See our dream list of 20 schools Syracuse football should schedule: Who's on yours?

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[Guy Fawkes]

I'll do top 5 in tiers

FCS - Low Mid-Major
1. Army
2. Colgate
3. Villanova
4. UB
5. UTSA

BCS
6. Penn State
7. Wisconsin
8. Texas
9. Auburn
10. Michigan

 

[Nick44]

Top 5 for me -

Texas
Georgia
Colorado
Texas A&M
The NY Jets

 

[MSOrange]

Top 5 for me -

Texas
Georgia
Colorado
Texas A&M
The NY Jets

We'd add the Jets but then the critics would come out about the schedule being too easy.

 

[OrangeMojo]

Top 5 for me -

Texas
Georgia
Colorado
Texas A&M
The NY Jets

As a Texas alum and Atlanta resident I'm right with you on the top 2. Agree Colorado would be fun - but the aggies - replace them with Nebraska. I've heard Lincoln is awesome on football weekends. Then UCLA or Cal/Stanford (don't really care which one).

 

[TheCusian]

Mix of winnable games and recruiting and tradition:

1. Rutgers (recruiting back yard, hate the B1G, shut up the Rutgers fans who had 2 good seasons and claim it counts for anything)
2. WVU (rival, play for a trophy, etc)
3. UCONN (Rutgers twin separated at birth, 1 good season but fans think they deserve inclusion in the P5, close by)
4. Army (NY, history)
5. Central Michigan (just for the turd who tried to kill our QB)
6. Small FL school
7. Penn State (once we get momentum and a bit of a jump in recruiting)
8. Colgate
9. Temple
10. Vandy

 

[texacuse]

As a Texas alum and Atlanta resident I'm right with you on the top 2. Agree Colorado would be fun - but the aggies - replace them with Nebraska. I've heard Lincoln is awesome on football weekends. Then UCLA or Cal/Stanford (don't really care which one).

From where I sit a native Syracusan living about an hour from College Station, I can understand how a Texas alum may still wish to downgrade the football experience of the "12th Man" at Texas A&M's home of Kyle Field. In fact, with a son who graduated from UT Law School and another son with an undergrad & MBA from Texas A&M, perhaps I may be more impartial in this than you may be led to believe.

However, after factoring in the 100's of millions of $'s into what has become a virtually new stadium for all potential football fans, the potential program cache of defeating a prime SEC contender on their home turf would be on all merit incalculably beneficial for the 'Cuse. College Station is in the heart of some of the most prime football recruiting territory in the Unites States. For decades, Nebraska has come to Texas for recruits, not the other way around.

Metro Houston to the south (population 7 million), metro Dallas-FW to the north (population 7.5 million) and the hill country of Austin-San Antonio (population of about 5 million), the very watched and relevant SEC network, and the current and future understated 20% population growth per decade would make the experience of playing and winning at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas a not debatable far more valuable experience now and forever into the future than playing and winning in the diminishing relevance of Lincoln, Nebraska might ever be again. There is a reason that the Seattle Seahawks paid the Aggies $M's for the rights to use the 12th man slogan for the Seahawks fans experience.

Coach Dino is also not coincidently the right man to make headway into this incredible college football recruiting mega sized and culturally predisposed hotbed. He has a history recruiting the state of Texas and his similarly mega charged personality and coaching expertise as a natural leader of men, is befitting and complimentary of the requirement to bring this talent toward SU from time to time. Coach Dino has in his capacity the opportunity to generationally change the perception of Syracuse football into the feared OrangeMen once again and be taken seriously not just in my precious hometown of CNY, but also throughout Texas and the south again, just like our national championship team who came and conquered Texas in the Cotton Bowl in some of our best days as a football program. Lets come back to Texas and the SEC again and kill two birds with one stone. If you believe beating LSU is a good prospect, beating Texas A&M would move the needle even more and be respected inside the state of Texas for years, unlike our tie did with UT in '94.

Go Cuse, go 'The Boys of Syracuse' go OrangeMen. I could really use a Hoffman coney white snapper or two about now!

 

[Toga]

University of Phoenix. Virtually guaranteed win.

 

[orange79]

University of Phoenix. Virtually guaranteed win.

 

[OburgOrange]

University of Phoenix. Virtually guaranteed win.

So is Bye . Haven't lost to them yet!

 

[tipphill]

rutgers and maryland for recruiting and wva or psu for rivalry

 

[Ish88888]

Great thread! My top 5 for each level:

FCS/G5: Albany (surprise, Army, Delware, App St. ,UCF.

FBS: Michigan in the dome, Nebraska, miss WVU, UF, and yes, also miss seeing Rutgers in the dome. Tons of juice.

Hey, I had my dream come true seeing LSU in the dome a few years back. Amazing, never thought it would happen. Friggin amazing, seeing UM would be the same feeling

 

[OburgOrange]

Great thread! My top 5 for each level:

FCS/G5: Albany (surprise, Army, Delware, App St. ,UCF.

FBS: Michigan in the dome, Nebraska, miss WVU, UF, and yes, also miss seeing Rutgers in the dome. Tons of juice.

