Syracuse football has known for months that they’d open with two straight road games to start the 2019 campaign. Week 1 at Liberty and Week 2 at Maryland.
This is the first time this phenomenon has occurred since 2010.
For any team, this would be a monumental task, but there was always one saving grace for the Orange: at least both programs would be operated by first-year head coaches.
In Week 1 the Orange faced Hugh Freeze. While certainly a big name who has a winning pedigree, but at the end of the day he’s still in his first year with the Flames.