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Welcome to the Start of Rosh Hashanah!

Rosh Hashanah takes place on the first day of Tishri, the seventh month in the Hebrew religious calendar. The name means "beginning of the year" in Hebrew, and it is also celebrated as the Jewish New Year, as it is the start of the new year on the Jewish civil calendar. It takes place 163 days after the start of Passover, and is the first day of a ten day period of self-examination and repentance called Yamim Noraim, which ends with Yom Kippur. It is observed by Jews throughout the world and is a public holiday in Israel.

Some celebrate Rosh Hashanah for just a day, but for many, it lasts for two days. It is a day of rest and prayer, where only a limited amount of work can be done. Many people of the Jewish faith take the day off from their jobs, and much time is spent in the synagogue. It is also a day of judgment, where God judges people on their deeds from the past year, and people ask for forgiveness from others for their past deeds as well. A shofar, made from the horn of a ram or another animal, is blown to symbolically wake up people of the Jewish faith and to alert them to and prepare them for God's judgment. In addition, the day is a time of remembrance when the creation of the world is commemorated.


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'PERFECT STORM': 35 years ago, a middling Syracuse team stunned No. 1 Nebraska. This is their story. (DO; Edelman)


A sold-out crowd of 50,248 fans went to see Syracuse, a team that for the past two years, built enough credibility to think it could hang with one of college football’s premier programs. It’d become one of the Orange’s most anticipated games in decades.

It’s 2019. Syracuse is hosting No. 1 Clemson in the Carrier Dome and the Orange are 28-point underdogs. Some think SU can pull it off. Others stay realistic. But one statistic jumps out: Syracuse was 1-10 all-time against No. 1-ranked teams.

Upsets and blowouts live in Orange folklore, but time-and-time again Syracuse failed against the NCAA’s best. Except once.
Before the program-changing upset of then-No. 2 Clemson in 2017, before the two-point conversion that sealed the undefeated season in 1987, there was a 6-5 Syracuse team that for one day, on Sept. 29, 1984, completed one of college football’s greatest upsets.

“There wasn’t anyone, anywhere who thought that we could win that game,” Syracuse’s second all-time leading wide receiver Scott Schwedes (‘87) said, “except for the hundred guys or so that were on our team.”
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Nebraska and Syracuse were both considered in the top tier of college football in 1984. The problem was, SU was on its way out and the Cornhuskers were on their way up. The Orange hadn’t won more than eight games in 17 years. Nebraska rode a 21-game regular season win streak into 1984.

The Orange visited Lincoln, Nebraska five games into the 1983 season to a crowd of 76,382 fans. When SU players walked into Lincoln Airport, they couldn’t stop seeing Cornhusker red. Red walls, scarlet red cabs and even a red Pac-Man machine. “We were awestruck,” Schwedes said.

On the way to one of SU’s practices leading up to the Saturday kickoff, the Orange’s bus broke down. On the field, the red reigned over the Orange. Tight end Marty Chalk (‘84) caught a pass over the middle before halftime — one of the few plays for gain — and got clobbered by a defender, breaking his helmet.

“[Nebraska’s] aspiration was to be the best team to ever be on a college football field,” Schwedes said.
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Syracuse football will finally win every nonconference game in 2020 (we think) (PS; Mink)

Syracuse football is 3-2 after a 41-3 victory against Holy Cross.

With a week-and-a-half off before a Thursday night trip to North Carolina State, this week’s stock watch takes a look at the players and themes rising and falling heading into the next opponent.
Stock up: Next year’s nonconference schedule

A quick consult with the media guide yielded a stunning fact.

Syracuse has never won all of its nonconference games in the same season since it left its status as a football independent and joined the Big East.

SU went undefeated in nonconference play in 1993, defeating Ball State, East Carolina and Cincinnati, but it tied Texas that season.
This year, Syracuse finished the nonconference portion of its schedule at 3-1 for the second-straight season.
Many fans believed effectively swapping Notre Dame for Maryland this year was the ticket to SU’s first clean nonconference sweep.

