Syracuse Football: Let’s take the Orange to Fenway Park for a 2020 bowl
By Neil Adler
Syracuse football could make a trip to Boston in the 2020 post-season, according to bowl projections from CBS Sports.
Assuming that a fall campaign is played amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, if Syracuse football can muster up enough victories within its challenging 11-game slate, one national expert has the Orange headed to Boston to play in a new bowl game.
Jerry Palm of CBS Sports, in releasing his latest predictions for the 2020 bowl line-up, is slotting the ‘Cuse to the new Fenway Bowl in Boston, which is scheduled to take place on Dec. 20. Palm is forecasting Syracuse football to battle with the University of Louisiana Monroe, out of the Sun Belt Conference.
In September of last year, Fenway Sports Management, ESPN Events and the city of Boston announced the creation of the Fenway Bowl, beginning in 2020 and matching squads from the Atlantic Coast Conference and the American Athletic Conference.
This new annual bowl game will transpire at Fenway Park, the historic home of Major League Baseball’s Boston Red Sox. At the time that this event got unveiled, officials involved in developing it said that the Fenway Bowl would represent the first bowl game played at Fenway Park, which is pretty cool.
Even though this affair pits the ACC versus the AAC, Palm has UL Monroe participating in the Fenway Bowl as a replacement crew. The Warhawks finished 5-7 in 2019.
Syracuse football may prove in store for the new Fenway Bowl in Boston, per a CBS Sports article.
A lot of national and ACC pundits are forecasting that Syracuse football will have a fairly sub-par 2020 term, with some even viewing the Orange as a four-win group. The road docket for the ‘Cuse, undeniably, is brutal.
However, if the team can get things going in a positive direction and manage even five conquests, that might prove enough for Syracuse football to qualify for a bowl berth.
Media reports have indicated that, due to multiple Power Five leagues canceling their fall seasons, and the remaining ones shrinking their upcoming stanzas, it’s conceivable that some squads will land bowl bids even if their records are below the .500 mark.
Palm, by the way, has Clemson, the pre-season No. 1 crew in both major polls, in his projected College Football Playoff, along with Alabama, Georgia and Oklahoma. Because so many FBS units aren’t expected to suit up this fall, Palm has a slew of ACC members in his present bowl line-up.