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[TexanMark]

Ranking Syracuse football roadtrips for the 2021 season

After a year off from football-related travel, where should you visit this year?

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[corpjet]

As always great job compiling this info, looking forward to the Ohio game for sure and def would love to make it to Blacksburg to cross that stadium off the to do list.

 

[sutomcat]

Ranking Syracuse football roadtrips for the 2021 season

After a year off from football-related travel, where should you visit this year?

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Nice work Mark.

I plan to go to all of these games, except Louisville.

Hot take:

Hot Browns are hot garbage.

Maybe I will visit there again when I start drinking.

 

[TexanMark]

Nice work Mark.

I plan to go to all of these games, except Louisville.

Hot take:

Hot Browns are hot garbage.

Maybe I will visit there again when I start drinking.

I plan to be at all but UL too. I tried to get something going for UL but the interest wasn't there.

UL would be a much better trip in October.

 

[Eric15]

Interesting that he gave Louisville a "1" for travel ease. It's not really accessible for driving for most SU fans, and has a medium sized airport.

 

[Cuseregular]

Ranking Syracuse football roadtrips for the 2021 season

After a year off from football-related travel, where should you visit this year?

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hey who are those fans behind my tailgate set up?! LOL I've honestly never seen them!

 

[TexanMark]

hey who are those fans behind my tailgate set up?! LOL I've honestly never seen them!

Ha ha...paid actors

 

[TexanMark]

Interesting that he gave Louisville a "1" for travel ease. It's not really accessible for driving for most SU fans, and has a medium sized airport.

"He" was me. John did very little on this article.

It was rated for air travel only.
The stadium is literally about 2 miles from SDF.

 

[Eric15]

"He" was me. John did very little on this article.

It was rated for air travel only.
The stadium is literally about 2 miles from SDF.

What I meant to say was... that is one flawless assessment and I loved it.

 

[TexanMark]

What I meant to say was... that is one flawless assessment and I loved it.

You sure you aren't in politics?

 

[sutomcat]

Interesting that he gave Louisville a "1" for travel ease. It's not really accessible for driving for most SU fans, and has a medium sized airport.

I am from CNY.

UL is by far the least attractive venue to visit in the ACC.

It is too far to drive to.
There are no direct flights.
There is nothing close to it I am interested in.
It is cold, the stadium is ugly, the tailgating is only decent and fans are not friendly.
And we have no history or rivalry with them.

Virginia Tech is the second worst but it is (barely) drivable, we do have history with them and Lane had a nice atmosphere when VT used to be good.

 

[JeffCuse]

Great article.

I wish Blacksburg was a couple hours closer to me. Sigh.

 

[Chip]

"He" was me. John did very little on this article.

Did you select the picture with a Penn State shirt?

 

[TexanMark]

Did you select the picture with a Penn State shirt?

John did...

He also left out a few edits...too LOL

 

[storange]

I am from CNY.

UL is by far the least attractive venue to visit in the ACC.

It is too far to drive to.
There are no direct flights.
There is nothing close to it I am interested in.
It is cold, the stadium is ugly, the tailgating is only decent and fans are not friendly.
And we have no history or rivalry with them.

Virginia Tech is the second worst but it is (barely) drivable, we do have history with them and Lane had a nice atmosphere when VT used to be good.

Perhaps I’m biased here ( I was born a short swim from Louisville In Jeffersonville Indiana) Me , my daughter and her friend spent the weekend their and had great time. Excellent food and drink choices all over the place, agree with Tom about stadium. The actual game sucked and the stadium was nothing to rave about. ( It was the weather delay game a few years back )
FSU was disappointing at best. FSU was kind of a sterile atmosphere with the recent struggles of this FBS power.

 

[Chip]

Virginia Tech is the second worst but it is (barely) drivable, we do have history with them and Lane had a nice atmosphere when VT used to be good.

Look at the bright side. You only have to take one road the whole way (with countless tractor trailers and dead deer), and they have a golf course on campus.

 

[Eric15]

Perhaps I’m biased here ( I was born a short swim from Louisville In Jeffersonville Indiana) Me , my daughter and her friend spent the weekend their and had great time. Excellent food and drink choices all over the place, agree with Tom about stadium. The actual game sucked and the stadium was nothing to rave about. ( It was the weather delay game a few years back )
FSU was disappointing at best. FSU was kind of a sterile atmosphere with the recent struggles of this FBS power.

I've personally never been to Louisville but my sister and brother-in-law went to an SU/UL basketball game there a couple of years ago and said the downtown area was wonderful.

 

[Scooch]

As always, thanks for the article Mark!

As much as the Atlantic Division is better in terms of football quality, from a road game/travel standpoint I really wish we were in the Coastal. It is so much easier to get to most of those schools from the northeast areas where alums tend to live, and I find the locales much more attractive.

In my humble opinion...

Miami >>> Tallahassee
Charlottesville >> Louisville
Atlanta >>> Clemson
Durham/Chapel Hill = Raleigh
Blacksburg < Winston-Salem

The ACC was a lifeline, and beggars can't be choosers I suppose, but I wish our division alignment was reversed.

 

[721Comstock]

As always, thanks for the article Mark!

As much as the Atlantic Division is better in terms of football quality, from a road game/travel standpoint I really wish we were in the Coastal. It is so much easier to get to most of those schools from the northeast areas where alums tend to live, and I find the locales much more attractive.

In my humble opinion...

Miami >>> Tallahassee
Charlottesville >> Louisville
Atlanta >>> Clemson
Durham/Chapel Hill = Raleigh
Blacksburg < Winston-Salem

The ACC was a lifeline, and beggars can't be choosers I suppose, but I wish our division alignment was reversed.

Agreed.

