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Welcome to International Literacy Day!
International Literacy Day 2020 focuses on “Literacy teaching and learning in the COVID-19 crisis and beyond,” especially on the role of educators and changing pedagogies. The theme highlights literacy learning in a lifelong learning perspective, and therefore, mainly focuses on youth and adults. The recent Covid-19 crisis has been a stark reminder of the existing gap between policy discourse and reality: a gap that already existed in the pre-COVID-19 era and negatively affects the learning of youth and adults, who have no or low literacy skills, and therefore, tend to face multiple disadvantages. During COVID-19, in many countries, adult literacy programmes were absent in the initial education response plans, so most adult literacy programmes that did exist were suspended, with just a few courses continuing virtually, through TV and radio, or in open air spaces. What is the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on youth and adult literacy educators and teaching and learning? What are the lessons learnt? How can we effectively position youth and adult literacy learning in global and national responses and in strategies for the recovery and resilience-building phase?
By exploring these questions, International Literacy Day 2020 provides an opportunity to reflect on and discuss how innovative and effective pedagogies and teaching methodologies can be used in youth and adult literacy programmes to face the pandemic and beyond. The Day will also give an opportunity to analyse the role of educators, as well as formulate effective policies, systems, governance and measures that can support educators and learning.
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What to know about surprises on Syracuse’s Week 1 depth chart (PS; $; Bailey)
After completed preseason camp with no in-person media access, Syracuse football released its Week 1 depth chart on Monday.
For the casual fan, there were shocking omissions including running backs Abdul Adams and Jarveon Howard, as well as a jarring position switch with Chris Elmore moving to left guard. For the avid follower, there were surprising inclusions such as freshman linebacker Stefon Thompson and position changes in the secondary.
Let’s take a step back and go through the Orange’s roster position-by-position in order to contextualize the initial two-deep. This analysis stems from information gained through interviews and background conversations.
Quarterback
Not a ton of questions here. Redshirt junior Tommy DeVito has been the clear-cut starter with redshirt senior Rex Culpepper his clear-cut backup. If Babers needs to look beyond those two, there will be trouble. The Orange may have lost its third-best quarterback when walk-on Drew Gunther left to take a full-ride scholarship at Bowling Green.
It will be clear who the staff likes out of redshirt freshman David Summers and true freshmen JaCobian Morgan and Dillon Markiewicz based on which one travels to North Carolina this weekend.
Running back
Adams and Howard haven’t been included in any photos or videos sent from SU Athletics to local media during camp. There’s been no indication otherwise that they’ve participated in practice.
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Beat writers predict a difficult, 'underdog' 2020 season (DO; Staff)
After a 5-7 season in which Syracuse failed to match its preseason anticipation and won just two Atlantic Coast Conference games, the Orange kick off an unprecedented 11-game campaign on Saturday at North Carolina. SU will play 10 ACC games and one nonconference game against Liberty, and it opens the renovated Carrier Dome on Sept. 26 with Georgia Tech.
Here’s how The Daily Orange’s beat writers think Syracuse will fare this season, assuming the full year is completed:
Anthony Dabbundo
Stalled
Record: 4-7
A quick glance at the Syracuse schedule, specifically the road games, doesn’t give a ton of optimism toward the Orange’s chances in 2020. They’ll be double-digit underdogs in all five road games, but the schedule does feature enough winnable games at home that, if SU’s offense takes a step forward after the multiple steps back it took in 2019, they should win a few games. Tommy DeVito will have a solid second season as full time Syracuse starter, while tight end Aaron Hackett and Luke Benson become bright spots in an otherwise average SU offense.
Syracuse’s front six will struggle to stop the run, but the secondary will force enough turnovers to keep the Orange in games at home against similarly talented opposition. Syracuse loses all five road games, but grabs wins against Liberty, Boston College, Georgia Tech and Wake Forest en route to a mediocre 4-7 record. After a 1-3 start with a few ugly losses to UNC and Pittsburgh, the Orange get healthier up front on the offensive line, improve in its defensive scheme and avoid a disaster of a season. In the end, 2020’s football season will be remembered for all the circumstances and events that happened off the field, rather than what happened on it.
Danny Emerman
You can do it
Record: 2-9
There’s a scene in “The Waterboy” where it’s revealed that main character Bobby Boucher, played by Adam Sandler, didn’t go to high school and is therefore ruled ineligible by the NCAA. To that revelation, a townie (Rob Schneider) exclaims, “Oh no! We suck again!”
