College football’s professional brethren play four pre-season games (simultaneously committing consumer fraud by charging regular season prices for a different product) to get ready for 16 games over a four month season.
Posting a 26-10 record, two bowl appearances and their first bowl victory since 1979, Temple is a drastically different program than the team many Syracuse fans will remember getting thrown out of the Big East.
Syracuse got some good news on Tuesday at Big East Media Day after Orange receiver Alec Lemon said he would be participating in preseason training camp and was on pace to start the regular season.
It’s been 21 years since the Big East finally fielded its football division to pair up with the already hugely successful basketball brethren under then relatively new boss Mike Tranghese.