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Cheetah Speed
The cheetah is the world’s fastest land animal. They can run 70 mph (or 110 kph), which is as fast as cars drive on the highway. The cheetah can reach its top speed in just 3 seconds!
Spotted Skin
The cheetah’s fur is covered in solid black spots, and so is their skin! The black fur actually grows out of the black spots on their skin.
A cheetah's favorite food
Cheetahs are carnivores, and feed mostly on smaller antelope like springbok, steenbok, Thomson’s gazelle, and duiker. They usually chase down their prey and then bite its throat, killing it by cutting off its air supply (suffocation).
Tail like a rudder
The cheetah has a long, muscular tail that has a flat shape. The tail almost functions like a rudder on a boat because they use it to help control their steering and keep their balance when running very fast.
Almost like flying
When cheetahs are running full speed, their stride (length between steps) is 6-7 meters (21 feet). Their feet only touch the ground twice during each stride.
A lot of kids
A mother cheetah usually cares for anywhere from 2 to 8 cubs per litter, but cubs are often the target of other predators and many do not survive past the first year.
Like Football Players
Cheetahs have “tear marks” that run from the inside corners of their eyes down to the outside edges of their mouth. These marks help reflect the glare of the sun when they are hunting during the day. They work just like the black marks that football players put under their eyes during the games. These marks also work like the sights on a rifle, to help the cheetah “aim” and stay focused on their prey when they are hunting.
SU News
How will Babers tackle staff changes, recruiting after 5-7 season? (podcast) (PS; podcast; Bailey & Whigham)
Dino Babers is making a list and he’s checking it twice.
As Syracuse football’s head coach turns the page on a disappointing 5-7 season, he enters perhaps the most crucial offseason of his tenure in Central New York.
Babers already needs to find a defensive coordinator and said after the Orange’s 39-30 overtime win against Wake Forest on Saturday that more changes are coming. And this shift in staffing overlaps with the Class of 2020 recruiting calendar; the early signing period looms on Dec. 18-20.
So on this episode of the Syracuse Football Podcast, Julian Whigham and I break down the coaching and recruiting situations. We also touch on Trill Williams’ strip six and what makes the sophomore defensive back special as well as projected contributors in 2020.
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Trishton Jackson, special teams up in season-ending stock watch (DO; Black)
Syracuse’s (5-7, 2-6 Atlantic Coast) season ended positively on Saturday, as the Orange took down Wake Forest, 39-30, in overtime on a Trill Williams walk-off fumble return for a touchdown.
As a whole, however, SU’s season was largely a disappointment in terms of its expectations heading into the year. The Orange won 10 games last season en route to finishing second in the ACC and winning the Camping World Bowl, leading many to believe the 2019 season could potentially be even better. Instead, Syracuse won half as many games and failed to defeat a Power 5 opponent until its 10th game of the season.
Here’s whose stock is up or down, looking back at the Orange’s 2019 campaign.
STOCK UP
Jackson gave Syracuse fans a glimpse of what he could do in the Camping World Bowl last year, making his SU debut with three catches, 27 yards and a touchdown. He built on that performance this season, quickly establishing himself as the No. 1 receiver in the Orange offense. His breakout performance came in Syracuse’s week two loss to Maryland, in which Jackson totaled seven catches for 157 yards and a pair of touchdowns. He’d go on to have four more 100-plus yard games and finished top-5 in the ACC in receptions, yards and touchdowns.
Despite some early-season criticism, DeVito passed the test as Syracuse’s starting quarterback this year, throwing for 19 touchdowns and 2,360 yards, both top-10 single-season marks in SU history. The redshirt sophomore had five games with 250 yards or more and four games with three touchdown passes or more, including back-to-back contests against Western Michigan and Holy Cross in which he threw four touchdowns in each. Despite being sacked nearly 50 times, one of the worst marks in the country, DeVito fought through injuries and growing pains to carve out one of the best Syracuse passing seasons ever.
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What Would Florida OL Chris Bleich Mean to Syracuse? – Orange Fizz – Free Syracuse Recruiting News (orangefizz.net; Leonard)
There were plenty of reasons why Syracuse fell way short of expectations this season. The biggest and most consistent problem, though, was the offense line. The Orange allowed 4.17 sacks per contest, the worst mark of any power conference team in the country and 128th out of 130 total.
