Orange Watch
Orange Watch: Part I — 2014 Syracuse football pre-season game-by-game predictions
Not even an extra day off for the ‘Cuse before hosting number one Florida State, the first top-ranked team to play in the Dome since a 49-7 loss to Miami in 2002’s season finale, would stop the Seminoles and QB Jameis Winston, the first reigning Heisman Trophy winner to play on the SU campus, from their intended mission to make the Orange victim number six.
Orange Watch: An orange-flavored take on the new Syracuse football uniforms
That orange helmet meant Syracuse football. Not a blue one, and certainly not a white helmet, as Maloney found out in a hailstorm of criticism in 1974 as he wanted to separate himself from the previous quarter century of SU football under Coach Ben. By Maloney’s fourth season (of seven years as head coach) the helmet was back to orange.