For reference:
Syracuse Historical Scores
Notable ups:
9/20/80 SU 36 Miami U. 24 First game in Dome. A Red Hawk, (they were still the Redskins then) goes 88 for a score. Joe Morris takes the kickoff at the 5 and….
9/17/83 SU 35 Northwestern 0 (They had a mouthy QB named Sandy Schwab)
11/12/83 and 11/19/83 SU 21 BC 10, SU 27 W Va 16 Consecutive wins over 9-3 bowl teams to get a winning record.
9/29/84 SU 17 Nebraska 9 The only time we've ever beaten a #1 team.
11/3/84 SU 13 Pittsburgh 7 The end of an 0-11 stretch vs. the Panthers and the beginning of a 16-1-1 stretch for us.
11/16/85 SU 41 BC 21 The Eagles cover Scott Schwedes with a linebacker and he sets a record for receiving yards that lasted 31 years with 249. Afterward, we accept a bi to a bowl game for the first time in 6 years but the second time in 18 years. Mac used "bowl credibility" to recruit the Cherry Bowl class who, after a redshirt year, moved in in 1987 and turned everything around for us.
9/5/87 SU 25 Maryland 11 Our greatest Dome season begins with a long pass on the first play, which became a trademark of this team. This ends a 1-9-1 stretch vs. the Terps.
10/17/87 SU 48 Penn State 21 Starting with the 80 yarder to Rob Moore, we pound the defending national champs, building up a 41-0 lead.
We send the reserves in too soon and suddenly it's 41-21
. Mac sends the starter back in and the close it out in style with a long scoring drive that chews up most of the remaining time.
11/21/87 SU 32 West Virginia 31 Michael Owens goes 65 with a screen pass. Moose Johnson goes through the whole state of West Virginia to score. Pat Kelly catches one in traffic from Donnie Mac, who then pitches to Owens for the winner while Jim Ridlon checks into Hutchings.
9/21/91 SU 38 Florida 21 We were used to winning now and it took something special to impress us. This was something special, from KDD's opening kickoff return off the reverse to the end, when we were about to score again. Steve Spurrier admitted his team had been 'whipped'. The gators had been coming off a 35-0 win over Alabama, who won all their other games and the national championship the next season. Florida, who had been ranked 5th, didn't lose again until Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl.
9/12/92 SU 31 Texas 21 Marvin Graves doesn't bring down the house but he does bring down the fence. Texas was only 6-5 that year but any victory of as blue blood is a good thing.
10/11/95 SU 22 West Virginia 0 A goal line stand followed by a 96-yard Donovan McNabb to Marvin Harrison pass, the longest pass play in SU history. I can still remember seeing the ball at the height of its arc, Marvin breaking away from his defender underneath it and I knew what was going to happen. Those are the most exciting plays - where you can see what will happen before it does.
9/28/96 SU 52 Virginia Tech 21 The rivalry with the Hokies was just warming up and we ran them out of the Dome.
11/16/96 SU 42 Army 17 The Cadets came in unbeaten and wanting to prove themselves by beating SU. But the forward pass had been invented.
11/14/98 SU 28 Virginia Tech 26 McNabb to Brominski on the last play. Ripley's Believe It or Not: In winning 28-26, we outgained the Hokies 420-152. In losing 0-62 in Blacksburg the next year, they outgained us 120-411.
11/28/98 SU 66 U of Miami 13 In a dream sequence of a game, we did this to the school that won five national championships from 1983-2001. It was Donovan McNabb's last game in the Dome and the last time two ranked football teams played each other in the Dome.
9/30/00 SU 42 Brigham Young 14 Yeah, they are still a mid-major, sort of a 4A team in baseball parlance and were only 6-6 that year but it's another score that looks good on the historical resume.
9/22/01 SU 31 Auburn 14 First game in the Dome since 9/11. And yeah, that was Auburn Dwight Freeney destroyed.
11/9/02 SU 50 Virginia Tech 42 in OT. The newspaper had a great shot taken from right behind the interception that ended it, with both the SU player and the Hokie receiver waiting for the ball to arrive. Our guy got it.
12/6/03 SU 38 Notre Dame 12 Walter Reyes x-rays for 5 touchdowns as the Orange destroy the most famous brand name in the sport. They haven't come back since - until this year!
11/21/09 SU 31 Rutgers 13 Mr. Marrone, your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to beat Rutgers, our former doormat who have enjoyed beating us 9-31, 7-38, 15-38 and 17-35 in the last four seasons.
10/21/11 SU 49 West Virginia 23 We blow out the #11 Mountaineers to go 5-2 and need just one more win to get to a bowl game, just like now.
11/10/12 SU 45 Louisville 26 We blow out the #11 Cardinals to go 5-5. But this time it's the first of four consecutive victories to end the season - and the Marrone Era - including another blow out of West Virginia, this time in the Pinstripe Bowl.
10/15/16 SU 31 Virginia Tech 17 Six years ago Dino got his first big win, over our old pals, the 17th ranked Hokies and got his first national press with the locker room celebration.
10/13/17 SU 27 Clemson 24 The modern version of "the Nebraska game" as we take down the #2 ranked tigers to go 4-3 and need only two more wins to make it to a bowl. As in 2011, we didn't get any but it was a foreshadowing of things to come.
9/15/18 SU 30 Florida State 7; 9/22/18 SU 51 Connecticut 21; 10/27 SU 51 NC State 41; 11/9 SU 54 Louisville 23. Our 2018 "revenge" tour.
11/30/19 SU 39 Wake Forest 30. Trill Williams runs to glory to cap off a weird, disappointing season.
9/3/22 SU 31 Louisville Another payback game against the Cardinals. Hey! these guys look pretty good.
9/17/22 SU 32 Purdue 29 We win a wild one against one of the better teams in the Big Ten.