It’s easy to dismiss the importance of going unbeaten in the nonconference if losses are to college football blue bloods with national title hopes. Syracuse had been scheduling quite a bit of them over the years. Sometimes, those losses did nothing to derail a Big East championship season. In the rebuilding years of the previous decade, they possibly kept SU from obtaining bowl eligibility. At the very least, it made that road tougher to hoe.

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Orange take down Holy Cross at home | The NewsHouse (thenewshouse; Wallman)

Saturday’s showing at the Dome, unfortunately, was not as electric as last week for the Western Michigan game. However, Syracuse fans still left satisfied as the Orange had a field day with the Holy Cross Crusaders en route to a 41-3 victory.

Tommy DeVito and the Orange offensive attack came out of the gate hot, picking up where they left off last week with a 63-yard drive in just 1 minute and 38 seconds. The drive ended with a 14-yard catch from Aaron Hackett.

The Crusaders had trouble throughout the entire game gaining any traction against the Syracuse defense, especially in the first quarter.

The Crusader offense had some promising plays but tended to lose steam immediately following big gains.

In the first quarter, they were suffocated by the Orange defense, leading to a barrage of 3-and-out series.
On the second drive for the Orange, Moe Neal carried the ball for four yards. Yet it wasn’t just a four-yard run. Neal surpassed 2,000 career yards for Syracuse with the scamper.

Neal now joins 22 other running backs in Syracuse football history to have touched this mark.
The drive ended with a punt, which was fumbled by the Crusaders and picked up by the Orange, leaving them on the enemy 17-yard line. DeVito immediately took advantage, throwing a strike to Trishton Jackson who similarly was picking up his momentum from his huge performance against the Western Michigan Broncos last week.

Towards the end of the quarter, Syracuse’s Sterling Hofrichter nailed a 52-yard field goal to increase those 14 points to 17, finishing the quarter with a shutout.

The only scoring for the Crusaders came at the beginning of the second period when their kicker Derek Ng hit a 48-yard field goal.

Other than that kick, the Holy Cross offense couldn’t muster up anything else, leading to their third loss on the year.
The Orange had a relatively quiet second quarter as well, where DeVito seemed to be looking heavily in Trishton Jackson’s direction early on.

Their fifth drive started with a 23-yard gain for Jackson, which lead to a series of rushing gains up the middle from Moe Neal and Abdul Adams. The drive was capped off with a 19-yard rushing score up the middle from Adams. The Orange held their lead at 24-3 for the rest of the half.

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Rutgers fires Chris Ash, who was once reported as a candidate for Syracuse football (PS; AP)

Chris Ash’s tenure as Rutgers coach is over after three-plus seasons that resulted in only three Big Ten victories.

Athletic director Pat Hobbs announced Sunday that Ash had been fired four games into his fourth season, with the Scarlet Knights showing little progress. Rutgers (1-3, 0-2 Big Ten) was embarrassed 52-0 by Michigan on Saturday. The Scarlet Knights went 1-11 last season and have not won a Big Ten game since 2017, losing 14 straight to conference foes and 16 in a row to Power Five teams.

Ash was a candidate for the SU football coaching job in 2015, according to a report. Syracuse eventually hired Dino Babers.
The 45-year-old Ash posted an 8-32 record, including a 3-26 mark in the conference Rutgers joined in 2014, two years before Ash was hired.

"We appreciate Chris's dedicated efforts on behalf of our football program, our department and our University," Hobbs said in a statement released by the school on Sunday afternoon. "This change is especially difficult because of the steadfast commitment that Chris and his family have made to our student-athletes. Progress has been achieved in many areas, but, unfortunately, that progress has not been realized in the field of play. As such, it is in the best interest of the program to make a change."
Hobbs also announced offensive coordinator John McNulty has been fired and tight ends coach Nunzio Campanile will serve as interim head coach for the remainder of the season. Rutgers will host Maryland on Saturday.
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Tommy DeVito throws four touchdowns as Syracuse football rolls - The Juice Online (the juice; Stechschulte)

For the second straight game, quarterback Tommy DeVito tossed four touchdown passes, this time powering Syracuse to a 41-3 home victory over an overwhelmed Holy Cross team. The Orange (3-2) led the game by at least two touchdowns for all but the first 6:35 of the game and more than tripled the FCS Crusaders (1-3) in total yards, 429-138.

