Syracuse has a lot to lose/nothing to gain

[K-Roo]

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Syracuse at Akron, Sept. 4: MAC teams are hosting just three Big Six opponents this season and all three games are on this list (the others are Arizona-Toledo and Connecticut-Temple, which we will discuss in a minute). This will be the first game for new Zips coach Rob Ianello, who had been an assistant at Notre Dame for the past five seasons. Akron is expected to be a MAC bottom-feeder, which means a Big East team should beat the Zips. But how good is Syracuse going to be? The Orange are breaking in a new quarterback and hoping their secondary plays a lot better than it did last season. Syracuse is just the third Big Six school to play at Akron since the Zips moved to Division I-A (now known as FBS) in 1987.

[johnnyzip84]

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Syracuse at Akron, Sept. 4: MAC teams are hosting just three Big Six opponents this season and all three games are on this list (the others are Arizona-Toledo and Connecticut-Temple, which we will discuss in a minute). This will be the first game for new Zips coach Rob Ianello, who had been an assistant at Notre Dame for the past five seasons. Akron is expected to be a MAC bottom-feeder, which means a Big East team should beat the Zips. But how good is Syracuse going to be? The Orange are breaking in a new quarterback and hoping their secondary plays a lot better than it did last season. Syracuse is just the third Big Six school to play at Akron since the Zips moved to Division I-A (now known as FBS) in 1987.

Of course, this fails to give us credit for either time UC visited Akron (assuming they're remembering the 1996 Va Tech game).

[K-Roo]

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Syracuse at Akron, Sept. 4: MAC teams are hosting just three Big Six opponents this season and all three games are on this list (the others are Arizona-Toledo and Connecticut-Temple, which we will discuss in a minute). This will be the first game for new Zips coach Rob Ianello, who had been an assistant at Notre Dame for the past five seasons. Akron is expected to be a MAC bottom-feeder, which means a Big East team should beat the Zips. But how good is Syracuse going to be? The Orange are breaking in a new quarterback and hoping their secondary plays a lot better than it did last season. Syracuse is just the third Big Six school to play at Akron since the Zips moved to Division I-A (now known as FBS) in 1987.

Of course, this fails to give us credit for either time UC visited Akron (assuming they're remembering the 1996 Va Tech game).

Va Tech

UC

Indiana

UConn -- were they Big East yet?

[johnnyzip84]

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Syracuse at Akron, Sept. 4: MAC teams are hosting just three Big Six opponents this season and all three games are on this list (the others are Arizona-Toledo and Connecticut-Temple, which we will discuss in a minute). This will be the first game for new Zips coach Rob Ianello, who had been an assistant at Notre Dame for the past five seasons. Akron is expected to be a MAC bottom-feeder, which means a Big East team should beat the Zips. But how good is Syracuse going to be? The Orange are breaking in a new quarterback and hoping their secondary plays a lot better than it did last season. Syracuse is just the third Big Six school to play at Akron since the Zips moved to Division I-A (now known as FBS) in 1987.

Of course, this fails to give us credit for either time UC visited Akron (assuming they're remembering the 1996 Va Tech game).

Va Tech

UC

Indiana

UConn -- were they Big East yet?

I'm pretty sure UConn wasn't a Big East football member when they visited the Rubber Bowl. So if the criteria is based on what conference the school was a member of at the time of the visit to Akron, I guess I have to take away the 1st UC visit. But still, UC was clearly a Big East member in 2008, so Syracuse will be the FOURTH BCS-conference team to visit Akron (after the first three you list above).

[meatwad]

Va Tech

UC

Indiana

UConn -- were they Big East yet?

I'm pretty sure UConn wasn't a Big East football member when they visited the Rubber Bowl. So if the criteria is based on what conference the school was a member of at the time of the visit to Akron, I guess I have to take away the 1st UC visit. But still, UC was clearly a Big East member in 2008, so Syracuse will be the FOURTH BCS-conference team to visit Akron (after the first three you list above).

UConn was not BE yet... I think it was two years later. Indiana has never been in the Big East.

[skip-zip]

K-Roo....the title of this thread says it all. In fact, Syracuse has had a lot to lose EVERY time they've played us. They are in the Big East, and we are one of the worst teams in the 2nd worst conference in 1-A. It's pretty much been that way all of the 3 seasons we've played them, and I'm sure they were thoroughly embarrassed when we won in Syracuse 2 years ago. I'm just hoping they aren't quite yet on that road to prominence again, as some of the information about them might indicate.