Orange Travel to GT Seeking Second-Straight Win - Syracuse University …

Game Details: Eight p.m. | Saturday, Nov. 18 Location: Atlanta, Ga. | Bobby Dodd Stadium Remaining Home Game Tickets: Cuse.com/Tickets Game Links: Watch | Listen | Live Stats Television: ACCN Radio: Syracuse Sports Network from Learfield Twitter: @CuseFootball | @Cuse Syracuse Links: News | Roster | Schedule | Notes Georgia Tech Links: News | Roster | Schedule | Notes

ORANGE Travel TO GEORGIA TECH FOR Final Road CONTEST • Syracuse makes a uncommon trip to Atlanta to face Georgia Tech on Saturday. It would be the Orange's final street contest of the 2023 common season. • The sport will air on ACC Network, with Wes Durham (PxP), Tim Hasselbeck (analyst) and Taylor Tannebaum (reporter) on the decision. • The Orange will try to change into bowl eligible for the second-straight yr. It could be the primary time Syracuse has gone to a bowl sport in again-to-again seasons since 2012 and 2013.

SEE THE ORANGE RUN • Syracuse rushed for a season-high 392 yards in its victory against Pittsburgh. • It's the seventh-highest, single-game whole in the FBS this season and probably the most dashing yards for an ACC squad in 2023. • The Orange's ground assault produced their most speeding yards because the 1996 Liberty Bowl (396 yards). • Syracuse ran seventy four plays in the victory over the Panthers, sixty five of which had been run plays. The sixty five speeding makes an attempt are the very best whole for the Orange in an ACC recreation and probably the most for 'Cuse underneath the route of head coach Dino Babers. • Conversely, Syracuse tried just nine passes, which are the fewest for the Orange in an ACC contest and the least quantity of makes an attempt since 2000 against Buffalo (9). The five accomplished passes tied for the fewest in an ACC recreation.

THREE'S Company • The Orange had three gamers rush for greater than 100 yards towards Pittsburgh, the travel notes led by TE Dan Villari's career high 154 yards. QB Garrett Shrader finished with 105, while RB LeQuint Allen Jr. had 102 yards. • It marked the primary time since 1997 that Syracuse had three 100-yard rushers in the same recreation. That yr, Kyle McIntosh (136), Dee Brown (117) and Donovan McNabb (100) completed the feat towards Miami. • Saturday's game marked the second time this season that a non quarterback or working again led an ACC workforce in rushing this season (NC State WR KC Concepcion vs. Clemson) and the third time in the FBS this season (Hawaii P Matthew Shipley vs. San Jose State).

WAX ON, WAX OFF • LB Marlowe Wax emerged as a frontrunner on Syracuse's protection final season. • He's in sole possession of seventh on Syracuse's profession chief listing for tackles for loss ledger with 35.5. • He forced his third fumble of the season towards Clemson, giving him seven in his profession. That whole ties for fourth on Syracuse's career chief checklist. • Wax took over the staff lead in tackles with a career-excessive 14 at Virginia Tech. He now has 83 this season. • His 5.5 solo tackles per sport rank second in the ACC and ninth within the nation. • Wax forced two fumbles, had an interception that he returned for 14 yards and broke up a move in opposition to Purdue. • He turned the primary member of the Orange to pressure two fumbles and report an interception in a game since Dave Rebar in 1994 in opposition to Rutgers. • He entered 2023 on the Bednarik, Butkus and Lombardi Award watch lists.

VILLARI DOES All of it • TE Dan Villari led Syracuse on the bottom and by the air in its victory towards Pittsburgh. • He set the varsity document for most speeding yards by a tight finish with a profession-excessive 154 yards. His 17 carries have been additionally a profession high. • The 154 yards rank eleventh on the 2023 ACC single-recreation leader listing. • Villari additionally threw the ball 5 times. He completed three of those passes for 12 yards. • Villari converted to tight end from quarterback prior to the 2022 season. He has recorded profession highs in receptions (19) and receiving yards (167) this season.

Series History • Syracuse and Georgia Tech will meet for the fifth time when they take the sphere on Saturday. • The Yellow Jackets have received three of the four earlier contests between the 2 teams, together with the one recreation performed in Atlanta. • Georgia Tech is among the teams the Orange have faced the least since joining the ACC. Syracuse has played Miami simply once and taken on the Yellow Jackets and Virginia twice. • The first two conferences between the squads were performed at impartial websites. The primary happened in the 2001 Kickoff Classic in Giants Stadium. The second was a showdown in the 2004 Champs Sports Bowl in Orlando.

A WIN WOULD … • Improve Dino Babers' report to 42-54 as head coach of the Orange. • Make Syracuse bowl eligible for the second-straight year. • Give Syracuse again-to-again bowl trips for the primary time since 2012-thirteen and first time under a sitting head coach since 1998-99. • Give Syracuse its 754th all-time victory (includes eleven wins from 2004-06 that had been vacated by the NCAA). The Orange presently rank twenty first on the FBS ledger of winningest packages. Syracuse is considered one of 34 FBS schools to have accumulated 700+ wins.