While Syracuse won’t be missing a phenom middle linebacker (though it is still possible a star player opts out because of COVID-19), the Orange face a similarly dire outlook as Boucher’s fictional University of Louisiana team. SU has talent, but deficiencies on the defensive line and at wide receiver, a big question mark in the offensive line, and a tough schedule dig Syracuse a hole. Winnable games include Liberty, Duke, Boston College, Georgia Tech and NC State, of which Syracuse will win two and lead Otto’s Army to quote Rob Schneider.
Adam Hillman
The kids will be alright
Record: 4-7
This Syracuse team surely doesn’t have the expectations of the 2019 one, and players have been quick to point out how they have a chip on their shoulder. But, I don’t think there’s enough experience on this roster to have a winning season. Winning on the road in this conference requires poise, and there aren’t enough guys on this roster who’ve played key minutes. The talent is promising. Mikel Jones was a 4-star coming out of high school, Taj Harris has flashed in spurts, and Matthew Bergeron can be the lynchpin of the offensive line. The defense could win the Orange games but, I don’t see how they string together six wins in a season with 10 conference games.
It’s difficult to see how SU wins on the road against Clemson, UNC, Notre Dame, Pitt or Louisville. The Orange will defeat Liberty, NC State, Duke and Georgia Tech — all home games. In what might be a wasted year anyway due to COVID-19, it might not be so bad to rebuild. They’ll end up with a losing record, but SU will have plenty of positives to take to 2021.
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SU Football 2020 Season Preview (cnycentral.com; Sladek)
It's officially game week for Orange Nation. Head Coach Dino Babers and the SU football team are gearing up for a tough Week 1 match-up at #18 North Carolina. How will they make out in the 2020 season? Here are our predictions:
Niko Tamurian: 6-5
You can give the schedule an eye test and simply take the six home games as wins and the five road games as losses. Syracuse did go undefeated at the Dome in 2018.
It's true, and Dino Babers said it himself on Monday that the road schedule may be one of the toughest in the country with three of the five matchups going against current Top-20 teams (#1 Clemson, #10 Notre Dame, #18 North Carolina). However, we've seen it time and time again there's the beauty of the unexpected nature of college football. Remember 2017? SU lost at home to Middle Tennessee State but then bounced back to beat #2 Clemson at the Dome? If there were ever a year to expect the unexpected, this unique 2020 season would be the one. I think Syracuse may take a road game some don't expect (at Pitt? But it won't be easy). I'm eager to see how Syracuse bounces back not just from a rough 2019 season but an offseason with a pandemic and team-forced stoppages in practice. So, I'm going with 6-5 based on the leadership of Coach Dino Babers, the veteran leaders (Andre Cisco, Airon Servais, Tommy DeVito, Chris Elmore etc.) but fully understand it won't take much to swing that reality wildly in either direction. Welcome to College Football in 2020, at least we have games to watch hopefully through December.
Matt Hauswirth: 7-4
Tommy Sladek: 6-5
I'll start off by saying how great it feels to actual make a 'season prediction' with all that's gone on these past six months. With that being said, this fall will come down to SU's mental toughness and the ability to stay healthy. Babers is not one to allow players to slack off. If these young men stay focused, I see 5 wins at home and a road victory early on at Pittsburgh. Tommy Devito is seasoned and ready for a solid year leading the offense. I love the depth of the secondary with Andre Cisco serving as a boogey-man for unsuspecting victims. 6-5 feels comfortable.
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Syracuse Football 2020 Season Preview & record prediction
Syracuse Football: It’s time for running back Jawhar Jordan to shine (itlh; Adler)
With Syracuse football running backs Abdul Adams and Jarveon Howard absent from the team’s first 2020 depth chart, this puts Jawhar Jordan in the spotlight.
Syracuse football is only a handful of days from its 2020 season opener at No. 18 North Carolina, and some clarity at running back appeared on Monday, with Jawhar Jordan listed as the first-squad player at this position.
That’s according to the Orange’s first depth chart of the 2020 campaign, which the ‘Cuse unveiled on Monday, according to a report by Stephen Bailey of Syracuse.com.
As we recently penned a column on, redshirt senior Abdul Adams and junior Jarveon Howard entered the fall term as the top-two running backs, as it pertains to yardage gained in 2019, who were on the roster heading into the 2020 stanza.
