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Pepperoni takes its name from "peperoni"—with one "p"—an Italian name for a pepper. In Italy, what Americans call pepperoni is known as "salame piccante"—spicy salami. Pepperoni is a dried sausage made of a mixture of pork, beef, and spices, often including peppers. The name pepperoni began being used following World War I, primarily in Italian-American communities. At this time, pepperoni was primarily used as an appetizer, eaten on cured meat plates.
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Syracuse football opponent preview: What to know about Connecticut (DO; Liberman)
Syracuse (3-0, 1-0 Atlantic Coast) welcomes Connecticut (1-2, 0-1 American Athletic) to the Carrier Dome on Saturday at 4 p.m. In Week 3, Syracuse took down Florida State, 30-7, defeating the Seminoles for the first time in 52 years. Meanwhile, the Huskies struggled to finish off Rhode Island, edging out the Rams 56-49.
Here’s what to know about UConn heading into this week’s matchup:
All-time series: UConn leads, 6-2
Last time they played: Syracuse toppled the Huskies in East Hartford, 31-24, in SU head coach Dino Babers’ first year at the helm. Amba Etta-Tawo broke the Syracuse single-game record for receiving yards, netting 270 on 12 catches. Eric Dungey posted a career day as well with 407 passing yards, three total touchdowns and no turnovers. The Orange never trailed and pulled away for good in the third quarter.
The UConn report: The Huskies are an extremely young and inexperienced team on both sides of the ball. When UConn played Boise State on Sept. 8, five true freshmen started on defense and not a single upperclassman.
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Syracuse football vs. Connecticut: See our picks, make your predictions (PS; Staff)
BRENT AXE
Syracuse 56, Connecticut 10
UConn's defense is 129th in college football, otherwise known as dead last, in point allowed (55.7) and yards allowed (673) per game, Syracuse overwhelms the very young Huskies defense and moves to 4-0 for the first time since 1991. Bonus for SU fans, the forecasted high is only 60 degrees on Saturday in CNY so the sauna will be turned off in the Dome.
STEPHEN BAILEY
Syracuse 59, Connecticut 17
The Orange continues to roll, setting up a matchup of undefeateds in Week 5 against Clemson. The only real key for SU will be escaping the game without significant injury. On the Huskies side, think about how inept rebuilding Florida State looked last weekend and replace their four- and five-star players were two- and three-star guys. It's going to get ugly fast.
NATE MINK
Syracuse 58, Connecticut 13
Syracuse cleans up against a Connecticut team that is undergoing a complete rebuild under former SU assistant Randy Edsall.
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Syracuse football roundtable: Looking back at the first 3 weeks (DO; Staff)
For the first time under Dino Babers, Syracuse (3-0, 1-0 Atlantic Coast) has won its first three games of the season. Last week Syracuse defeated Florida State, 30-7, for the first time since 1966. In the game, the Orange defense held the Seminoles to 240 yards and redshirt freshman Tommy Devito threw for 144 yards and a touchdown while also rushing for a score.
Below, The Daily Orange football beat writers answer questions headed into Syracuse’s 4 p.m. Saturday matchup with Connecticut (1-2, 0-1 American Athletic) at the Carrier Dome.
How much can you read into the FSU win?
Andrew Graham: A little bit. The name “Florida State” carries a lot of weight and the Seminoles roster was talented as always, but the team Syracuse beat on Saturday was horrendous. FSU’s offensive line looked lost, the run game stalled and the defense crumpled. That said, Syracuse recognized this and steadily beat back the Seminoles. In years past, I don’t know if SU did that. Syracuse’s most impressive facet on Saturday was the defense, allowing just seven points to an Atlantic Coast Conference opponent for the first time under Dino Babers. Ultimately, how mundane the win was speaks volumes more than the opponent.
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'Cuse Countdown Previews Syracuse's Matchup with UConn | CitrusTV (citrustv.com; video; Adzima & Spector)
After starting 3-0, can Syracuse football keep the ball rolling against a familiar foe? CitrusTV’s Tim Leonard gets Corey Spector and Mike Adzima’s keys to the game against UConn and the analysts predict the final score.
Syracuse vs. Connecticut Fearless Prediction, Game Preview (cfn; Fiutak)
One Reason Why Syracuse Will Win
The UConn defense is the worst in college football at coming up with third down stops. The Huskies are allowing teams to convert 63% of their chances, they’re giving up a boatload of first downs, and the defense is getting destroyed for 375 yards per game.
The Syracuse defense is only second behind Miami in college football at coming up with third down stops. Western Michigan, Wagner, and Florida State combined to convert just eight of their 42 chances to move the chains.
