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sold-out crowd of 50,248 fans went to see Syracuse, a team that for the past two years, built enough credibility to think it could hang with one of college football’s premier programs. It’d become one of the Orange’s most anticipated games in decades.
It’s 2019. Syracuse is hosting No. 1 Clemson in the Carrier Dome and the Orange are 28-point underdogs. Some think SU can pull it off. Others stay realistic. But one statistic jumps out: Syracuse was 1-10 all-time against No. 1-ranked teams.
Upsets and blowouts live in Orange folklore, but time-and-time again Syracuse failed against the NCAA’s best.