In our piece, we noted that during a recent virtual call with media members, Syracuse football head coach Dino Babers got asked about the status of Adams and Howard on the team, and Babers responded by saying journalists should contact them individually. That didn’t prove an encouraging sign.
On Monday afternoon, both of their bios still appear on cuse.com, however, as Bailey writes in his story, per the Orange’s two-deep depth chart, redshirt freshman Jordan is placed as the first-crew running back, with redshirt junior Markenzy Pierre slotted as the back-up at this position.
Adams and Howard each accumulated more than 300 yards rushing in 2019, when the ‘Cuse went 5-7, and both were expected to contend for the starting job. Thus, this development stings a bit for Syracuse football, a group that is hoping to prove the doubters wrong after the Atlantic Coast Conference’s pre-season media poll and a bevy of other national prognostications forecast the ‘Cuse to hover around the league’s basement.
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Keys to the Game: Previewing Syracuse at North Carolina (SI; Payne)
The Orange have a tough draw in Week One. Syracuse will travel to Chapel Hill to face No. 18 North Carolina in National Champion head coach Mack Brown’s second season back with the Tar Heels. UNC’s balanced offensive attack and opportunistic defense makes them legitimate contenders for the ACC crown. Defensive coordinator Tony White’s new 3-3-5 will need to force mistakes early and the Orange offensive line will need showcase some much needed improvement from last season. Below are Syracuse’s keys to the game in Week One.
PICK YOUR POISON
Should you sell out to stop the run? Or should you camp out deep to prevent the big play? This is the dilemma head coach Dino Babers and his coaching staff find themselves in as they prepare for this less-than-favorable opening week match-up.
North Carolina quarterback and reigning ACC Rookie of the Year Sam Howell will most definitely keep Orange defenders honest. Howell’s 38 touchdown passes in 2019 set a school record and the Tar Heel air assault garnered ACC runner-up honors with 474 total yards per game. Despite entering just his second season as a starter, Coach Babers says he’ll have to prepare for a Sunday talent between now and Saturday night.
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Syracuse vs North Carolina Prediction, Game Preview (CFN; Fiutak)
Syracuse vs North Carolina Broadcast
Date: Saturday, September 12
Game Time: 12:00 ET
Venue: Kenan Stadium, Chapel Hill, NC
Network: ACC Network
Syracuse (0-0) vs. North Carolina (0-0) Game Preview
Why Syracuse Will Win
The secondary is good enough to keep the tremendous North Carolina receiving corps in relative check. The combination of S Andre Cisco and CB Trill Williams is strong to work around, and despite the loss of some key parts, the pass rush should emerge in a hurry with a good rotation of young players.
On the other side, the Orange offensive line that was such an issue throughout last year should be far more effective. The North Carolina defensive front will need a little while to get everything in place on the inside. It’s not like Syracuse will grind, but at least QB Tommy DeVito shouldn’t be crushed on a regular basis like he was last year behind a lime with four starters back. However …
– CFN Preview 2020: Every Team Preview, Rankings, Predictions
Why North Carolina Will Win
Syracuse has 100 miles to go before that offensive line is even decent compared to where it was last year. It has to prove right away that it can keep defenses from flying into the backfield and jumping on the heads of the skill guys.
And that Orange pass rush has to prove itself, too. It’s been hit-or-miss in the Dino Babers era, and while it should be better, it really does have to replace a whole slew of key producers. North Carolina has the experience now to go along with the young talent on both sides of the line.
What’s Going To Happen
Syracuse is going to be pesky.
All the hype is around a very, very good Tar Heel team with a high-powered offense and experience on the defensive side, but the Orange will come in charged up and a whole lot more effective than they were throughout last season.
DeVito will have a big game, UNC will screw up/stall just enough to make this a fight, but Tar Heel QB Sam Howell will also make just enough big throws to get out alive.
Syracuse vs North Carolina Prediction, Line
North Carolina 34, Syracuse 30
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Podcast: Taylor Vippolis Syracuse Game Week Preview (tarheeltimes.com; Vippolis)
Taylor Vippolis is joined by letterman Mike Ingersoll and E.J. Wilson to preview UNC Football's upcoming season opener against Syracuse. The podcast concludes with the new segment "Glass-Half Full" with former Tar Heel linebacker Shakeel Rashad, who breaks down what North Carolina has to do to start the season 1-0.