While the Orange offense is set up to bomb away, it’s not quite cranking up the big-time passing game yet. It’s been effective, and it’s not making any big mistakes, but it’s not putting up huge yards.
This week, Eric Dungey – who appears to be healthy after getting beaten up by FSU – is going to give it a go, but no matter who’s under center, the O should work.
One Reason Why Connecticut Will Win
The running game is doing an okay job. The offensive front isn’t awful, and the Huskies are taking advantage wot 220 rushing yards in the opener against UCF, and 265 yards and four touchdowns last week in the win over Rhode Island.
Okay, so the defense wasn’t even close in any game so far, but there’s just enough of an offensive spark – at least last week – to think the attack might be ready to start moving the chains a little more.
Could Syracuse be looking ahead to Clemson next week and Pitt to follow? The secondary can be bombed on and the offensive line will give up plays in the backfield from time to time – UConn has to take advantage of every opportunity.
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What’s Going To Happen
The Syracuse offense will go off, the UConn defense will be lousy again, and it’ll look like an Orange basketball score in the fourth quarter.
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Syracuse Football: Orange need to avoid looking ahead to Clemson (itlh.com; Patrick)
The Syracuse football team needs to make sure their focus this week is on beating UConn and leaving the Carrier Dome with their fourth win of the 2018 season.
For fans of the Syracuse football and basketball teams, unexpected losses are nothing out of the ordinary. The Orange’s basketball program has had more of these in the recent past, but that is just due to their consistent success under head coach Jim Boeheim.
Well this week, the Syracuse football team has the opportunity to begin a season with four straight wins for the first time since 1991. All they have to do is defeat a UConn Huskies team that barely got a win over Rhode Island (an FCS school) last week.
It seems like an easy task for the Orange, but there is a slight chance that the team could be caught looking ahead to next week’s big matchup with top ranked Clemson.
Syracuse has a chance to end up ranked among the top 25 teams in the nation this season for the first time since 2001. If the Orange somehow end up losing to UConn at the Carrier Dome on Saturday, any hopes of a top 25 ranking in 2018 can likely be kissed goodbye.
This week, Syracuse just needs to worry about one team and one team only. Even if that team is one that everyone believes the Orange will defeat with their eyes closed, the focus still needs to remain on beating the Huskies on Saturday.
Upsets happen all the time in college football and Syracuse has not reached a point yet where they are immune to them, even at home.
So the Orange just need to come out this week and take care of business like they have during every game this season. Put a bunch of points up on the board, pressure the opposing quarterback, and force turnovers.
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Syracuse Football: UConn breakdown (Behind Enemy Lines) (itlh.com; Esden Jr)
The Syracuse football team attempts to achieve 4-0 for the first time since 1991. The UConn Huskies stand in the way of that possibility.
This has ‘trap’ game written all over it for the Syracuse football squad. The Orange are coming off of an emotional win over the Florida State Seminoles, beating them for the first time since 1966. Next week they play the Clemson Tigers in Death Valley. Softly sitting between is little old UConn who is a 27.5 point underdog.
That’s usually the recipe for disaster. But this Orange team isn’t letting the hype get to them, they seem ready to continue their dominance. While on the other hand, this UConn team has been tough to watch. The defense has been abysmal, but the offense much better than originally expected.
The Orange have a rare opportunity to extend their winning streak to 4-0 on the season, if they accomplish the feat it’d be the first time since 1991 on the hill. The media have preached ‘bowl or bust’ for Dino Babers, but it seems like inside the locker room they have much higher expectations than that.
To accomplish all their hopes and dreams they’ll have to vanquish a familiar foe in the UConn Huskies. Their former Big East rivals may be down on their luck lately, but they have a ton of talent. So we decided to sit down with our UConn football insider, Adam Giardino to learn more about this team as we go ‘Behind Enemy Lines’ with five burning questions ahead of this game.
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Will Syracuse be ranked next week? (tigernet.com)
Will Syracuse be ranked next week?
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New Britain Herald - UConn football preparing for loud Carrier Dome at Syracuse (newbritianherald.com; Ostrout)
There are few sporting arenas where sound travels better than the Syracuse University’s football and basketball home.
The Carrier Dome - a building named for an air conditioning company that itself strangely has no cooling system - can be a loud place during a game. It’s even louder when the Orange, in this case the school’s football team, are having a good season.
To that end, the UConn football team went through most of a recent practice in the Shenkman Center on their campus with raucous crowd noise pumping through its speaker system.
The Huskies (1-2), who will face Syracuse (3-0) Saturday in the dome, tried to mimic some of the issues they might have communicating with each other in the game.
