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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3984312, member: 27"]
Those were the days when there weren’t as any bowl slots available.  The teams in the BE with better records took the available bowls and we were left without a place to play,

That game, between SU and a very bad RU team, was the infamous ‘wind bowl’.  The wind was the MVP for RU.  I believe RU recovered not one but two of their kickoffs by simply kicking them into the wind.  They landed around the 30 yard line untouched and an RU player beat all the Syracuse players to the ball to take possession.

We had beaten RU 11 of the last 12 times we played them.  As others have said, it was a huge win for Schiano and a major turning point for the Syracuse and Rutgers football programs.

A day that will live in infamy.

I think the SU players were so embarrassed and angry with their awful performance against Rutgers that they ended up beating a pretty good Notre Dame team pretty easily the following week.

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