Syracuse Football: Where 'Cuse resides in ACC in total miles traveled for 2024 season

Within the Atlantic Coast Conference in the upcoming season, Syracuse football is above the middle-of-the-pack in the league as it pertains to the total number of miles that the Orange will travel for the 2024 campaign.

Beginning this season, the ACC has expanded to 17 members in football, with the additions of West Coast schools California, Stanford and SMU. That, naturally, could increase how far all ACC members will have to travel now and in the future for road games (and perhaps neutral-site contests), given that these new league members all hail from the West Coast.

Grant Hughes, a national writer with 247Sports, recently published an article where he looked at how many total miles each ACC squad will have to travel in the 2024 season.

Let's see how far Syracuse football will have to travel in the upcoming term.

Before we get to the Orange, the ACC group that will have to travel the least number of miles in 2024 is Clemson, at 2,472.

The two conference units that will have to travel the most miles in 2024, understandably, come from the West Coast. They are California, with 20,660 total miles traveled, and Stanford, with 14,018 miles to cover this season.

Syracuse football, meanwhile, will travel a total of 11,156 miles in 2024, per Hughes. That places the 'Cuse in the ACC's No. 7 spot, as it pertains to the most miles traveled this coming season.

Hughes writes of the Orange, "Travel is the norm for Syracuse as the ACC's northernmost team. However, the 2024 season will be a different beast for Fran Brown and Co. The Orange has a tough 2,415.4-mile trip to Las Vegas on Oct. 4 and makes its first trip to Berkley since 1968 a month later."

In the 2024 season, Syracuse football has five road games. They are:
•Friday, Oct. 4: at UNLV
•Saturday, Oct. 12: at N.C. State
•Thursday, Oct. 24: at Pittsburgh
•Saturday, Nov. 9: at Boston College
•Saturday, Nov. 16: at California

National and ACC pundits, ahead of the 2024 campaign, have frequently stated that they believe the 'Cuse upcoming schedule, at least on paper, is relatively manageable. Some experts have even characterized it as an easy docket for first-year head coach Fran Brown, his top-flight staff and their talented roster.

That remains to be seen, in my humble opinion. But the early October road battle with UNLV could prove tricky. Playing at N.C. State will be a tall task. And Syracuse football does have to make a second trip to the West Coast, in mid-November, to face Cal.

It's weird to me that Cal, Stanford and SMU are in the ACC, but then again, with all the conference realignment developments, geography has been pretty much tossed aside when it comes to league affiliations.

Heck, I'm still getting used to our beloved Orange being in the ACC, and not the Big East Conference. And the 'Cuse moved leagues in 2013-14. I guess I'm just old school that way, having attended SU in the late 1990s.