The SU defense was particularly tough in the second half, allowing their guests just 31 yards after the break. The first Holy Cross first down after halftime did not come until after the halfway point of the fourth quarter.

After their defensive mates forced a Crusader punt on their first possession, the Syracuse offense needed less than 100 seconds to drive 63 yards for a score. Tommy DeVito found a wide open Aaron Hackett, who coasted in from 14 yards out, to cap the drive. Andre Szmyt booted the extra point for a 7-0 Orange lead just over three minutes into the action.

SU was forced to punt on their following possession, but Aaron Bolinsky caused a fumble on the return and Tyrell Richards pounced on the ball at the Holy Cross 17. DeVito connected with Trishton Jackson on a post route on the next play for a score and Szmyt’s extra point made it 14-0 with 8:25 left in the first. Just over six minutes later, punter Sterling Hofrichter filled in for Szmyt and hammered home a 52-yard field goal to push the Syracuse lead to 17-0.

Holy Cross matched that field goal just over a couple minutes into the second quarter, but the Orange took away any Crusader momentum by marching for another touchdown on their next drive. Abdul Adams had the scoring honors, as he blasted through an alley on fourth-and-four for a 19-yard touchdown run. Hofrichter tacked on the conversion for a 24-3 lead less than five minutes into the second. That score held to halftime.

Shortly before the middle of the third quarter, Sean Riley returned a punt 34 yards to set up SU with a short field. Syracuse ground out 19 yards before their drive stalled at the Crusaders’ eight and they settled for a field goal attempt from Szmyt. His 26-yard effort from inside the left hash was true, nudging the Orange lead to 27-3.
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Clemson Football: UNC victory reminiscent of Pitt, Syracuse losses in previous years (rubbingtherock.com; Spencer)

The Clemson football team came away with a 21-20 victory over UNC Saturday. The game is reminiscent of a couple of losses suffered in previous years.

The Clemson football team came away with an ugly victory over the North Carolina Tar Heels Saturday afternoon in Kenan Stadium.

The Tigers certainly didn’t play up to their potential and allowed North Carolina a shot a winning the game late in the match up.

As a matter of fact, North Carolina was just a two-point conversion away from taking the lead with just a little over a minute to go in the ballgame.
Looking back at the victory, it was certainly reminiscent of a few Clemson football games from previous seasons:

  • 2016: Pittsburgh (43-42 loss)
  • 2017: Syracuse (27-24 loss)
  • 2018: Syracuse (27-23 win)
The Tigers came into those games as heavy favorites. However, they weren’t necessarily focused on the task at hand and in the cases of 2016 and 2017, they lost the game.

The Pittsburgh loss in 2016 was at home in November with Deshaun Watson at the helm.
Though many Clemson football fans want to credit the two Syracuse games (a loss in 2017, a close win in 2018) to injured starting quarterbacks, the truth is that the Orange were battling the Tigers way before Kelly Bryant or Trevor Lawrence went down with an injury.

It just seems like every season, the Clemson football program has a scare like this. The 2016 team is somewhat similar to this year’s Tiger team. The Tigers in 2016 just seemingly slept walked through a bunch of games. They barely beat NC State earlier in the season. Finally, the Pittsburgh loss was the wake-up call they needed. They kicked into full gear and went on a tear through the postseason, eventually winning the National Championship.

The difference? This team came away with a win, they’re still undefeated.
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VIDEO: Syracuse football routs Holy Cross - The Juice Online (the juice; video)

Tommy DeVito passed for four touchdowns to four different receivers, the Syracuse defense held Holy Cross to 18 yards rushing and the Orange defeated the Crusaders 41-3 Saturday. But DeVito, who was 19 of 31 for 269 yards, left the game in the fourth quarter with an apparent injury.

ACC Football: Suddenly interesting again, because of one game (augustafreepress.com; Graham)

A funny thing happened on the way to UVA meeting Clemson in the ACC Championship Game in December in Charlotte.

That something: North Carolina.

Now, granted, UNC (2-3, 1-1 ACC) is the ACC’s version of Jekyll and Hyde. The Tar Heels, under Mack Brown, in his first year in his second stint in Chapel Hill, have lost three straight, including a home loss to Appalachian State.
But Carolina also has wins over South Carolina and Miami.

