Colgate–Syracuse football rivalry explained

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Colgate–Syracuse football rivalry
Team1logo:Colgate Raiders (2020) logo.svg
Team2logo:Syracuse Orange logo.svg
Firstmeeting:November 7, 1891
Colgate, 22–16
Mostrecent:September 2, 2023
Syracuse, 65-0
Nextmeeting:September 13, 2025[1]
Total:68
Series:Syracuse, 32–31–5
Largestvictory:Syracuse, 71–0 (1959)
Longeststreak:Syracuse, 17 (1951–present)
Currentstreak:Syracuse, 17 (1951–present)

The Colgate–Syracuse football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Colgate Raiders and Syracuse Orange.[2] [3] [4] [5] The two schools are located 38 miles apart from each other in Central New York. The two teams have met 68 times, and despite Colgate not recording a victory since 1950, Syracuse leads the all-time series 32–31–5. The game has been infrequently played since the NCAA's divisional split in 1978, which placed Colgate in Division I-AA and Syracuse in Division I-A.

History

Colgate University (located in Madison County) and Syracuse University (located in neighboring Onondaga County) are both private institutions, and their close proximity to each other quickly lead to a natural rivalry in athletics between the two schools. Colgate and Syracuse first played each other in football in 1891, with Colgate recording a 22–16 victory. The Red Raiders would go on the win 12 of the first 16 games in the series. Colgate's early dominance in the series quickly gave rise to the legend of the Hoodoo (a play on a corruption of the word Voodoo). The Hoodoo legend was based on a story that, during the construction of Syracuse's Archbold Stadium in 1907, a Colgate student snuck onto the construction site and buried a varsity maroon "C" sweater in the drying cement, thereby cursing Syracuse to failure against the Red Raiders.[6] Colgate students even went so far as to rent planes to drop "Hoodoo" flyers to litter the Syracuse campus, prompting Syracuse students to respond by dropping their own flyers on the Colgate campus. After Syracuse students upped the ante by pouring orange dye into Colgate's Taylor Lake, Colgate students responded by renting a plane to drop red paint onto Archbold Stadium.[7]

By the late 1950s, Syracuse had established itself as a major power in Eastern college football, while Colgate continued to lag behind and the games became increasingly one-sided. Following the 1961 contest, Colgate terminated the series, in order to focus on playing smaller, peer institutions. Following the NCAA's I-A/I-AA split in 1978, the rivalry was intermittently renewed in the 1980s, with Syracuse comfortably winning all three games played in the decade.[8] In 2010, the rivalry was renewed again after a 23-year absence, with Syracuse recording a 42–7 victory.[9] [10] The series resumed again in 2016, when Syracuse hosted Colgate in a game played in the Carrier Dome,[11] which Syracuse won 33–7. The series was scheduled to resume in 2020 but was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The series did resume in 2023, a Syracuse 65–0 win in which Syracuse took the lead in the all-time series for the first time in series history and are on a current 17-game winning streak in the series. The teams are scheduled to meet in 2025.

Notable games

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kelley . Kevin . January 15, 2024 . Colgate adds seven future opponents, includes game at Syracuse in 2025 . January 16, 2024 . FBSchedules.com . en-US.
  2. Web site: September 22, 2010. Colgate, Syracuse set to renew football rivalry. ESPN. August 13, 2014.
  3. Web site: April 29, 2010. Return Of The Hoodoo: Colgate Officially Added To Syracuse's Schedule. nunesmagician.com. August 13, 2014.
  4. Web site: April 29, 2010. Colgate to renew historic football rivalry with Syracuse. Colgate University. August 13, 2014.
  5. Web site: Colgate Connect - Go 'gate. colgate.imodules.com. August 13, 2014. August 14, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140814061951/http://colgate.imodules.com/s/801/scene_inside.aspx?sid=801&gid=1&pgid=2770. dead.
  6. Web site: HOODOO! The Syracuse / Colgate Football Rivalry. Syracuse University. August 13, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20100609174542/http://archives.syr.edu/exhibits/colgate.html. June 9, 2010. dead.
  7. Web site: September 22, 2010. The war game: Syracuse-Colgate was once a fierce rivalry of scalping, kidnapping, fly-overs. dailyorange.com. August 13, 2014.
  8. News: October 24, 1987. UNBEATEN SYRACUSE CAUTIOUS OF COLGATE. The New York Times. August 13, 2014.
  9. News: September 26, 2010. Syracuse wallops Colgate in renewal of rivalry. Observer-Dispatch. August 13, 2014.
  10. News: September 25, 2010. Syracuse renewing Colgate rivalry. Times Union. August 13, 2014.
  11. Web site: April 8, 2014. Syracuse Football: Colgate Breaking Out The Hoodoo In 2016. nunesmagician.com. August 13, 2014.
  12. News: April 7, 2014. Syracuse football and Colgate to meet at Carrier Dome in 2016. The Post-Standard. August 13, 2014.

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