse football fans bought into SU’s 4-0 start?
Syracuse is off to its first 4-0 start since 2018, and with Wagner, who hasn‚Äôt won a game since 2019, visiting the Dome Saturday, odds are SU is about to be 5-0 for the first time since 1987. Those seasons both ended with double digit wins, so for this team to be in the same…
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Is This the Beginning of a Magical Syracuse Season?
Another week, another Syracuse win. Another win, another thriller. The Orange are 4-0, and fans are starting to wonder just how far SU can go. By virtue of the win over Virginia on Friday night, SU is almost guaranteed to still be undefeated by mid-October. Next up is Wagner, a game the Orange simply can’t…
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Is Syracuse Getting Disrespected For Its Win Over Purdue?
Garrett Shrader threw the pass. Oronde Gadsden caught the pass and got a foot in bounds. Syracuse showed resiliency throughout the afternoon. The Orange counterpunched every time they trailed in the fourth quarter, and the offense has been a breath of fresh air compared to recent years. So why does it seem some observers still…
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Why Garrett Shrader’s success could change SU football
Don’t look now but Pro Football Focus’ team graded Garrett Shrader as the highest rated QB of the week after the beat down of UConn. He was PFF’s offensive player of the week for his 5 TD day. They noted his 94.5 overall grade because of a perfect 16/16 when there was no pressure, and…
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Is Dino Babers Already Off the Hot Seat?
It’s been a fun start to the season for Syracuse. A surprising demolition of Louisville at the Dome, and a (suddenly) predictable blowout of pathetic UConn makes the Orange 2-0. SU will garner even more votes for the Top 25, and will find itself with optimism and some shock around the nation that the program…
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Top 10 NFL Players Who Played For Syracuse
Syracuse has a history of producing incredible football players. Syracuse can claim one of the best alumni classes in NFL history with multiple players in Canton. Whether you are into NFL betting or you‚Äôre a big college or NFL fan, you are sure to have heard a few of these names. Here are ten of…
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Should Syracuse Stop the Charade and Run the Option?
Central New York’s worst kept secret is that the Syracuse offense is ugly. When SU needed one win in its final three games to become bowl eligible it scored a total of 34 points in a string of blowout losses. This is a massive concern because the head coach supposedly is a top-level offensive mind,…
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Is Syracuse Too Cheap to Fire Babers?
The short answer is yes. Look around and you see examples of how Syracuse athletics needs to constantly shop on the discount racks. “Jim Boeheim makes a plea to Syracuse fans to step up their NIL donation game” is a headline that blared at the Post-Standard’s website last week. Obviously, legendary coaches at larger, more…
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Bad News for Syracuse, Big Ten is Not Considering the Orange
The conference realignment murmurs have grown into flat out paranoia (“a mass exodus”) in many circles, as programs wonder what their future is. At stake, a spot with the “have’s” at the college football table, a place where dishes are passed around with $75M checks under them. Syracuse’s ACC revenue is significant, and many could…
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One CFB Analyst Predicts “Mass Exodus” from ACC in Realignment
It’s been nearly a month since the dominos fell with USC and UCLA headed to the Big Ten. Since, everyone has braced for the next set of schools to fall. Is it Oregon and Washington? Will the Big 12 and Pac-12 eventually merge (right now the answer is no)? So far, it’s been quiet. And…
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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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Syracuse Football’s Early 2022 Outlook
The Orange will look to improve upon a disappointing 2021 campaign in which they finished with three consecutive losses to end with an underwhelming 5-7 record. But to be fair, they faced stiff competition down the stretch and had the unenviable task of lining up against three ranked opponents in Wake Forest, NC State, and…
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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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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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Will Tommy DeVito’s Transfer Hurt Syracuse Recruiting?
February 1, 2017 was supposed to be a turning point in Syracuse football history. Dino Babers had just wrapped up his first season and gone 4-8 with Scott Shafer’s roster. Babers had immediately injected energy into the program, like gulping down a 5-Hour Energy. He was far more quotable than the buttoned-down Shafer, and instead…
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