Plus - we would have gotten our rotating chance to win the Coastal division by now!!
It's like round robin (or hot potato) over there.
Which beats FSU, FSU, FSU, and then Clemson, Clemson, Clemson, Clemson, Clemson...

 

[HRE Otto IV]

As always, thanks for the article Mark!

As much as the Atlantic Division is better in terms of football quality, from a road game/travel standpoint I really wish we were in the Coastal. It is so much easier to get to most of those schools from the northeast areas where alums tend to live, and I find the locales much more attractive.

In my humble opinion...

Miami >>> Tallahassee
Charlottesville >> Louisville
Atlanta >>> Clemson
Durham/Chapel Hill = Raleigh
Blacksburg < Winston-Salem

The ACC was a lifeline, and beggars can't be choosers I suppose, but I wish our division alignment was reversed.

That and we are more like the teams in the Coastal. FSU, Clemson, Louisville, NC State are very different from SU. Really wish we would split the conference evenly, IF they keep divisions.

Each division should have:

2 small private schools (BC, SU, Wake, Duke). Currently 3 are in the Atlantic.
2 NC schools (UNC, Duke, NC State, Wake). This exists already.
1 Northern school (BC, SU). Both are currently in the Atlantic.
1 Florida school (FSU, Miami). This is in place already.
1 VA school (UVA, VA Tech). Both are in the Coastal now.
1 Western school (Pitt, Louisville). This already is there.
1 Southern school (GA Tech, Clemson). This is set already.

So one of BC or SU needs to move to the Coastal. VA Tech needs to move to the Atlantic. To keep things competitive and not disrupt rivalries you probably need to swap FSU and Miami. Things are unbalanced now and adding VA Tech would make it only worse.

Atlantic
Miami
Clemson
NC State
Wake
VA Tech
Louisville
BC

Coastal
FSU
GA Tech
UNC
Duke
UVA
Pitt
SU

So we would be losing yearly games against Clemson, NC State, Wake, Louisville and gaining GA Tech, UNC, Duke, UVA.

 

[Bayside44]

As always, thanks for the article Mark!

As much as the Atlantic Division is better in terms of football quality, from a road game/travel standpoint I really wish we were in the Coastal. It is so much easier to get to most of those schools from the northeast areas where alums tend to live, and I find the locales much more attractive.

In my humble opinion...

Miami >>> Tallahassee
Charlottesville >> Louisville
Atlanta >>> Clemson
Durham/Chapel Hill = Raleigh
Blacksburg < Winston-Salem

The ACC was a lifeline, and beggars can't be choosers I suppose, but I wish our division alignment was reversed.

Agreed. This set-up would be a lot better if Maryland didn't leave.

 

[HRE Otto IV]

Ranking Syracuse football roadtrips for the 2021 season

After a year off from football-related travel, where should you visit this year?

www.nunesmagician.com

For me this is one of the least attractive road schedules we have had. Hopefully we get a good Bowl game to make up for it.

Ohio- isn't bad but not worth giving up the last weekend of summer for.
FSU- PIA to get to and neither team is good.
VA Tech- the most attractive game IMO especially if we are decent,
Louisville- zero desire to go there especially in November.
NC State- zero desire to go there, but attractive if we are playing for a Bowl game.

It sucks that we have both BC and Pitt both at home. They really should be split. It would give us one Northeast road game each year. Why are we getting BC 3x in a row at home and Louisville 3x on the road?

 

[Scooch]

That and we are more like the teams in the Coastal. FSU, Clemson, Louisville, NC State are very different from SU. Really wish we would split the conference evenly, IF they keep divisions.

Each division should have:

2 small private schools (BC, SU, Wake, Duke). Currently 3 are in the Atlantic.
2 NC schools (UNC, Duke, NC State, Wake). This exists already.
1 Northern school (BC, SU). Both are currently in the Atlantic.
1 Florida school (FSU, Miami). This is in place already.
1 VA school (UVA, VA Tech). Both are in the Coastal now.
1 Western school (Pitt, Louisville). This already is there.
1 Southern school (GA Tech, Clemson). This is set already.

So one of BC or SU needs to move to the Coastal. VA Tech needs to move to the Atlantic. To keep things competitive and not disrupt rivalries you probably need to swap FSU and Miami. Things are unbalanced now and adding VA Tech would make it only worse.

Atlantic
Miami
Clemson
NC State
Wake
VA Tech
Louisville
BC

Coastal
FSU
GA Tech
UNC
Duke
UVA
Pitt
SU

So we would be losing yearly games against Clemson, NC State, Wake, Louisville and gaining GA Tech, UNC, Duke, UVA.

Not to derail this travel thread, but I just hate the zipper divisions in general. They're arbitrary and poorly constructed no matter how one does it, IMHO.

Best case scenario is to scrap the whole thing and go with no divisions using scheduling pods (3 permanent opponents + 5 X 5 rotating over 2 years). But the dummies at the NCAA (and other conferences) seem hellbent on preventing that. Personally, if I were the ACC I'd still do it and dare the NCAA to stop me.

 

[storange]

For me this is one of the least attractive road schedules we have had. Hopefully we get a good Bowl game to make up for it.

Ohio- isn't bad but not worth giving up the last weekend of summer for.
FSU- PIA to get to and neither team is good.
VA Tech- the most attractive game IMO especially if we are decent,
Louisville- zero desire to go there especially in November.
NC State- zero desire to go there, but attractive if we are playing for a Bowl game.

It sucks that we have both BC and Pitt both at home. They really should be split. It would give us one Northeast road game each year. Why are we getting BC 3x in a row at home and Louisville 3x on the road?

I’ve always loved traveling and SU football. I would go to every road game if my financial situation allowed it. But I do agree it’s not the greatest lineup.