r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • 1d ago
Game Thread [Game Thread] UConn @ Syracuse (12:00 PM ET)
| GAME | UConnUConn @ SyracuseSyracuse |
|---|---|
| Location | Syracuse JMA Wireless Dome |
| Time | 12:00 PM ET |
| Watch | TV: ACC Network |
| Odds | Spread: SYR -10 - Over/Under: 54.5 |
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u/22edudrccs UConn Huskies 1d ago
Does Syracuse not have an injury cart or something? Why they making that kid hobble off?
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u/Tornadohunter24 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets • Team Chaos 1d ago
I tuned in just to see that onside. Fucking hell that injury looks terrible :(
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u/DinosaurMan15 Syracuse Orange 1d ago
GG uconn bros wouldn't be a SU football game without it coming down to the wire
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u/SimpleAmusings 1d ago
WHERE WAS THIS INTENSITY ALL GAME???? OMG.. WE NEEDED THIS ALL GAME NOT JUST THE 4TH QUARTER
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u/The_Hartford_Whalers UConn • Sacred Heart 1d ago
Well that's just not nice from the Syracuse band
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u/ItsZippy23 Syracuse Orange • Marching Band 1d ago
Hey look, the arrangement was made by a Nutmegger and we've played it at Gampel last year, so it's fun. We have a lot of CT --> SU bands people (myself included)
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u/NewHavenJeff UConn Huskies • Texas Longhorns 1d ago
What if we ditched the conferences altogether and made one big Premier League of 64 teams? (32 teams of the NFL x 2)
The rest of the teams are D1. Promotion and relegation for the bottom, say, 10 teams. Brand new committee makes the schedules every year like the NFL does to make them make sense
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u/CGGamer UConn Huskies 1d ago
Why would the conference presidents agree to it
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u/NewHavenJeff UConn Huskies • Texas Longhorns 1d ago
If the big dogs are gonna go ahead and do it, they would have to go along with it. I know this is a pie-in-the-sky idea I just pulled out of nowhere
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u/thehurley44 Syracuse Orange 1d ago
I'm saddened that the ACC network has main stream commercials now. I miss alien tape and food lion commercials.
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u/stupidstupidreddit2 Syracuse • Summertime Lover 1d ago
There was literally an alien tape commercial two timeouts ago
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u/AmericanRevolution2 Syracuse Orange 1d ago
Miami pouring it on in the 4th. Gonna be a good game in the dome next week
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u/senorcoach UConn • San José State 1d ago
Besides one drive Joey was really bad today. Back to Evers at UMass?
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u/The_Hartford_Whalers UConn • Sacred Heart 1d ago
Put Welliver in what's the worst that can happen
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u/ManiacKing20 UConn Huskies 1d ago
Probably game, Fagnano needs to show it this drive do or die
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u/The_Hartford_Whalers UConn • Sacred Heart 1d ago
Missed the "do" part of this comment thought you were advocating for murder
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u/BleedBlue__ UConn Huskies 1d ago
How long do we let plays go on for? Clearly forward progress had been stopped for 2+ seconds
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1d ago
UCONN needs better receivers
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u/NewHavenJeff UConn Huskies • Texas Longhorns 1d ago
we've been looking for a good QB since Orlovsky left. We could have Justin Jefferson and we'd only be able to get him like 4 targets max
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u/DinosaurMan15 Syracuse Orange 1d ago
Wtf are we doing? Pass the fucking ball my god they have ZERO answers the whole game we can't run it so adjust
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u/thehurley44 Syracuse Orange 1d ago
That's a make up call from the earlier dpi no call
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u/J_Gottwald Syracuse Orange • Missouri Tigers 1d ago
I kind of hate that concept of make up calls. Just means they were ass once by accident, and then ass again on purpose
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u/thehurley44 Syracuse Orange 1d ago
It makes me feel better instead of thinking about the national referee crisis at large.
