Published on: 22nd November, 2009
As any self-respecting Orange fan with a sense of his team’s history will tell you, Rutgers is not Syracuse’s rival. Regardless of what a small handful of media members or Rutgers fans say, the Scarlet Knights are still considered to be beneath Syracuse by most Orange fans. Call it arrogance, delusion, ...Published on: 15th November, 2009
The national title picture, as is typical within the BCS system, looks like it’s heading for yet another controversial finish. A mere two weeks remain in college football’s regular season, and the six teams that sit atop the BCS poll all remain undefeated with 10-0 records. Only one of two of ...Published on: 12th November, 2009
When your average college football fan talks about the top coaches in college football right now, a lot of names are likely to pop up. Urban Meyer, Nick Saban, Jim Tressel, and Brian Kelly are just a few that frequently get mentioned in that discussion. However, one of the true masters ...Published on: 8th November, 2009
It was another wild weekend in college football, with plenty of upsets, scares, and a few changes near the top of the poll. The most noteworthy shift in the Week 11 poll is Alabama’s reclamation of the No. 2 spot after they were passed by Texas just last week. The Longhorns ...Published on: 2nd November, 2009
Syracuse fans have had to deal with a lot of pain and disappointment the last half-decade or so. The almost weekly tallies to the loss column during the last five seasons are what everyone knows about. The Orange became a laughing stock of the media and all of college football under ...Published on: 1st November, 2009
It was an upset filled Halloween weekend in college football that must have left a number of last week’s top 25 member’s spooked at their new positions in or out of the BCS poll. Six of last week’s top 25 found themselves on the losing end of their week ten matchups, ...Published on: 28th October, 2009
It’s been nearly five years since the Orange of Syracuse last competed in a postseason football game, although it's felt like a lot longer. It was only 2004 when the Orange were the victims of a vicious 51-14 beating at the hands of Georgia Tech in the Champs Sports Bowl, and ...Published on: 27th October, 2009
2008 may have been the most successful year in the history of Cincinnati football, but to almost everyone’s surprise the Bearcats look like they could possibly be heading for even greater success in 2009. Undefeated at 7-0 and ranked eighth in this week’s BCS poll, the Bearcats roll into the ...Published on: 25th October, 2009
The quagmire that is the Bowl Championship Series’ rankings hit for the first time in the 2009 season last weekend, and in the second week of the infamous poll there is already some serious change, and a couple teams must be scratching their heads. In a week with few upsets, there ...Published on: 17th October, 2009
Have Syracuse fans forgotten how to conduct themselves at a football game? It certainly seems so. Already this year, a collection of Orange bloggers were forced to rebuke the Syracuse fan base for their inappropriate use of the wave . Perhaps they should be excused though. After all, the majority of them ...