Locked On Syracuse - Daily Podcast On Syracuse Orange Football & Basketball on Apple Podcasts (apple.com; Aki & Leonard)
8 takeaways on the depth chart and a big commit over the weekend...
Syracuse Football: Important facets to dissect in first 2020 depth chart (itlh; Adler)
Besides what’s going on at running back, there are other significant items to discuss in the Syracuse football initial 2020 depth chart.
Syracuse football disclosed its first depth chart of the 2020 campaign on Monday, and besides the situation at running back, which we just covered, there are numerous additional things of consequence to pass along to Orange fans.
Stephen Bailey of Syracuse.com wrote an article about this initial depth chart and provides terrific context about the ‘Cuse. For one, there is some shuffling in the Syracuse football secondary, which is expected to represent one of the bright spots on the squad this fall.
Junior Andre Cisco, a pre-season All-American candidate according to multiple national media outlets, will serve as the group’s rover. Another junior with star potential, Trill Williams, moves over to free safety. Additionally, redshirt freshman Garrett Williams is a starting corner.
It’s widely documented that the ‘Cuse offensive line mightily struggled in 2019, and the team’s first depth chart doesn’t provide a ton of optimism.
Bailey says that redshirt junior guard Dakota Davis, a returning starter from last year, is not listed on this inaugural depth chart. That’s a bummer. Bailey notes that Davis “was rehabbing an injury in the fall and not been seen practicing during the fall.”
To replace Davis, “senior tight end/defensive tackle Chris Elmore is slotted to start at left guard opposing redshirt junior Darius Tisdale,” per the Bailey report.
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5 takeaways from Syracuse football's latest depth chart - The Juice Online (the juice; Stechschulte)
Syracuse released their depth chart for Saturday’s opener at North Carolina and there several things jumped off the page.
Syracuse released a Week 1 depth chart for North Carolina. Jawhar Jordan & Markenzy Pierre listed as RBs 1 & 2.
Other notables: Chris Elmore LG1, Stefon Thompson SLB1, Garrett Williams CB1
Not listed: Abdul Adams, Jarveon Howard, Dakota Davis, Chris Bleich, Tyrell Richards
— Stephen Bailey (@Stephen_Bailey1) September 7, 2020
1. The complete absence of Abdul Adams and Jarveon Howard at running back and Tyrell Richards at linebacker.
Adams and Howard combined for almost 700 rushing yards and six scores last season, but are not listed at all. There has been speculation about the duo opting out of the season and their absence certainly lends some support. Richards, a special teams ace with four sacks in his two seasons of play, certainly profiles as a contributor in the inexperienced linebacker corps.
2. The listed starters at guard are Chris Elmore and Darius Tisdale.
After Dakota Davis missed spring football while rehabbing from an injury and Chris Bleich was not granted immediate eligibility (more on that below), Tisdale’s appearance in the starting lineup is not a great surprise, as he was listed as a backup last season. Elmore’s appearance, however, is a shocker, as his experience on the line previously has only been on the kicking unit. I guess we will find out how serious the position change is when he appears in uniform, as his usual number (5) is for eligible players only.
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Orange Watch: Additional NCAA rule adjustments will affect Syracuse football - The Juice Online (the juice; Bierman)
Item: We originally wrote in April spotlighting the initial rule changes for the 2020 NCAA football season and how they would relate to the Orange. Now, the ongoing pandemic has not only caused programs to shut down the sport entirely, but the teams moving forward with the season, such as Syracuse opening up at North Carolina Saturday (12:00 p.m. ET/ACCN), will see additional modifications in an effort to promote the safety and health of all participants competing, and those individuals stationed close to the field of play.
Here’s a look at the pandemic-related rule changes announced this summer, and how they will affect Syracuse at the Dome and on the road against its ACC competition:
*Team Area and Coaching Box – To promote enhanced social distancing, the Team Area will be lengthened from the current configuration between the 25-yard lines and expanded to the 15-yard lines. This will enlarge the Team Area an additional 10 yards on each end of the field, resulting in a 70-yard-wide total team area.
Reaction: The sidelines at the Dome and all ACC venues will be extended by ten yards with additional white field markings to designate the enlarged Team Area. With severe restrictions on exactly who will be allowed on the sidelines (no individual media photographers or videographers, or guests of honor), the extra room encourages coaches to separate position units and not have a large mass of players gathered near the line of scrimmage.
