Amari Odom threw for five touchdowns in his first game as Syracuse's starting quarterback, and the Orange (2-2, 0-2) held off a furious late rally from UConn (2-3) to win 42-41 in overtime at Connecticut on Saturday.
2030 running back Sa’Mhad Williams is one of the emerging prospects in his class. Last week he received his first offer from Rutgers, and a few days later, he received his first ACC offer from Syracuse.
The 1-2 Syracuse Orange take on the 2-2 UConn Huskies on Saturday at Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field. Both teams are looking to bounce back from losses, while Syracuse enters the matchup coming off a bye week with extra time to address its early-season struggles.
Syracuse had 20 players leave via the transfer portal in the offseason. We've gone through 10 players in Part I of our transfer portal tracker. Here are the remaining 10 players and how they are doing with their new teams.
Fran Brown didn't step up to the podium on Monday trying to hide from where Syracuse sits. Dropping back-to-back games heading into an early bye week will always stir up outside noise.
Fran Brown got slightly testy Monday when grilled by the media on a number of topics following the only open weekend of the 2026 season, sitting with a 1-2 / 0-2 mark.
Syracuse has landed its first blue chip recruit of the Gerry McNamara era. On Friday, 2027 five-star wing Moussa Kamissoko committed to the Orange, he announced on social media.
When Fran Brown arrived in Central New York, he built his program's identity on three underlying factors: competition, accountability and earning every blade of grass.
The 1-2 Syracuse Orange lost 27-13 to the 3-0 Pitt Panthers on Thursday, and one of the biggest concerns after the loss was their continued struggle at quarterback.
Syracuse lost by two touchdowns in a road game against ACC rival Pitt last night and Orange head coach Fran Brown was fuming throughout the loss. There was one moment during the game where Brown started yelling the face of one of the referees.
Disaster. That is perhaps the only word that could capture the Syracuse-Pittsburgh game, though the chaos had little to do with what unfolded between the lines.
Syracuse got a true tune-up, while Cal had a fight on its hands that didn’t go the right way. The Bears opened up at home with an old-school Pac-12 type of matchup against UCLA, but they were run over late in a 45-24 loss.
Upon entering the 2026 college football season, the consensus around Syracuse was that they would be finishing as one of the worst teams in the ACC. After Week 1 of the season, things have completely shifted with the perception of Syracuse.