CLEMSON – Each week the media for the Clemson Tigers gets to hear from head coach Dabo Swinney and a few select players. The media also gets to hear what the opponent has said about the upcoming game. Here are a few of the best quotes from the Tigers and the Syracuse Orange as they […]
Syracuse head coach Dino Babers met with the media this week ahead of Saturday’s game against Clemson. Babers made it clear that his team is excited about the chance to compete against the Tigers. “We like playing those guys. They’ve beaten us a lot, but we feel like we like playing them,” Babers said. “We […]
CHARLOTTE — Syracuse head coach Dino Babers was the first head coach on the stage at this year’s ACC Football Kickoff. Before he left he put in a plug for the conference. “The ACC is a conference that needs to be reckoned with. From top to bottom you can get beat at any time,” Babers […]
Syracuse head coach Dino Babers delivered some bad news on the injury front during his press conference Monday following the Orange’s 31-7 home win over Louisville on Saturday in the two teams’ season opener. Babers told reporters that both redshirt senior fullback Chris Elmore and sophomore linebacker Stefon Thompson will miss the rest of the […]
Late in Friday night’s game against Clemson, Syracuse head coach Dino Babers had a decision to make. Syracuse had the ball on fourth-and-1 from the Clemson 30-yard line with 43 seconds remaining in the game, down by three points. Instead of potentially going for it, Babers opted to try a 48-yard field goal with kicker […]
It’s hard not to notice the four-letter names of the head football coaches at Clemson and Syracuse just a couple of letters from being carbon copies of each other. “Our first names start with the same letter,” Syracuse’s Dino Babers told reporters this week. “Kind of ends with the same letter, too.” But that’s not […]
For Syracuse football things have devolved rapidly over the past two seasons. In 2018, the Orange went 10-3 and won 10 games for the first time since 2001 and it looked as if head coach Dino Babers had resurrected a dormant program. But the next season Syracuse missed a bowl game and in 2020 the […]
Though his team played well for much of the day Saturday, Syracuse head coach Dino Babers knew his team needed to play near flawless to beat top-ranked Clemson. Of course that did not happen, as the Tigers forced three late turnovers to change the momentum of the game and run away with a 47-21 victory […]
The gap between Clemson and the rest of the ACC has been obvious in recent years as the Tigers have captured five straight conference titles and are riding a 26-game winning streak against conference opponents — two games shy of the 2012-15 Florida State Seminoles for the second-longest streak in league history. Given Clemson’s dominance, […]
Dino Babers knows he is going to find out something about his team Saturday when Syracuse hosts top-ranked Clemson at The Dome. The Orange is coming off an embarrassing 63-20 loss at Maryland last week. They struggled to do anything well from an offensive standpoint early in the game and then they never did anything […]