A new rival emerges
It’s Wednesday, so you know what that means… time for the blog that gives you the internet’s most ridiculous college football preview series- it’s #FakeNunes time. Can we keep finding ways to get #jokesandgarbage into a Syracuse Orange preview? You be the judge….
Now onto this week’s opponent
Opponent: Stanford Cardinal
Location: Palo Alto, California
Students: 17, 529students
The 2024 Fake Nunes Statistical Index (#FNSI)
We continue to look to innovate our analytics model so we here’s what the lab cooked up for this season.
Rivalry Trophy
The FNSI staff won’t give up on their quest to bring back more tradition into today’s college game. Let’s see what they’ve got for this one
Block S
This isn’t going to be a regular trophy game. No these two schools, who once traded a Twitter handle, will face off with the winner being allowed to use the Block S logo. The Orange better win or it’ll be a long week for the equipment staff removing stickers from helmets.
Jersey Boys
Fran Brown wants to reclaim the Garden State so let’s see how the Orange stack up against each opponent.
The Cardinal have six players from New Jersey and it would have been seven, but Emanuel Ross flipped to the Orange to make it 25 from the state that gave us all Sean Keeley.
Advantage: Syracuse
Notable Alum
Bringing back this one as we love to drop, some knowledge every now and then to help our loyal readers possibly win a trivia night. After all we are the Syracuse blog that loves you back and we take that seriously.
Sandra Day O’Connor vs Belva Ann Lockwood
The first woman to serve on the Supreme Court goes up against the first woman to argue a case before the Supreme Court. Lockwood wins this one because she was also the second woman to officially run for President.
Advantage: Syracuse
Head Coach Radio Show Sponsor
Blank vs AmeriCU
Couldn’t find anything about Troy Taylor other than some appearances on something called The Treecast. Apparently when you’re the Bradford M. Freeman Director of Football you don’t need to do radio.
Advantage: Syracuse
Fran Brown Hat Tracker
Same look for Fran against Bye Week U. Will he have something special for the Friday Night Lights game?
Mark Konezny-Imagn Images
The Official #FakeNunes Game Prediction
This is a game where the Syracuse defense takes over scoring on a pick-6 from Alijah Clark and setting the Orange offense up with a short field following a Derek MacDonald strip-sack. It’s a quiet night for Kyle McCord as the Syracuse run game takes the spotlight featuring the first career touchdown for Yasin Willis.
Justin Lamson scores on two runs and the game thread sees 70% of comments lamenting his departure despite the final result.
Final Score: Syracuse 31, Stanford 22