After Syracuse Orange football's 2016 schedule was announced (along with the rest of the ACC's) on Tuesday, we had some questions and reactions. Other fan bases did too, as they and we always do. Lucky us, the ACC (probably proactively) ran an interview with its Senior Associate Commissioner of Football Michael Strickland, describing exactly how the conference schedule was created this year. We grab some quotes and provide some reactions below.
The weekend of October 22 in noteworthy with six teams having open dates. Was that something you had in mind as you began building the schedule for this season?