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

[OttoMets]

I'm stunned that no one has mentioned Liberty.

 

[SUFaninNJ]

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

You'd get certain people pissed that we'd be playing in Met Life again.

 

[SUFaninNJ]

Can we just copy our responses from the most recent time we've had this thread?!

UCLA
Georgia
Army
UMASS
UCONN

A couple places I'd love be to see SU play, followed by three teams SUshould beat. I have no desire to see SU play Ped State or Rutgers again.

 

[SU68]

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!

Thank you for writing Orangemen!

 

[SU68]

Given the author's premise of where he'd like to go because of the stadium or city/area, I don't understand why a couple of posters want to go to the UConn or Rutgers dumps.

 

[JKinPhilly]

Since I now live in Utah I would love to see us play BYU or Utah in the near future. Colorado would also work.

 

[Trueblue25]

Indiana/Illinois/Temple/Purdue/Maryland



Beat down the half a-- p5 programs, with exception to Maryland but not really, that occupy sacred recruiting grounds that we could easily tap with Dino and W's.

 

[CousCuse]

Rice Owls in Houston would be good too.

 

[cusefan88]

Always WVU. It's a trophy game damnit!

 

[Eric15]

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

I'm pretty sure we lost to them several times under Greg Robinson.

 

[Moontan]

Vandy, Kentucky (H&H for both football and hoops), Northwestern, Stanford, FAU/FIU (2-for-1), GSU (2-for-1).

 

[TexanMark]

Vandy, Kentucky (H&H for both football and hoops), Northwestern, Stanford, FAU/FIU (2-for-1), GSU (2-for-1).

Hard to get FAU/FIU as a 2 for 1. We should try...as money talks. Upstate NY is not as bad a future student recruiting ground as you think..So FAU/FIU might be interested in coming north.

GSU would be another great choice. It will be interesting to see if their fans actually attend games at the remodeled Turner Field. I predict they will get a nice crowd of 15-18k on gameday. They could fill our void of games in the ATL area.

Last thought: the AD needs to occasionally get creative and throw in SU Basketball as an enticement to sign some schools up for FB games in the future. Don't overuse it...but keep it in your hip pocket.

Kentucky in both sports is a no-brainer. So is IU.

 

[Marroniac]

University of Phoenix. Virtually guaranteed win.

Every game for them is a home game. Don't count out the effect of the 12th man.

 

[All4SU]

Colgate
Cornell

Army
Navy

Maryland
Michigan State

 

[Cusester]

I've always regretted buying out of the return game with Wyoming. That was not TGD's finest moment. Great skiing, sightseeing and Denver are all a short drive away. would be a fun trip.

 

[orange79]

Colgate
Cornell

Army
Navy

Maryland
Michigan State

I'm pretty sure the Ivies do not play FBS teams.

 

[Consigliere]

I'll do top 5 in tiers

BCS
6. Penn State

I'm a huge proponent of rekindling traditional rivalries, playing in iconic stadiums and playing teams with great tailgating and within relatively easy driving distance. But if we ever play or mention playing they whose name shall not be spoken again it will be too soon. Sick of the denials and the head in the sand delusional fan base. Sick of the cultish worship of the criminal Paterno. Far better options with rivals that exhibit values that align with ours.

 

[All4SU]

I'm pretty sure the Ivies do not play FBS teams.

In my dreams they do.

 

[Hoo's That]

Colgate
Cornell

I'm pretty sure the Ivies do not play FBS teams.

In my dreams they do.

The rule is a D-1A team is not allowed to count a game against a D-1AA team that doesn't give scholarships toward bowl eligibility.

 

[MiniCuse]

home/home with Navy
home/home with Army
at Hawaii
West Virginia
Texas

 

[Eric15]

Nebraska.

It's a game that would fill up the Dome and provide lots of excitement for our fans, but is also completely winnable at home.

 

[Pyle]

I'm stunned that no one has mentioned Liberty.

Liberty might not be a 'dream' game but it is absolutely a necessary game.

 

[Trueblue25]

Nebraska.

It's a game that would fill up the Dome and provide lots of excitement for our fans, but is also completely winnable at home.

Them, Iowa, michigan st., ucla, arkansas, tennessee and texas are all winnable at the done imo

 

[Scooch]

Miami
Duke
UNC
UVA
Pitt
Va Tech

Every year.

 

[HRE Otto IV]

I will pick my fav per conference:

AAC: Temple since easy road trip, non hostile crowd, we can win both home and away, help within our recruiting area
ACC Coastal (since it is like they are a different conference): VA Tech for history
B12: WV for history
B1G: MD see Temple. Penn State and Rutgers are trash.
CUSA: FIU for recruiting
Indy: Army for the trip and winnable games
MAC: Miami for recruiting and winnable games
MWC: UNLV for the trip
P12: UCLA for the stadium
SEC: Vandy winnable games
Sunbelt: Georgia State for recruiting and winnable games
Honorable mention: Northwestern for the trip and winnable games