And then, there’s the matter of that 21-20 loss to Clemson on Saturday.

Yeah.

Nobody wants to count moral victories, but …

Clemson needed to stuff a two-point conversion try with 1:17 to go to hold off the Heels, who held the defending national champs to 331 yards total offense.

Now the jury is back out on Clemson, who had all but had its ticket punched to Charlotte before the opening kickoff of the 2019 season last month.

Trevor Lawrence (61.8 percent completion rate, 8 TDs, 5 INTs in 2019) is suddenly a question mark, and tailback Travis Etienne has a relatively pedestrian 462 yards on the ground through five games, and considering 205 of those yards came in the 52-14 season-opening win over Georgia Tech, well …

And then, Virginia, favored to win the Coastal. The ‘Hoos outplayed Notre Dame most of the way on Saturday in South Bend, but five turnovers led to 28 Irish points in a 35-20 win.

The turnovers were the direct result of awful offensive-line play from the UVA front, which surrendered eight sacks to a Notre Dame defense that had recorded four sacks total in its first three games.

Virginia is 2-0 in ACC play, with a win on the road at defending Coastal champ Pitt, but what had looked at the beginning of the summer like a weak schedule is not at all that anymore.
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It was another week of explosive plays, dynamic runs, deep throws and great catches in the ACC. Sit back and watch a montage of the touchdowns scored from this week's ACC games.

Virginia Tech vs Duke: Yeah IT HAPPENED Fixes are Needed (gobblercountry.com; Fahvaag)

Well, that happened. It was probably bound to, and given the tone coming from more than a few people I spoke with at work and in my limited social life, expected. We got trounced by a peer. Not only that but David Cutcliffe saw fit to rub salt into the wounds by keeping his starters in, and scoring more points even as the chance for any rational comeback ended. Besides changing my mind about Cutcliffe’s level of class and sportsmanship; nothing else changes in my analysis.

Remember I spoke of the darker side of the 20th anniversary of the National Championship run? Well, this is it; unrealistic expectations. The “game” (meaning the business) of college football has changed immensely since 1999. The amount of money is astounding, and the big cash machines with their Conference Networks, money deals, and the huge attention to the NFL Draft have militated against the relatively amateur nature of the League in 1999. If you all didn’t notice, there were lots of “weird” games this weekend. Clemson nearly lost to Carolina. UVA was completely thrashed by Notre Dame, though the Hoos put up an interesting 1st half. The Irish looked like they just got tired of it, unlimbered the other arm, and then proceeded to pound the Cavaliers into the turf.

So this is the fire and fury that happens when the perfect storm, appears on the horizon as a puffy bank of clouds. Well the clouds aren’t so puffy, and the results are more than alarming; even for those of us willing to give Fuente the six year chance that we thought it was going to take to get the restoration done.

How does this program get off the bottom? Like all things that happen in stressful conditions, it’s going to depend greatly on who is in charge and how they operate. Currently the biggest problem is that the three necessary elements of a successful operation are all not moving in the same direction. Any operation involving human beings involves; planning, staffing, and execution. If any one of those elements is off, the operation begins to run poorly. If all three are out of kilter with each other, the entire enterprise collapses. Right now, all three are in serious trouble.
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5 takeaways from BC football’s 27-24 loss to Wake Forest (boston.com; Hass)

COMMENTARY
Boston College had a chance Saturday to earn its biggest win of the season to this point against an undefeated and explosive Wake Forest team.
The Eagles overcame an early 10-point deficit to tie the game heading into halftime, and they trailed by three points with 6:39 remaining, but the Demon Deacons’ ability to possess the ball and make key plays when they mattered most was ultimately the difference.

BC racked up 536 yards on offense, compared to 440 for Wake Forest, but the Demon Deacons were 17 of 24 on third down while the Eagles were 2 for 12. That trend was ultimately too much for the Eagles (3-2) to overcome, and they fell, 27-24, to the Demon Deacons (5-0) in a game they’re disappointed they couldn’t seize.