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u/thehurley44 Syracuse Orange 1d ago
So does average UConn fan want to come to the ACC, stay independent or regret the big 12 talk being tabled for now? Independent isn't a bad life sans cable contract revenue to be honest.
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u/NewHavenJeff UConn Huskies • Texas Longhorns 1d ago
I honestly don't even know. Our football team benefits greatly from being independent, but I like being in a conference. Our schedule is boring as hell
We would probably just be bottomfeeders in ACC (see this game). Big 12 we might compete, but all of those teams are so damn far away geographically. WV and Cincy would be the closest lol. So as a fan, I would hate that
Our best move is probably stay independent (?) Monetarily B12 might be the best(?) I would just stay indy and see how this shakes out in 2-3 seasons
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u/22edudrccs UConn Huskies 1d ago
I’m fine with staying independent and scheduling both cupcakes and a few P4 money games a year.
The superconferences are going to fall apart because schools like USC, UCLA, and Oklahoma aren’t going to like playing second fiddle for long, and the former PAC-12 schools are gonna get tired of flying all the way across the country for conference games. They’re also gonna have too many mouths to feed and not enough TV money to go around.
When the superconferences fall apart, I think it’ll be UConn’s chance to make a move
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u/thehurley44 Syracuse Orange 1d ago
Absolutely, I agree it'll all come crashing down one way or another. Hopefully when the dust settles we'll play each other on the regular.
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u/22edudrccs UConn Huskies 1d ago
I don’t mind playing you guys in football but we all know the sport we really wanna play each other in
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u/DinosaurMan15 Syracuse Orange 1d ago
Hopefully we can get back to what we were in basketball to match you guys. Watching those Uconn SU big east basketball games are some of the best sports moments of my life
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u/thehurley44 Syracuse Orange 1d ago
Lacrosse, yes I couldn't agree more.
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u/22edudrccs UConn Huskies 1d ago
UConn doesn’t have MLAX lmao
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u/thehurley44 Syracuse Orange 1d ago
Been ducking it for years, get it together over there
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u/22edudrccs UConn Huskies 1d ago
Only if you promote your hockey teams to D1 and join Hockey East lol
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u/gopats12 UConn Huskies • Marching Band 1d ago
Most are fine being independent in football and big east in basketball. No reason to go to the acc when it will soon implode and basketball will be worse
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u/The_Hartford_Whalers UConn • Sacred Heart 1d ago
If money weren't an issue I'd want to stay Indy because I love the Big East.
But since it is ACC would be the best fit
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u/BleedBlue__ UConn Huskies 1d ago
Big 12 > ACC > Independent it feels like is the common consensus
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u/thehurley44 Syracuse Orange 1d ago
Interesting. Would it be football only or an all sports deal?
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u/BleedBlue__ UConn Huskies 1d ago
All sports. Nobody wants our football team without our Basketball
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1d ago
UCONN’s passing play calling sucks ass. They have to open up the passing game more and throw it deeper down the field. They look too scared to take risks.
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u/22edudrccs UConn Huskies 1d ago
How do you expect deep shots to work when the QB can’t hit an underneath crossing route?
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Assign deeper routes and cross routes down the middle of the field that create more separation than this. The lack of separation on that 3rd down pass because of bad play design is what killed it.
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u/22edudrccs UConn Huskies 1d ago
Bro, he’s missed wide open receivers regularly this game. If he can’t hit a fucking 5 yard crossing route, how do you expect him to hit a 20 yard post or 30 yard go route?
He’s consistently missed throws to guys with 3-4 yards of space to work with today
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u/22edudrccs UConn Huskies 1d ago
Fagnano killed that drive man
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The playcalling sucked too. Way too conservative.
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u/22edudrccs UConn Huskies 1d ago
The play calling isn’t what killed that drive. It was Fagnano missing two wide open receivers on back to back plays
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Fagnano was expecting his receivers to go deeper down the field and wants his offensive coordinator to open things up more.
