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Week 0 in college football gave us a huge upset when Georgia Tech stunned Florida State. We look at the strength of Syracuse's schedule with that as the background.
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What's up, Fizz Nation? I'm Tyler Akin, and we are less than a week away until the first
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game of the 2020-4 Syracuse football season, the Fran Brown era. And much has been made
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this offseason about how easy the Syracuse football schedule is this year. I've written
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about it myself on OrangeFizz.net, I've talked about it on FizzFives, and I do truly believe
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that all things considered, this is an easy schedule for Syracuse. A lot of power rankings
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have it as one of the easiest schedules out of any Power 4 team, and Syracuse does avoid
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playing the Clemsons of the world, the Louisvilles of the world, the North Carolinas of the world
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I was going to say the Florida States of the world, but they did just lose to Georgia Tech
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And that's what I want to talk about, because Georgia Tech plays Syracuse not this week
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but the following week. Game 2, an early-season conference game, and that has turned into
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what I think will be a good barometer for what you should expect out of Syracuse football
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Because although Syracuse has an easy schedule in a lot of ways in terms of not having to
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face too many super high-level, top-10, top-15 caliber opponents, there are a lot of teams
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that were coming into this year, like Georgia Tech, that were good last year and could make
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a leap to a higher echelon. And if Syracuse can beat Georgia Tech, then you look at the
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other matchups on the calendar for Syracuse, NC State, Virginia Tech, Cal, Hittsburg, BC
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that starts to give you a gauge of where Syracuse will stack up against those teams
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If Syracuse struggles against Georgia Tech, then while it's still an easy schedule for Syracuse
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there will likely be a lot of close games, because Georgia Tech, who was a good team
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last year, has clearly made strides with a great performance against Florida State
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over the weekend. And there's other teams. Cal had a great transfer portal, should be
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improved from last year, and who knows what they'll look like moving from the Pac-12 to
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a team, or to the ACC. Who knows what Pittsburgh's going to look like. There are still a lot
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of questions about this schedule, and there could be a lot of 50-50 games. Ohio isn't
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one of them, though, so this should be a win this week. That doesn't mean you shouldn't
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follow along. Make sure to follow OrangeViz on Twitter, and check out our website for
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coverage of that
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