The Gate has a slight lead over Syracuse beacuse they have been playing football against one another since 1891. During the early days before they had FCS. Colgate had Syracuse's number. No matter how good SU was they could not beat Colgate. It was one of the feirecest riverlys in college football in the northeast. There are even acconts of a newspaper reporter from Hamilton(where Colgate is located) running on the field to tackle an Orange player saving a touchdown and the game for the Red Raiders. Colgate would beat Syracuse so much that they began to say that Colgate had some kind of magic when they played SU and they called it "The Hoodo" Whenever Colgate fans chanted this the SU fans would respond "We Do" in fact there even a story that when they where buliding Archbold stadim some Colgate fan snuck in and put a marron Colgate sweater in the cement and thats how the Hoodoo was started. In the 70 year span Syracuse has won 26 of 62 games with 5 ties.