“We did that last year but I’m sure the freshmen were like ‘What the heck is this?’ ” UConn running back Kevin Mensah said with a smile after the workout.
UConn has already had trouble dealing with noisy opposing crowds. In its 62-7 loss to Boise State Sept. 8 the Huskies committed an unbelievable six false start penalties, several by junior tackle Matt Peart. It was one of primary reasons UConn’s offense struggled so mightily in the loss.
“Hopefully we had our one moment where we went into that kind of environment and didn’t handle it as well as we could have. They have that experience,” UConn coach Randy Edsall said. “I would hope we’d be in good shape Saturday and not have the false starts we had a couple weeks ago.”
It seems the fake crowd was louder than the Boise crowd, which might be more than enough to prep the Huskies.
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UConn Football’s Kicking Unit is "Best Operation in the Country" (theuconnblog.com; Connolly)
UConn football coach Randy Edsall spoke on Tuesday to discuss the Huskies’ game against Syracuse this week. Here are some news and notes from his weekly presser.
Injuries Mount in Secondary
Last week against URI, UConn lost two members of the secondary to injury in Tahj Herring-Wilson and Marshe Terry. Those two did not practice today while Tyler Coyle also went down with an undisclosed injury during practice. However, Edsall did not want to discuss the topic so early in the week.
“We’ll know by the end of the week who’s playing, who’s not playing,” he said. “No need to talk about injuries today. Just wait until the end of the week and see where we’re at.”
Selective Memory
Later in the game, a URI player ran out of bounds into the UConn sideline and straight at Huskies’ tight end Zordan Holman. Holman braced himself and the Ram player ended up on the ground. No penalties were called and Edsall jokingly said he didn’t quite remember the play.
“My memory goes every once in a while. I think coaches have that problem,” Edsall said. “I saw something happen over there and I looked at him. We talked about it.”
The coach used the incident as a way to praise Holman and described him as a key glue-guy on the team.
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ACC Football Giftastic Power Rankings: Week 3 | Sports Channel 8 (sportschannel8.com; Moose)
Florence made her presence known in the cancellation of a few games this week. Some surprises. Some not surprises. Here are the ACC Football Giftastic Power Rankings: Week 3
1. Clemson,
W vs Georgia Southern, 38-7
Yawn.
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No. 23 BC's visit to Purdue headlines ACC's 4th week (pilotonline.com; AP)
GAME OF THE WEEK
No. 23 Boston College at Purdue. The Eagles (3-0) have climbed into the national rankings for the first time in a decade behind league preseason player of the year AJ Dillon and a passing game that accounted for five long touchdown passes in a victory at Wake Forest. Could there be a letdown? Up next is one final nonconference test at desperate Purdue (0-3), which has three losses by a combined eight points yet still has the nation's No. 19 offense, averaging nearly 521 yards per game.
BEST MATCHUP
No. 3 Clemson's defensive line vs. Georgia Tech's option offense. The Tigers have an embarrassment of riches up front, with the entire defensive line selected to the preseason all-ACC team. Clemson (3-0) has allowed an average of 89 yards rushing, ranking 16th in the nation and second-best in the conference. Not surprisingly, Georgia Tech averages an ACC-best 392 yards on the ground with Paul Johnson's trademark triple-option offense.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS
Wake Forest (2-1) has not allowed an opponent from the Bowl Subdivision to reach the red zone, keeping both Tulane and Boston College outside the 20-yard line. But a closer look at the numbers indicates trouble. The Demon Deacons needed overtime to beat Tulane and gave up 41 points in a home loss to BC. They allowed eight touchdowns of at least 27 yards in those two games, with BC quarterback Anthony Brown throwing five TD passes — including three from 40 or more yards out.
LONG SHOT
North Carolina State (2-0) might have its hands full as a 5-point favorite at Marshall. Both teams are coming off unexpected weekends off, with Hurricane Florence forcing cancellations of last week's games, so there's always the possibility of rust. The Thundering Herd can be tough to beat in Huntington, West Virginia, winning 83 percent of its home games — though only one of those victories has come against a power-conference team. And Marshall still has WR Tyre Brady, a Miami transfer who had 248 yards receiving against N.C. State last year and should test the Wolfpack's rebuilt defense.
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ACC Panic Room: NC State's missed opportunity? (wralsportsfan.com; video; Brownlow, Ovies)
Lauren Brownlow and Joe Ovies ponder the mysteries of what could have been between NC State and West Virginia.
