Syracuse football announces game dates for full 2020 schedule

It’s basically a national holiday here on TNIAAM, as the Syracuse Orange (and the ACC) have announced the 2020 football schedule — including all dates and opponents. First and foremost, you can check that out below, via Twitter:

And for SEO purposes, here’s the full list in plain text form.

Friday, Sept. 4: at Boston College Eagles

Saturday, Sept. 12: at Rutgers Scarlet Knights

Saturday, Sept. 19: Colgate Raiders

Saturday, Sept. 26: at Western Michigan Broncos

Saturday, Oct. 3: Louisville Cardinals

Saturday, Oct. 10: BYE

Saturday, Oct. 17: Liberty Flames

Saturday, Oct. 24: at Clemson Tigers

Saturday: Oct. 31: Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

Saturday, Nov. 7: at Wake Forest Demon Deacons

Saturday, Nov. 14: N.C. State Wolfpack

Thursday, Nov. 19: Florida State Seminoles

Saturday: Nov. 28: at Pittsburgh Panthers

Looking back at our predictions from a couple weeks back, it seems we got it very wrong, largely based on the fact that we didn’t anticipate opening at BC. But the greater takeaways from this release:

• Opening at BC is a potential blessing with that team rebuilding and implementing a whole new system. Also means we don’t have any tape on what we’ll see, and we know what happened last year when this staff had that excuse early...
• Great bye placement again, coming in week six, giving us additional time to prepare before a pesky Liberty squad.
• Clemson’s too late in the season (October 24) to catch Trevor Lawrence before he heats up, sadly.
• Other than the first two weeks, not on the road in consecutive weeks at all, which is nice.
• Potentially brutal November ahead of us with Wake, NC State, FSU and Pitt.
• Speaking of, Thursday nighter against FSU at the Dome, which is fun, even if difficult.

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How do we feel about the overall schedule? Happy? Disappointed? Dreading the whole damn thing? We’ll dive into very early W-L projections tomorrow.