Month: December 2013

Syracuse is one of 11 bowl eligible teams in the ACC, but the conference only gets 8 auto-bids. Syracuse finished third in the Atlantic Division with a tiebreaker over Boston College, and possesses a better conference record than bowl eligible teams Pittsburgh and Maryland (they finished 3-5).

For MacPherson and the 18 other players who were making their final Carrier Dome appearance, the game will be one for the ages and will be most remembered by the resiliency of the team that produced the stunning comeback to clinch a bowl bid (the third in four years) in SU’s inaugural season in the ACC.