ACC Football Rx: Vanderbilt - 9/20/18 (accfootballrx.com; HM)
Would any SEC team ever leave that conference voluntarily again? Sewanee, Tulane and Georgia Tech all did in the past, but what about now? Is there any school that feels so out of place that it might turn its back on tradition (and huge payouts) and make the jump?
If there is such a school, it's probably Vanderbilt. Vandy is the only private school in the SEC, and the academics stand out as probably the best in the league - but athletic success has been difficult for the Commodores. Vanderbilt routinely ranks near the bottom of the SEC in terms of attendance [1] and revenue - not to mention conference standings in football.
I've seen rumors that Vanderbilt administrators say they aren't going to spend any more money on football (though I haven't see than in writing). What is known:
In an August 3rd report, multiple sources told The Tennessean university administrators undercut efforts to raise funds for a stadium project to focus on building other campus structures. Athletics fundraisers were prohibited from soliciting certain donors already targeted by university fundraisers. Vanderbilt is amid a $600 million capital project, which includes no athletics facilities. [LINK]
Could it be that Vanderbilt may be getting ready to step down from football participation in the SEC - perhaps with plans to join the ACC? Would the SEC let them go?
I'll answer the second question first: yes, I think it would. Everybody knows Vanderbilt is a square peg in the round SEC - they just don't fit (other than being, you know, Southern). Besides, if they did leave, that would open up a spot for the league to pursue a more desirable Big XII team such as Texas or Oklahoma, perhaps in conjunction with 2 other teams from among Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, or Kansas. Tell me how much SEC fans would miss Vandy if they added 3 of those teams...
As to Vandy themselves: while I have no insider information whatsoever, there IS some smoke, so I wouldn't be surprised if there was a little fire to go with it. For example, look at who Vandy played this weekend - Notre Dame. What business does Vanderbilt have playing Notre Dame? better yet, why would the Irish want to play Vanderbilt? Could this be a case of a private school (ND) essentially interviewing Vandy so that there's no chance of a public "request for information"?
Then there's what happened in Nashville: due to hurricane concerns, Virginia moved its home game versus Ohio - but of all places, why Vanderbilt Stadium? Things that make you say "hmmm".
College Football TV Ratings (sportsmediawatch.com)
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WEEK 3 COLLEGE FOOTBALL RATINGS
RTG | VWRS (+ Stream) | GAME | CONF | DATE/TIME | NET |
4.2[td]7.232M (7.328M) | OSU-TCU | B1G, B12 | 9/15, 8:00p | ABC | |
3.5[td]5.936M | LSU-AUB | SEC | 9/15, 3:30p | CBS | |
2.3[td](4.109M) | ALA-MISS | SEC | 9/15, 7:00p | ESPN | |
2.2[td]3.346M (3.434M) | OKLA-ISU | B12 | 9/15, Noon | ABC | |
1.8[td]2.950M | USC-Texas | P12, B12 | 9/15, 8:20p | FOX | |
1.9[td]2.913M (2.972M) | BYU-WISC | IND, B1G | 9/15, 3:30p | ABC | |
1.4[td]2.108M | VANDY-ND | SEC, IND | 9/15, 2:30p | NBC | |
1.2[td](1.869M) | FSU-SYR | ACC | 9/15, Noon | ESPN |
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The Chef and The Cook: A place to savor the entire menu (Dining out review) (PS; Paventi)
How often do you go to a restaurant and say, "We'll have one of everything?"
The four of us visiting The Chef & The Cook on a recent Saturday evening carefully deliberated the option over a round of cocktails, finally deciding that we would go Into the Weeds, the restaurant's journey through its 26-dish menu.
It was a big decision. The cost is $275 per table, regardless of the number of people in each party. That means it's one of the priciest dinners in the Syracuse area. In our effort to cover the full spectrum of Central New York's dining landscape, we sometimes visit higher costs restaurants. This was one of those times.
The price and the amount of food are not for the faint of heart or stomach. After more than three hours, our table was winded. The party of eight at the table next to us, who also paid $275 for the meal, had difficulty finishing as well.
Into the Weeds is a culinary adventure for the customer and kitchen. It's a marathon of eating for the table showcasing the individual styles and techniques of chef-owners Jason Jessmore, DeAnna Germano and Mark Germano.
The 26 dishes comprising the menu are divided into two columns. Dishes from The Chef's side feature more gastronomic, modern approaches to dishes. Calamari steak ($10) is typically found on menus at Italian or Asian restaurants, finished in traditionally according to the cuisine. Here, it is char-grilled, drizzled with lemon-chili oil, imparting bitter and spice cooled by an earthy olive oil custard. Cherry tomatoes and pickled cucumber added bright and acidic flavors.
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