.@WakeFB leaves Chestnut Hill with the 27-24 win!#GoDeacs
— ACC Digital Network (@theACCDN) September 29, 2019

It was the seventh-best day of total offense of the Steve Addazio era, and BC is now 12-1 when finishing with 500-plus yards as a team.

“If somebody said to me yesterday, ‘You’re going to have this many yards, will you take it?’ Hell yeah, I would have taken that,” Addazio said. “Yeah. What we have to find out is just how we have one more point than they do at the end of the game. I think we can dissect where we could have had a couple.”

Here are some thoughts on a back-and-forth battle that could have gone either way.

The disparity on third down was the main difference.

Statistics can often be misleading, but in this particular case, the numbers speak for themselves. BC could have potentially overcome either its own inefficiency on third down or Wake’s success in that area, but trying to win a game when both are so alarmingly in the opposition’s favor isn’t easy.

The Demon Deacons’ last drive of the game was a microcosm of the whole afternoon. A stop would have given BC the ball back with plenty of time, down by three, but Wake Forest converted on third down three straight times.

Wake eventually punted, but by that point, the Eagles only had 28 seconds and had to start from their own 5-yard line. It would have taken a miracle, and there was no such luck despite a valiant and creative effort as time expired.

In the third quarter, Wake had a drive that lasted 20 plays, which was tied for the longest in program history. The Eagles’ defense couldn’t make plays when it had to, as Wake’s delayed handoffs and height in the receiving corps both paid dividends.
“That’s one thing,” defensive back Brandon Sebastian said. “We have to get off the field on third down.”

21/33 | 345 total yards | 2 TDs
Jamie Newman continues to make his mark on the ACC!#GoDeacs | @WakeFB @jlmn12_ pic.twitter.com/ocpSF2tYef
— ACC Digital Network (@theACCDN) September 29, 2019

On offense, the Eagles had their chances as well. Early in the second quarter, trailing 10-0, BC had a chance to score a touchdown, but Kobay White dropped a catchable pass on third down and BC settled for a field goal.

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Take of the week: Pump the brakes on the Duke football hype train (dukechronicle.com; Adler)

As Duke football currently sits in second place in the ACC's Coastal Division, behind only No. 23 Virginia, you’d be tempted to believe that the Blue Devils turnaround is well ahead of schedule. You’d be naive.

Make no mistake, what the Blue Devils have accomplished thus far in 2019 has been impressive. They have covered the spread against every team not currently ranked No. 1 in the nation, cruising to a 3-1 start.
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However, Duke's impressive first quarter has seemed to bring about lofty goals for the rest of the season thanks to exceedingly low expectations at the start of the year.

Duke has covered as 27 point favorites against an FCS team in N.C. A&T, 6.5 point favorites facing a poor Group of Five team in Middle Tennessee, and as 2.5 point underdog away when they beat a Virginia Tech team that is no longer like the dominant program of the early 2000s. This all suggests that Vegas has warmed up to the idea of a better Blue Devil squad, but even so, one metric sees this year's Duke team as just mediocre.

SP+, the brainchild of ESPN's Bill Connelly, is a predictive ranking system that judges teams based on their tempo and the competition they have faced, with the goal of sorting out which schools are for real and which are just beating up weaker opponents. Out of 140 schools, Duke ranked in the 80s to begin the year, a spot that found them surrounded by many smaller schools. They now sit at No. 44, nowhere near the level of a team that some say could compete for an ACC Championship berth.

WEEK 6 SP+ RANKINGS

* Bama: baaaarely No. 1
* The top 10: all unbeaten
* BOTTOM 5: UTEP, UMass, BGSU, Akron, UTSA
* Biggest risers: Cincy, NW'ern, Vanderbilt, Minnesota, Houston
* Biggest fallers: Marshall, North Texas, Va Tech, Troy, Navyhttps://t.co/5siy3h7rPX

— Bill Connelly (@ESPN_BillC) September 29, 2019
This ranking puts the Blue Devils around Power 5 teams like Maryland and Florida State, programs that are nearing internal collapse. In terms of their ranking in the conference, Duke comes in at third in the Coastal, well behind the leader, Miami, at No. 31.
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College football bowl projections: A one-loss Clemson would likely miss College Football Playoff (cbssports.com; Palm)

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Around the ACC: Week 5 Recap (fromtherumbleseat.com; Tankersley)

Holy Cross - 3 | Syracuse - 41
Man, Syracuse needed a couple easy weeks in a really bad way after losing back-to-back games to Maryland and Clemson. The Orange now go into their bye week with a two-game winning streak before getting back into ACC play. Tommy DeVito had a big day through the air with four touchdowns to four different receivers. The defense also pitched a near shutout, holding Holy Cross to just 115 total yards of offense and three points.
Syracuse is on a bye this week.