The good news: everyone except for guard Evan Adams is back. The Orange should start the year with a healthy Sam Heckel and you’d think only get better.
That being said, until proven otherwise it is still the biggest concern going forward. It seems Coach Babers and his staff are already proving they know this.
Florida OL Chris Bleich visited the campus this weekend and we can assume attended the Wake Forest game, according to Stephen Bailey of Syracuse.com.
Bleich, who recently entered the transfer portal, certainly would bring talent. The 6-6, 330 pound lineman started eight games at guard this season for Florida until the Gators opted to go with their backup. But his offer sheet shows the potential. He was originally committed to both UCLA and Penn State before going to Florida and also had offers from plenty of the ACC schools like Pittsburgh and North Carolina.
Syracuse.com also reports offensive line coach Mike Cavanaugh also has a relationship with him as he used to be on the staff at Nebraska, which offered Bleich as well.
Now Bleich is not a graduate transfer so he would need to apply for a family hardship waiver to be able to play next year for Syracuse. However, it seems like that is somewhat likely. Dan Mullen hinted at his “family issues” being part of the reason he entered the transfer portal.
Bleich may have struggled a little bit at Florida, but the fact that he started eighth games says a lot. Besides, if you’re getting a benched former starter, Florida isn’t a bad place for that.
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Virginia Football's Turnaround Under Bronco Mendenhall (SI; Dellenger)
It took six weeks for Bronco Mendenhall’s first Virginia football team to learn how to properly warm up before a practice. That was the second sign that his rebuilding plan here might take longer than expected. The first sign came during his initial team meeting in January 2016 when players, slouched in their chairs and buried on their phones, rarely made eye contact with their new coach. There were other signs, too: a paltry budget, a shortage in staffing and facilities not nearly up to industry standards.
A few weeks into his new gig, Mendenhall realized just what he’d gotten himself into. “There was just disrepair. It was clear that what I had hoped for Year 1 was going to be Year 2,” he says. Mendenhall is speaking while surrounded by a celebration he never envisioned would happen so soon. Music boomed from the Cavaliers’ locker room, players paraded through the bowels of Scott Stadium and fans poured from the bleachers, trampling the field underneath their feet. Virginia’s 39–30 win over Virginia Tech not only snapped the Hoos’ 15-game losing skid to their in-state rival, not only gave them their first conference or division title since 1995 but stood alone as a culmination of a rebuilding effort that few—even the rebuilder himself—saw coming so quickly.
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King of the Hill: ACC Football Power Rankings (Week 14) (cardiachill.com; Whaley)
I may do a post-bowl edition but this is likely the final ACC Football Rankings post of the season. Here’s how I rank the conference teams based on last week’s results. Number in parentheses is the team’s ranking last week.
- (1) Clemson (12-0) - 38-3 win over South Carolina
- (3) Virginia (9-3) - 39-30 win over Virginia Tech
- (2) Virginia Tech (8-4) - Lost to Virginia
- (6) Wake Forest (8-4) - 39-30 loss to Syracuse
- (4) Miami (6-6) - 27-17 loss to Duke
- (5) Louisville (7-5) - 45-13 loss to Kentucky
- (8) Florida State (6-6) - 40-17 loss to Florida
- (10) Boston College (6-6) - 26-19 win over Pitt
- (7) Pitt (7-5) - Lost to Boston College
- (9) North Carolina (6-6) - 41-10 win over NC State
- (11) Syracuse (5-7) - Beat Wake Forest
- (12) Duke (5-7) - Beat Miami
- (13) Georgia Tech (3-9) - Lost to Georgia, 52-7
- (14) North Carolina State (4-8) - Lost to North Carolina
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Louisville football: Where the ACC went right and wrong with All-Conference Teams (BRL; Lane)
The 2019 All-ACC teams have been announced. We react to each Louisville football who made the list and a few who didn’t.
Louisville football is entering football purgatory; The odd part of the season where every somewhat successful college football team gets a chance to rest and recuperate after the regular season while awaiting their fate to come in the form of a postseason bowl game.
Though any New Year Six games and any big-name opponent on the heels of a great season is out of the picture, Louisville still has a shot at getting an attractive match-up with its eye on an eight-win season after an improbable run in conference play.