*Pregame Coin Toss – Currently the toss rules allow up to four Captains from each team to be present at the toss of the coin. Additionally, there are typically many additional non-essential people present such as honorary captains, media, photographers, sideline radio personnel, etc. The change for 2020 would be to include only one Captain from each team and the Referee and the Umpire.
Reaction: Under Dino Babers, Syracuse has previously waited until mid-season or later (it was after six weeks of play in 2019) to announce its team captains, instead trotting out game-by-game captains along with selected honorees and photographers to capture the moment. That will not occur this year, so it will be interesting to see who will represent the ‘Cuse each game as its lone representative to watch the coin toss and determine choice of kickoff or receiving.
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Louisville football: Should I(rish) stay or should I(rish) go? (BRL; Hickman)
Louisville football gets a crack at Notre Dame in 2020 – but what happens after that?
When the clock hit zero last season following Notre Dame’s 35-17 victory over Scott Satterfield and the Louisville football program, optimism about what the future could be was already sky high for Cardinal fans- even in a loss.
We all knew that in a little over a year from that point, the Cards were going to get a second crack at the Irish; this time in a place where they had a little magic on their side once before.
About two months ago, the ACC revealed the revised schedule for the upcoming season for football. It was an interesting move that sent ripples throughout the College Football landscape and was another piece to the covid-era puzzle in regards to the season being played.
Games were added and subtracted across all 15 member institutions in an effort to navigate a season that will surely have questions surrounding it.
The conference elected to do away with the Atlantic and Coastal divisions this year and move to a 15 team division with the top two teams competing for the ACC Championship in Charlotte. The league also voted to play an 11 game schedule with 10 of those games being in conference and the 11th against a non-conference opponent. The games are slated to begin the week of September 7th through the 12th and the Championship game is set for either December 12th or 19th.
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Wooten: ACC makes a return in football … maybe | Bladen Journal (bladenjournal.com; Bladen)
Sometime Thursday when Miami takes the field, or perhaps Saturday when Carolina runs into Kenan Stadium, we’ll believe it.
It’s been a long time since a March Thursday morning in the Greensboro Coliseum. There we witnessed the only time the ACC Tournament, our beloved and unrivaled basketball event, has come to a screeching halt. First Clemson and then Florida State disappeared from the floor in what seemed like a forever amount of time before a quarterfinal matchup, then returned for John Swofford’s presentation of the champion’s trophy to the Seminoles.
We drove home, listened to sports talk radio and heard event after event postponed or canceled outright. And it continued the next day, the entire college spring seasons wiped away followed by a long summer hiatus of just about every sport on the planet.
They’ve started coming back, and ACC football joins this week. Maybe. Probably. We’ll believe it when they’re playing.
Carolina hosts Syracuse, Wake welcomes nationally top-ranked Clemson and Duke goes to Notre Dame. That’s ACC football member Notre Dame, by the way, if only for a year. N.C. State at Virginia Tech has already been rescheduled.
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Syracuse Football: Orange at No. 12 in our initial ACC power rankings (itlh; Adler)
Most national and regional ACC pundits think Syracuse football will hover near the league’s basement. We’re a bit more optimistic.
Syracuse football enters the fifth year of the Dino Babers era as the Orange’s head coach when the team travels to No. 18 North Carolina this Saturday for a noon Atlantic Coast Conference clash in Chapel Hill.
Babers is 23-26 on the Hill, and his squad put forth a disappointing 5-7 mark a stanza ago following a 10-3 output in 2018, when the ‘Cuse won a bowl game and finished that term ranked No. 15 in both major polls.
National and ACC observers, by and large, think that Syracuse football is likely to wrap up the 2020 campaign close to the bottom of the conference. The ACC pre-season media poll places the Orange at No. 14 in the league.
In our inaugural conference power rankings for the 2020 stanza, we have Syracuse football a tad higher, at No. 12. Here are the rest of our ACC ratings prior to league battles getting underway.
1. Clemson
Could any other conference group go at the top? The Tigers are No. 1 in the pre-season AP and Coaches top-25 polls. They are a significant contender to reach the College Football Playoff. And Clemson boasts two of the best players in the country, quarterback Trevor Lawrence and running back Travis Etienne.
2. North Carolina
Virtually everyone out there has Notre Dame, an ACC member for just the 2020 term, in the No. 2 spot. I’ll go against the grain and arrange the Tar Heels here. Quarterback Sam Howell, from my perspective, is a Heisman Trophy contender. And he has terrific offensive weapons in wide receiver Dazz Newsome and running back Michael Carter.