Delaware - 14 | Pitt - 17 #goacc
And you thought the ACC Coastal couldn’t get any worse. You fool! The Fightin’ Blue Hens gave Pitt everything they could handle and would have had a chance to try for a game-winning drive, but they got called for a roughing the kicker penalty that gave Pitt a first down, allowing them to run out the clock. Delaware actually led this game for almost the entire third quarter! For some reason, Kenny Pickett didn’t play today, despite being dressed, but Nick Patti did a decent job filling in, throwing for 271 yards and two touchdowns. It was Pitt’s two turnovers that nearly cost them this game though.
Pitt plays again this week at Duke.

Georgia Tech - 2 | Temple - 24
Le sigh. We all know what happened here. There are a few candidates for the #goacc Moment of the Week, but I’m going to stick with Geoff Collins electing to not challenge the play where Ahmarean Brown looked like he caught a deep pass inside the 10-yard line and decided to punt instead. #goacc
Georgia Tech plays again this week against North Carolina.
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Virginia drops to No. 23 in AP Poll after ND loss (streakingthelawn.com; Darney)

There’s a new No. 1 team in college football as the Alabama Crimson Tide took over the top spot in the AP Poll. Clemson fell to No. 2 after struggling on the road at North Carolina and only escaping with a win after Coach Mack decided to gamble with a two-point conversion instead of tying the game.

Virginia dropped from No. 18 to No. 23 after its 35-20 loss on the road to No. 10 (now No. 9) Notre Dame. The 5-0 Wake Forest Demon Deacons joined the rankings for the first time this season at No. 22, giving the ACC three ranked teams.
Other movement at the top includes Ohio State jumping LSU to get into the No. 4 spot, and Notre Dame switching places with Florida.

Arizona State, Oklahoma State, and SMU all joined Wake as newcomers to the poll this week. To make space for that quartet, a pair of Pac-12 teams — Cal and USC — fell out of the rankings, along with Kansas State and Michigan State.

Here are the full rankings:

AP Poll - Week 6
RankTeamPrevious Rank

1Alabama2
2Clemson1
3Georgia3
4Ohio State5
5LSU4
6Oklahoma6
7Auburn7
8Wisconsin8
9Notre Dame10
10Florida9
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It's official: ACCN is on AT&T U-Verse (RX; HM)


It's official: ACCN is on AT&T U-Verse

It's official:
TV UPDATE

ACCN is now available on @ATT @Uverse and AT&T TV NOW. Join us this weekend for some football!
— ACC Network (@accnetwork) September 27, 2019

So what does this mean for the ACC? Glad you asked! Here's an updated distribution table for potential subscribers (typically I think sports conferences get around 80% of the potential market):

Distributorsubscribers*
DirectTV18.7
Charter/Spectrum15.8
Dish Network9.6
Verizon/FiOS5.74
Altice4.6
Cox4.5
ATT Uverse3.7
Sling TV2.4
Hulu TV2.0
DirectTV Now1.5
YouTube TV1.0
PlayStation Vue0.8
TOTAL SIGNED UP70.34
Comcast22.1
Frontier1.30
Mediacom0.80
Windstream0.36
RCN0.33
Cable ONE0.30
TOTAL NOT SIGNED UP25.19

* NOTE: all subscriber numbers are in millions.

Really leaves just one noteworthy "fish in the sea" -- Comcast.
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Analysis of Latest Polls - 9/29/19 (RX; HM)

Analysis of Latest Polls - 9/29/19

First, let's look at the AP and Coaches polls side-by-side... then I'll tell you what's wrong with them from an ACC point-of-view!