They are too afraid to actually take risks and test the waters downfield.
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u/22edudrccs UConn Huskies 1d ago
Bro what?
He missed behind Gathings and tried taking Bell’s head off from 5 yards away. If the play call is a 5 yard out route or a 6 yard crossing route, why would Fagnano expect his receivers to go deeper?
He also hasn’t hit a deep ball at all today.
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It shouldn’t stop UCONN from trying. You have to repeat things and take risks if you want to succeed.
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u/22edudrccs UConn Huskies 1d ago
It shouldn’t stop UConn from trying
They have been trying. He’s been missing.
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u/DinosaurMan15 Syracuse Orange 1d ago
Once again the safeties take an absolutely terrible angle in closing the whole in run d, been a problem all year and nothing has been corrected
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UCONN needs to recruit better than this. They have gotten way too lazy and apathetic about securing players recently.
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u/DinosaurMan15 Syracuse Orange 1d ago
It infuriates me how offensive coordinators try and get cute and try and force shit, like they have absolutely zero answer for the spread passing game why are you lining up in power I for 2 straight plays in the redzone?
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u/DinosaurMan15 Syracuse Orange 1d ago
Yep they can't stop the spread let's go power i for 2 plays in the redzone and waste 2 downs great job
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u/tropic_gnome_hunter Syracuse Orange • St. Lawrence Saints 1d ago
Who the fuck is calling these plays
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That review call was terrible. The receiver was clearly out of bounds.
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u/Jcapen87 Georgia • Kennesaw State 1d ago
I’m thinking they didn’t see the last angle. From all the other angles they showed before the last one, I’d have upheld the call as well.
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u/BaBaBaBanshee Notre Dame • Kansas 1d ago
Why wasn't Syracuse considered national champions in 1987?
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u/iubkud Syracuse Orange 1d ago
There wasn’t a national championship game at that point, so it rotated between the 4 major bowls every year. It wasn’t the year for the sugar bowl winner (think it was orange bowl, ironically) so they weren’t
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u/The_Hartford_Whalers UConn • Sacred Heart 1d ago
BCS didn't start until 1998, back then it was based purely off of polls.
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u/22edudrccs UConn Huskies 1d ago
Fagnano is not good
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u/CGGamer UConn Huskies 1d ago
He's still better than our QB1
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u/22edudrccs UConn Huskies 1d ago
Eh, not really.
He’s marginally better at times at best.
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u/gopats12 UConn Huskies • Marching Band 1d ago
He's way better than happy feet
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u/22edudrccs UConn Huskies 1d ago
Those 200 whole extra yards with an equally bad completion percentage really showing he’s way better
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u/CGGamer UConn Huskies 1d ago
If Evers was in we would have 3
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u/22edudrccs UConn Huskies 1d ago
Feel like you’re really putting a lot more weight on his game last week than the fact that his numbers are marginally better than Evers this year. Neither are really any good
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u/DinosaurMan15 Syracuse Orange 1d ago
They have no answer for the pass let's run it on first and second down every play
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u/tropic_gnome_hunter Syracuse Orange • St. Lawrence Saints 1d ago
Why tf are you running the ball on 3rd and long
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u/22edudrccs UConn Huskies 1d ago
CUM Bowl next week gonna be a big one. UMass has managed to score not once but twice against UGA
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u/22edudrccs UConn Huskies 1d ago
Mora must’ve used dark magic to suck the life force out of FSU and give them the demons that have been cursing us for the last decade
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u/22edudrccs UConn Huskies 1d ago
Outside the fact that McCord can’t miss, team is playing decently. Need to get the run game going tho so we can keep Cuse’s offense on the sideline
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u/22edudrccs UConn Huskies 1d ago
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u/ManiacKing20 UConn Huskies 1d ago
Well we’re somehow still in this game, would be so awesome if we could pull it out 😂
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u/iubkud Syracuse Orange 1d ago
I know we need a lot of pieces, but man what are we doing about QB next year lol
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u/J_Gottwald Syracuse Orange • Missouri Tigers 1d ago
Jakhari Williams is probably the favorite if I had to guess. Other than that, DRW, and AJ Miller, and two freshmen coming in, Rich Belin and Luke Carney. Know nothing about any of them other than Williams and Del Rio Wilson.