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Nat'l Titles by Decade, 1950-2019 (RX; HM)
Nat'l Titles by Decade, 1950-2019
These tweets caught my eye and made me think...
I wondered: what would it look like if we used the current conference affiliation of each team? This benefits the Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC, all of which have added but never lost any teams since 1950. It mostly helps the ACC (although they must give up claim to the Maryland national championship), and it hurts the Big XII (mostly because of losing Nebraska).
Using the NCAA's official list of CFB National Champs, with each team's current conference affiliation, and including Notre Dame in the ACC counts*, we get the following:
| Decade | ACC | B1G | PAC | SEC | XII |
| 2010's | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 2000's | 1 | 1 | 1.5 | 4.5 | 2 |
| 1990's | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 1980's | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1970's | 2.5 | 1.7 | 2 | 2 | 1.8 |
| 1960's | 0.8 | 3 | 2 | 2.2 | 2 |
| 1950's | 1 | 3.5 | 0.5 | 2 | 3 |
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Links, news and rumors - 9/7/20 (RX; HM)
Links, news and rumors - 9/7/20
From the Roanoke Times:
Frustration building over the ACC’s ambiguous cancellation guidelines
I can definitely see where this could cause problems. Hopefully the final version of the ACC document looks a little more like the one from the Big XII...
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Last 2020 schedule completed (RX; HM)
Last 2020 schedule completed
From FBSchedules: Virginia adds Abilene Christian to 2020 football schedule
Now that the non-conference games have all be scheduled and rescheduled, here's what it finally looks like:
| Date | OOC vis. | home |
| 9/10 | UAB | Miami |
| 9/12 | W Kentucky | Louisville |
| 9/12 | Austin Peay | Pitt |
| 9/19 | The Citadel | Clemson |
| 9/19 | UCF | Georgia Tech |
| 9/19 | Charlotte | UNC |
| 9/19 | USF | Notre Dame |
| 9/26 | Texas State | Boston College |
| 10/3 | Jacksonville St | Florida State |
| 10/9 | Campbell | Wake Forest |
| 10/17 | Liberty | Syracuse |
| 10/31 | Charlotte | Duke |
| 11/7 | Liberty | Virginia Tech |
| 11/21 | Liberty | NC State |
| 11/21 | Abilene Christian | Virginia |
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Louisville HS Recruits (RX; HM)
Louisville HS Recruits
A Louisville fan pointed out how Miami, Georgia Tech and Pitt should always field good football teams because of the quality of local high school talent. He's absolutely right about that, but I also think he was selling the local talent in Louisville a little short.
Here are the Louisville city high school football players over the last 4 recruiting cycles who were rated 3-star or better according to 247Sports:
| Year | Rank | Player | High School | Pos | Ht/Wt | Rating | Stars | Team |
| 2019 | 8 | JJ Weaver | Moore Traditional School | SDE | 6-5/240 | 0.8937 | 4 | Kentucky |
| 2019 | 7 | Jared Casey | Ballard | ILB | 6-3/232 | 0.8958 | 4 | Kentucky |
| 2019 | 5 | Milton Wright | Christian Academy Of Louisville | WR | 6-3/200 | 0.918 | 4 | Purdue |
| 2018 | 3 | Tahj Rice | Waggener Traditional | SDE | 6-2/320 | 0.8973 | 4 | Duke |
| 2020 | 3 | John Young | Christian Academy of Louisville | OT | 6-6/277 | 0.8904 | 4 | Kentucky |
| 2018 | 2 | Jairus Brents | Waggener Traditional | CB | 5-10/178 | 0.9122 | 4 | Louisville |
| 2019 | 2 | Stephen Herron Jr. | Trinity | WDE | 6-3.5/238 | 0.9389 | 4 | Stanford |
| 2018 | 1 | Rondale Moore | Trinity | WR | 5-8.5/174 | 0.9123 | 4 | Purdue |
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Kirk Herbstreit on ACC in 2020: 'This league feels different' (2247sports.com; Kosko)
Not only will the 2020 college football season look different but the ACC got a bit of a facelift this season. No divisions and Notre Dame joining for 2020, sign Kirk Herbstreit up.
The ESPN college football analyst joined Packer and Durham on ACC Radio to discuss his love of the conference heading into the season. This year, it’s not just Clemson running the show but a deep and talented conference with intriguing storylines.
