Syracuse Football: The Cheez-It Bowl in summer 2021 has a nice ring to it

As the ACC sorts out its plan for Syracuse football, it’s conceivable that the bowl line-up could shift to next spring or early summer.

Syracuse football may not prove in store for a spectacular upcoming campaign, at least according to some national pundits, but the team certainly could go bowling nonetheless.

Such a bowl invite, if it indeed transpires, may not necessarily involve the Orange suiting up in the traditional bowl-heavy month of December. Nate Mink of Syracuse.com published an interesting piece that spoke to the notion that bowl games are likely to get played, and it’s just a matter of when.

Atlantic Coast Conference leaders are weighing various alternatives and models for the upcoming football stanza, as well as other fall sports. For weeks now, the thought is that ACC officials would reveal their plan for these fall sports by the end of July.

However, Stadium college football insider Brett McMurphy has tweeted out that “ACC presidents not expected to make a decision Wednesday on league scheduling format & may wait another week as officials still discussing various scheduling options.”

Several Power Five conference football squads, including both Michigan State and Rutgers from the Big Ten Conference, recently announced that they would quarantine their rosters due to positive Covid-19 cases. Within the general population, record numbers of cases unfortunately continue to get recorded in states throughout the country.

For these and many other reasons, one entirely possible option for Syracuse football and the rest of the sport is to have a season in the spring, rather than this fall.

Should the regular stanza in football shift to the spring, post-season bowls are anticipated to follow thereafter, and that could entail bowl games happening in, say, June, according to Mink’s story.

So assuming the novel coronavirus pandemic is under better control by next spring or early summer (fingers crossed), perhaps all those Orange fanatics out there will get to watch – likely from their television sets, rather than in-person – the ‘Cuse square off with a Big 12 Conference foe in the Cheez-It Bowl at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Fla.

This bowl, formerly known as the Camping World Bowl, is where Syracuse football defeated West Virginia in 2018 to wrap up a 10-3 term buoyed by a final No. 15 national ranking in the major polls.

Sure, it will seem weird for the Orange if it competes in a bowl contest in May or June, rather than late December. But a bowl bid is a bowl bid, regardless of when the event takes place.