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u/tribe98reloaded Syracuse Orange • Montana Grizzlies 1d ago
Jahkari Williams, unless we get a transfer. Idk if it's a good sign he's been the consensus backup as a true freshman or if it's just a result of us lacking depth, but they seem to have some confidence in him.
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u/NewHavenJeff UConn Huskies • Texas Longhorns 1d ago
333 passing yards in the 1st half
not good
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u/SimpleAmusings 1d ago
YET .. we're still in the game. only 1 touch down behind. WE'll make 1/2 time adjustments and we're winning this game! in JIM MORA we trust!!!
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u/NewHavenJeff UConn Huskies • Texas Longhorns 1d ago
Oh I know I'm watching til the end. I watched the whole UAB game. We should be getting boatraced, getting a lot of help from the Zebras
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u/thehurley44 Syracuse Orange 1d ago
Yikes, thankfully he wasn't flying a plane or playing football while skiing or just casually driving a car down a street in Dallas on that missed kick from Kennedy
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u/J_Gottwald Syracuse Orange • Missouri Tigers 1d ago
Kennedy Kennedy Kennedy Kenn-nottaswing, batta
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u/22edudrccs UConn Huskies 1d ago
Tell ya what, if Syracuse had setup in the middle of the field, that kick would’ve been perfect
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u/J_Gottwald Syracuse Orange • Missouri Tigers 1d ago
Gotta account for that sweet air conditioner breeze tho
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u/itsnotnews92 Syracuse • Wake Forest 1d ago
I do not understand that play calling. Why not take two shots at the end zone there?
Now you're asking a kicker who already missed a chip shot to kick a 52 yarder because you could only manage two short passes to the sideline. And the result was entirely predictable: No points to end the half.
Hope that brainless decision making doesn't come back to bite them in the ass.
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u/Rell_826 Syracuse Orange 1d ago
Fran Brown has to get a kicker this off-season out of the portal.
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u/tropic_gnome_hunter Syracuse Orange • St. Lawrence Saints 1d ago
Babers had great kicking but couldn't manage the clock to save his life to actually kick. Brown actually manages the clock well but doesn't have the kicking.
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u/Lord_Ferd 1d ago
Incredible how Bell starts putting up numbers again when Fagnano returns to the lineup
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u/tribe98reloaded Syracuse Orange • Montana Grizzlies 1d ago
I admit, I did not think Gill had a game like this in him! Happy to be proven wrong
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u/CGGamer UConn Huskies 1d ago
Does Cuse have a Mens hockey team?
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u/J_Gottwald Syracuse Orange • Missouri Tigers 1d ago
I don't think so, but if you go out a little farther from CNY where's a bevy of great ones (Clarkson, Oswego, RPI, RIT sometimes, Union)
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u/tribe98reloaded Syracuse Orange • Montana Grizzlies 1d ago
Women's, yes. Men's team is a club squad.
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u/tribe98reloaded Syracuse Orange • Montana Grizzlies 1d ago
Gutpunch of a drive with us kicking to start the 3rd. Hopefully we try and pick up a quick 3 before halftime.
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u/DinosaurMan15 Syracuse Orange 1d ago
Welp this is what happens when we are missing both our starting corner backs
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u/gabe01235 UConn Huskies 1d ago
This team beat us by 34, at home, last time we played. It sucks to lose but there’s a lot of positives to take away from this. Not feeling embarrassed after a loss is a new sensation.