Sure, some dominoes had to fall their way, but Louisville football also had a ton of key players with breakthrough seasons, without whom Scott Satterfield’s squad may have been on the outside looking in, preparing for what is to come in 2020.
That wasn’t the case, however. And though Louisville was thin at a lot of positions, the Cardinals had a number of key players step up in major ways. We saw record-breaking seasons from multiple individuals, while others could see the fruits of their labors rewarded with an early exit while eyeing the NFL and beyond. That’s what made the release of the 2019 All-ACC Teams so intriguing.
It’s been a quiet few years for Louisville since having 12 players make the All-ACC teams back in 2016, having just four players listed in 2017, and zero in 2018. This year was going to be different though, as mentioned.
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More Links, news and rumors - 12/3/19 (RX; HM)
More Links, news and rumors - 12/3/19
Here's what Banner Society had to say about the Boston College head football coach job opening:
So you're saying 7 to 10 wins per season is do-able? Not a bad situation for a coach...
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ACC Football Championship Game tickets are available through Groupon for $45 each [LINK].
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I know some of you Florida State fans were anticipating something Monday or Tuesday of this week, but...
From The Tallahassee Democrat (newspaper):
Hang in there, Noles.
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Links, news and rumors - 12/3/19 (RX; HM)
Links, news and rumors - 12/3/19
From FBSchedules: Miami (FL), South Carolina schedule football series for 2026, 2027
Old Southern independent rivals renew their long-dormant series.
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https://accfootballrx.blogspot.com/2019/12/cfp-top-25-12319.html (RX; HM)
CFP Top 25 - 12/3/19
Here's the latest CFP Top 25:
College Football Playoff Rankings
| Rank | Team | W-L |
| 1 | Ohio State | 12-0 |
| 2 | LSU | 12-0 |
| 3 | Clemson | 12-0 |
| 4 | Georgia | 11-1 |
| 5 | Utah | 11-1 |
| 6 | Oklahoma | 11-1 |
| 7 | Baylor | 11-1 |
| 8 | Wisconsin | 10-2 |
| 9 | Florida | 10-2 |
| 10 | Penn State | 10-2 |
| 11 | Auburn | 9-3 |
| 12 | Alabama | 10-2 |
| 13 | Oregon | 10-2 |
| 14 | Michigan | 9-3 |
| 15 | Notre Dame | 10-2 |
| 16 | Iowa | 9-3 |
| 17 | Memphis | 11-1 |
| 18 | Minnesota | 10-2 |
| 19 | Boise State | 11-1 |
| 20 | Cincinnati | 10-2 |
| 21 | Appalachian St | 11-1 |
| 22 | USC | 8-4 |
| 23 | Virginia | 9-3 |
| 24 | Navy | 9-2 |
| 25 | Oklahoma St | 8-4 |
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25 Things That Make Syracuse Great: Apples (PS; House)
Twenty-five years ago, Syracuse.com was launched. It was, and remains, the leading source of information and advertising in Central New York. To celebrate, we’re exploring what makes Syracuse great, and we’ve come up with 25 things that fit the bill.
The seasons. Snow. A full house for an SU basketball game in February. You get the idea.
Every day for 25 days we’ll explore the stuff we brag about and wear as badges of honor as a testament to the folks who make our corner of the world such a great place. We want to know what you think makes Syracuse and the Central New York region great. Tell us here. And you can see our previous stories here.
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So many varieties, and in 2020 Cornell will introduce three more
Apple picking is more than a fall excursion. In Central New York, it’s a rite of passage.
As kids, we flock to picturesque orchards across the region and run through rows of fruit-laden trees. We study the trees, taking our time before plucking the perfect apple off a branch. Then, we bite into our ruby-red prize – sweet and crisp as fall air.
Even as adults, apples taste like childhood.
“Everyone, including adults, becomes younger in an orchard,” said Susan K. Brown, professor of horticulture for Cornell University’s Colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences. “The pictures show the fun.”
There are 674 apple growers in New York state, Brown said. Farmers in our region grow a diverse variety of apples – including many developed by Cornell.
That’s part of what makes the region great: We grow our own apples right here in CNY. And that makes for deliciously local fresh fruit, sweet and hard cider, donuts and fritters.
There are only three major university apple breeding programs in the United States, and New York boasts one of them: Cornell’s.
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