AP Top 25Coaches Poll
RKTEAMRKTEAM
1Alabama(29)1Alabama (29)
2Clemson(18)2Clemson (30)
3Georgia(4)3Georgia (1)
4Ohio State(7)4Oklahoma
5LSU5Ohio State
6Oklahoma6LSU
7Auburn7Auburn
8Wisconsin8Florida
9Notre Dame9Wisconsin
10Florida10Notre Dame
11Texas11Penn State
12Penn State12Texas
13Oregon13Oregon
14Iowa14Iowa
15Washington15Boise St
16Boise State16Washington
17Utah17Utah
18UCF18Michigan
19Michigan19UCF
20Arizona St20Wake Forest
21Oklahoma St21Texas A&M
22Wake Forest22Virginia
23VirginiaT23Memphis
24SMUT23Michigan St
T25Texas A&M25Oklahoma St
T25Michigan St
Others receiving votes:Others receiving votes:
26California26California
27Memphis27SMU
28Appalachian St28Arizona State
29Army29Army
30MissouriT30Minnesota
T31BaylorT30Baylor
T31Colorado32Appalachian St
33Minnesota33Colorado
34USC34Duke

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Clemson vs UNC wins 3:30 TV slot (RX; HM)

Clemson vs UNC wins 3:30 TV slot

Not a lot went right for Clemson this Saturday. They nearly lost to UNC, winning by a single point and, as a result, losing the #1 spot in both the AP and Coaches polls to Alabama. However, the Tigers beat the Tide in another important battle - for head-to-head TV ratings!
ABC Outdraws Multiple Competitive Networks in Late Afternoon WindowABC’s telecast of Clemson at North Carolina (3:30 p.m.) earned a 3.1 overnight, the highest-rated game of the day in the late afternoon window across any network. The rating for Clemson’s 21-20 victory trailed only ABC’s SNF (Ohio State/Nebraska)
That says a lot when you consider the competition:
Clemson at N CarolinaABC3:30 PM
Virginia at Notre DameNBC3:30 PM
USC at WashingtonFox3:30 PM
Ole Miss at AlabamaCBS3:30 PM
Yes, in a time slot featuring an SEC West battle in Tuscaloosa on CBS and a ranked-vs-ranked game at Notre Dame on NBC (not to mention a pretty high profile Pac-12 contest on Fox), the Clemson vs. UNC game on ABC came out victorious!

SEC fans: please stop telling me how your conference dominates TV ratings in the 3:30 pm time slot. Your teams have the benefit of a national broadcast on CBS every week - but here we have a head-to-head, SEC vs. ACC, and the ACC teams won out.
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Syracuse Football: Kendall Coleman is savoring every moment of senior season (itlh; Esden Jr)

Syracuse football defensive end Kendall Coleman is savoring every moment of his senior season. Here are all the emotional details.

Kendall Coleman is one of several seniors on the 2019 Syracuse football team.

With the Orange now five games into the season (3-2) we are nearly halfway through the final season of Coleman’s collegiate career.

After the latest game vs Holy Cross, Kendall was asked if he’s cognizant of the moment and that his college career is nearly over:

“Oh definitely. I’m not going to even lie to you guys, I teared up watching the highlight video heading into this game. It just kind of hit me, like man, we’re only going to have so many more of those. This is really special to me. There has been a lot of change in myself and a lot of change in this program since I first got here. Syracuse holds a very special place in my heart, so just like you said I’m trying to savor every moment.”


It’s been a really crazy road for Coleman. He was born and raised in Indiana and was highly touted coming out of high school.
He then arrives on the Syracuse campus and as a freshman plays in all 12 games and starts 11 of them. That doesn’t normally happen and just goes to show you the work ethic of Kendall to make that kind of impact so quickly.

Each year of Kendall’s career he’s gotten exponentially better as a player both on tape and statistically. That all culminated in an explosive 2018 season where he tied for the team lead in sacks with 10 and his team went 10-3 for the first time since 2001.