Speaking on Monday’s edition of the show, Herbstreit outlined his excitement for the ACC and even picked his under the radar conference contender.
“We were doing our Monday (meeting with GameDay)...and I said you know what would be cool would be, we've got, besides Clemson, got some teams that offer some intrigue,” Herbstreit said. “You've got the blue bloods, the teams people think of on a national level like a Miami with D’Eriq King coming in. You've got Florida State with Mike Norvell coming down. But even Virginia Tech. Are they really ready to turn the corner with Justin Fuente? Then you've got teams like North Carolina and Sam Howell and the athletic ability he has with the potential to score. Everyones talking about Notre Dame coming over this year.
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Forde-Yard Dash: ACC, Big 12 Kick Off Fat-Free Fall (SI; Forde)
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Fourteenth-ranked North Carolina (5) hosts Syracuse, noon Saturday.
Most challenging North Carolina opener since: last year against South Carolina. This will be the Tar Heels’ sixth straight season opening up against a fellow Power 5 opponent. Last season was the first time in that stretch that the Heels won.
What to watch for from North Carolina: How is the secondary? Three Heels defensive backs opted out on the season, leaving some depth issues that could be exposed by a coach (Dino Babers) who doesn’t mind slinging the ball around.
What to watch for from Syracuse: Does the coordinator shakeup get the Orange back on track? After a 10–3 record in 2018, Syracuse was one of the biggest busts of ’19. The Orange went 5–6, with some backsliding defensive no-shows reminiscent of the first two years of Babers’s tenure. There wasn’t much toughness against the run last season.
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North Carolina Football: Top 3 All-ACC candidates for 2020 (satrudayblitz.com; Fiore)
North Carolina football is a legit contender for the ACC title this season and beyond and these guys could become instant stars.
The new Mack Brown era was a big success in his first year back in Chapel Hill. The Tar Heels may have only gone 7-6 in 2019 but there’s legitimate excitement and believe in the program for the 2020 season and beyond.
Brown landed the 13th-ranked recruiting class in 2020 according to 247Sports, the first top 15 class for UNC since 2009.
Also, the record may be a bit misleading, all six of their losses were by one score, if a couple things went the Heels’ way that record would look a lot better. Carolina’s best performance came against Clemson in a very close 21-20 loss. The Heels scored at the end of the fourth quarter and Brown elected to go for two to secure a win rather than kick the extra point and play in overtime. They came up one yard short of knocking off the defending national champs.
That performance was the most exciting when looking at the future of this program. A very young group went to battle against the best football program in the country and fell just short of a win.
The Tar Heels are returning one of the most talented and now experienced rosters in the ACC. According to ESPN’s returning production metric, UNC is returning the ninth-most production on offense of any program in the country. All the credit for this turnaround shouldn’t go just to Brown, his coordinator hires were excellent and have proven to be two of the best in the conference.
Offensive coordinator Phil Longo brought his own air-raid attack to Chapel Hill and helped lead the Tar Heels to a top 25 passing offense. On defense, Jay Bateman led a big improvement with a young group of guys; the Tar Heels’ defense in 2019 gave up 7.6 less points per game and 62.9 less yards a game in 2019 compared to 2018.
The hype around the 2020 North Carolina Tar Heels is for real, this team can win the Coastal division and play for an ACC title. If they’re going to reach those dreams, these three guys are gonna have to be some of the best in the conference at their position
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6 dead Syracuse shopping malls: See what they are now (PS; Moriarty)
News that Amazon is interested in turning empty mall space around the country into fulfillment centers got us thinking: What dead malls in the Syracuse area have found new life?
Turns out, six of them have, either by repurposing the empty buildings or by unleashing the wrecking ball and constructing a totally new development.
Two others — ShoppingTown Mall in DeWitt and Great Northern Mall in Clay ― still await redevelopment. But here’s a look at the six dead malls that have come back from the ashes.
Tri-County Mall
The Tri-County Mall in Baldwinsville was demolished in 2014. The Landings at Meadowood, a 443-unit apartment complex, now stands in its place. Rick Moriarty | rmoriarty@syracuse.com
Opened in 1974 on Downer Street in Baldwinsville, the Tri-County Mall featured Dey Bros., Flah’s and Wells & Coverly as anchor stores. By the early 2000s, though, it was down to just a few retail tenants.
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