Hey, I had my dream come true seeing LSU in the dome a few years back. Amazing, never thought it would happen. Friggin amazing, seeing UM would be the same feeling

I'm old enough to remember being at the dome when UM was here. Brady in relief of some hotshot QB , ... can't remember his name. Ugh

 

[orange79]

I'm old enough to remember being at the dome when UM was here. Brady in relief of some hotshot QB , ... can't remember his name. Ugh

Drew Henson, right? He was 16-28-1 for 151 yds. Brady was 5-10 for 26 yds.

 

[DMDMD]

Vandy, Northwestern, Stanford would be at the top of my list. Schools we should be associating ourselves with as often as possible.

 

[OburgOrange]

Drew Henson, right? He was 16-28-1 for 151 yds. Brady was 5-10 for 26 yds.

What a memory!

 

[orangepassion]

How about Rutgers chief Rival-Norfolk State?

 

[Hoo's That]

As a Texas alum and Atlanta resident I'm right with you on the top 2. Agree Colorado would be fun - but the aggies - replace them with Nebraska. I've heard Lincoln is awesome on football weekends. Then UCLA or Cal/Stanford (don't really care which one).

It's always been said that on gameday, the stadium in Lincoln becomes the 3rd largest city in Nebraska.

 

[NateW]

Penn St
WVU
ND
Buttgers

That's it. That's the list.

 

[CousCuse]

UMASS ( The next "Boise State'), Temple , Rutgers, Oregon, Texas Tech.

 

[Trueblue25]

Vandy, Northwestern, Maryland, Illinois, Indiana, WVU and Kentucky.

 

[donniesyracuse]

It really amazes me how much people can talk about scheduling.

 

[OttoMets]

From where I sit a native Syracusan living about an hour from College Station, I can understand how a Texas alum may still wish to downgrade the football experience of the "12th Man" at Texas A&M's home of Kyle Field. In fact, with a son who graduated from UT Law School and another son with an undergrad & MBA from Texas A&M, perhaps I may be more impartial in this than you may be led to believe.

However, after factoring in the 100's of millions of $'s into what has become a virtually new stadium for all potential football fans, the potential program cache of defeating a prime SEC contender on their home turf would be on all merit incalculably beneficial for the 'Cuse. College Station is in the heart of some of the most prime football recruiting territory in the Unites States. For decades, Nebraska has come to Texas for recruits, not the other way around.

Metro Houston to the south (population 7 million), metro Dallas-FW to the north (population 7.5 million) and the hill country of Austin-San Antonio (population of about 5 million), the very watched and relevant SEC network, and the current and future understated 20% population growth per decade would make the experience of playing and winning at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas a not debatable far more valuable experience now and forever into the future than playing and winning in the diminishing relevance of Lincoln, Nebraska might ever be again. There is a reason that the Seattle Seahawks paid the Aggies $M's for the rights to use the 12th man slogan for the Seahawks fans experience.

Coach Dino is also not coincidently the right man to make headway into this incredible college football recruiting mega sized and culturally predisposed hotbed. He has a history recruiting the state of Texas and his similarly mega charged personality and coaching expertise as a natural leader of men, is befitting and complimentary of the requirement to bring this talent toward SU from time to time. Coach Dino has in his capacity the opportunity to generationally change the perception of Syracuse football into the feared OrangeMen once again and be taken seriously not just in my precious hometown of CNY, but also throughout Texas and the south again, just like our national championship team who came and conquered Texas in the Cotton Bowl in some of our best days as a football program. Lets come back to Texas and the SEC again and kill two birds with one stone. If you believe beating LSU is a good prospect, beating Texas A&M would move the needle even more and be respected inside the state of Texas for years, unlike our tie did with UT in '94.

Go Cuse, go 'The Boys of Syracuse' go OrangeMen. I could really use a Hoffman coney white snapper or two about now!

Not sure what I love more, this post or the arrogance of TAMU fans.

Either way, I agree completely. (Would love to see Lincoln, too, but College Station is an awesome football experience.)

 

[Brian Orange]

Ole Miss would be my choice. Classic south, The Grove, cool town. Sneaky easy drive from Memphis to get there.

 

[shantydaze]

Living in Wisconsin, most of my choices would be selfish and based on the ease of the drive to the game. The Wisconsin series is a win/lose as it pits my undergrad versus my grad schools. Moving beyond that, I would like to see games at stadiums/cities I would like to visit. It is a big plus if I could spend Saturday visiting a campus and a Sunday going to an NFL venue.

1. Tulane - I want to get back to New Orleans and cannot make the LSU game this year.
2. Colorado - A late November day where I could ski on Friday, watch Cuse on Saturday and the Broncos on Sunday.
3. Ole Miss - Would love to see a game at the Grove. Bonus points if the game is at the same time Ole Miss is decimated by sanctions.
4. UCLA - Rose Bowl, although I would rather see a game there as a result of the Orange making the CFP .
5. Northwestern - Closest venue other than Wisconsin and without the conflicted emotions at the end of the game.

From an East Coast perspective, I would like to see a mix of UConn, Rutgers, Maryland and Penn State every year. Unlike some of the ACC teams, we do not have an annual game against an in-state rival, so I would not mind starting a rotating regional rivalry game each year.

While Army and Navy games would be okay, I do not think there is any real benefit if we win, and there is definitely a negative perception if we lose. I would only want them on the schedule when we have GT also on the schedule because it would give SU a chance to play and practice against an option twice in one season.