So far this season Kendall and teammate Alton Robinson have gotten off to a slower start than anticipated. Through five games he’s only tallied two sacks and his teammate Alton Robinson also only has two sacks on the season.
In that same presser, Kendall was asked what has been missing this season from the pass-rushing duo and he provided a very candid response:

“A lot of teams have game-planned against us this year and that’s something we’re still trying to deal with and get used to. Last year everyone was game-planning for Chris Slayton. With our names being on the front page of the scouting report this season is something we are learning and growing through and still working on.”

A very mature and introspective response, although you should expect nothing less from Kendall Coleman. He’s obviously a very talented football player who many believe has a professional future in the NFL if he wants it, but he’s more than just a football player.

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Syracuse Football: Dino Babers addresses kicking controversy (itlh; Esden Jr)

Syracuse football dealt with a kicking controversy on Saturday. Head coach Dino Babers provided some insight and what it all means moving forward.

Syracuse football has incredible depth at a variety of positions in 2019.

It’s what the kids call a first world problem. Although I’m not sure even Orange fans knew about the latest surplus.

Late in the first quarter with Syracuse up 14 facing a fourth and seven from the Holy Cross 34 yard line, Dino Babers sent out the field goal unit.

Heading into this season Orange fans were led to believe they had the best kicker in all of college football in Andre Szmyt. In 2018 he had a storybook season from an unknown walk on to Lou Groza Award winner, which is annually doled out to the nation’s best placekicker.

Yet when Babers sent out the field goal unit, Szmyt wasn’t walking onto the field, instead Syracuse’s punter Sterling Hofrichter was lining up for the kick.

A few moments later the dome erupted because not only did Sterling drill a 52-yard field goal, but it would’ve been good from 60 yards out.

After the game Babers was asked whether or not he has a kicking controversy on his hands and what went into the decision:

“Sterling has the strongest leg on the team. Andre has the most accurate leg I’ve ever seen. It was one of those kicks where I go eh can Andre hit it? Eh maybe. But we knew Sterling could get it there. So we just went with Hofrichter. He practices it all the time and he has a really strong leg. It was what a 52-yarder? How far did it go out the back? (10 yards). See hmm? He has a strong leg.”
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What does the Central New York dining scene need? Here are 8 suggestions (PS; Pucci)


Syracuse has come a long way since Italian restaurants, meat and potatoes and little else made up the majority of the restaurant options. Cuisines that were once grouped together and dismissed under the misguided (and frankly, racist) guise of “ethnic food" now stand on their own. Not only do many Central New York diners know what pho is, they have their opinions on which Vietnamese restaurant makes the best.

Syracuse may never be New York City or Los Angeles, but our dining scene has seen great strides in recent years. Here are eight more additions and changes I think would take it to the next level:

A Turkish restaurant
Syracuse has Syrian, Iraqi and a whole host of other Middle Eastern restaurants, but a dedicated Turkish restaurant has remained elusive and following the closure of Istanbul in Ithaca in 2018, Central New York as a whole has a lack of options. There’s no reason why meze can’t have its time in the small plate spotlight, or why menemen, the silky dish of just-set scrambled eggs studded with tomatoes and peppers, isn’t a brunch menu staple.
I could spend a lifetime eating Iskender kebab, the decadent dish of cubed pide bread topped with shaved doner kebab meat (typically beef or lamb) and a buttery tomato sauce before being finished with a hefty dollop of thick yogurt and a splash of sizzling brown butter. Granted, it would be a short lifetime, but a happy one.
Khachapuri

Khachapuri, the Georgian bread of cheese, egg yolk and butter.

A Georgian restaurant
At face value, modestly-sized Central New York might not seem able to support a restaurant that focuses entirely on the cuisine of this former Soviet state. But there’s a reason why adjaruli khachapuri, an oval-shaped bread filled with a pool of melted cheese, butter and egg yolk that diners mix at the table and rip off pieces of the bread to dunk into like a pizza-fondue hybrid, has become an Instagram star. Plus, that’s the kind of high-calorie food you need to stay warm in the winter, something we’re all too familiar with in Central New York.

That fact that it doubles as the perfect drunk food is just a bonus.
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I held that game over my Dads head for years.. I was home from college wanted to go to the game , but he said we had no chance and refused to go.. Ended up playing golf and came off the course late with SU leading and watched the end in the club house.. he never lived it down.
 

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