'Cuse Hosts Wagner Looking for 5-0 Start

SYRACUSE VS. WAGNER
Game Details: 5 p.m. | Saturday, Oct. 1
Location: Syracuse, N.Y. | JMA Wireless Dome
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Television: ACCNX
Radio: Syracuse Sports Network from Learfield
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ORANGE CONTINUE HOMESTAND AGAINST WAGNER
• Syracuse tries to remain unbeaten when it hosts Wagner on Saturday. The game is the third of four-straight home games for the Orange.
• The game will air on ACCNX with Courtney Lyle (PxP), Charles Arbuckle (analyst) and Jalyn Johnson (reporter) on the call.
• The Orange will try to start the campaign with five consecutive wins for the first time since 1987 when Syracuse posted an unbeaten 11-0-1 record. It would mark the fifth time since 1942 that 'Cuse has started 5-0.

FAN INFORMATION
• Saturday's game is a headlining event of Orange Central Weekend. For more information on Orange Central, click here
• 'Cuse on the Quad opens at 2 p.m., gates open at 3 p.m. For a full timeline of events, checkout this week's gameday timeline.
• Tickets are still available at Cuse.com/Tickets, 888-DOME-TIX, or the JMA Wireless Dome Box Office on gameday.

HOMECOMING HISTORY
• Dating back to 1949, the Orange are 42-29 (.592) all-time in Orange Central/Homecoming games.
• The record does not include the 1979 season when Syracuse University did not sponsor Homecoming Weekend due to the construction of the Dome or the 2020 campaign when fans were not permitted due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
• The Orange are 3-2 in Homecoming games under head coach Dino Babers, losing to USF (45-20) in 2016 and defeating Pittsburgh (27-24) in 2017 and North Carolina (40-37, 2OT) in 2018. Clemson snapped the winning streak in 2019 (41-6). Last season, the Orange defeated Boston College, 21-6.
• Syracuse is 12-14 (.462) against conference opponents on Homecoming, including a 3-4 mark against ACC foes since joining the league in 2013.
• Syracuse's longest Homecoming winning streak is 16 games (1951-66).
• Colgate is Syracuse's most frequent Homecoming foe. The Orange have hosted the Raiders 14 times during Homecoming Weekend, including 13 straight seasons from 1949-61.

AGAINST THE FCS
• Syracuse is a perfect 19-0 against FCS foes (formerly Division I-AA) since the separation of major college football programs into two divisions in 1978.
• The streak includes 18-straight wins in the Dome.
• Head coach Dino Babers is 24-5 in his career against FCS teams, which includes an 18-5 recorded while he was the head coach at Eastern Illinois, an FCS institution. Babers is 6-0 versus FCS teams when coaching at an FBS program, including a 5-0 mark with Syracuse.

RED ZONE PERFECTION
• Syracuse is 16-for-16 in the red zone this season. The Orange are one of 13 FBS teams and two ACC squads that remain perfect in scoring points off red-zone trips.
• Since the NCAA began tracking red zone statistics in 2006, Syracuse's best percentage was .923 (36-39) in 2015.

CLIMBING THE CHARTS
• RB Sean Tucker continued his climb on Syracuse's all-time rushing list. He increased his career yardage total to 2,436 with his performance against Virginia, passing Heisman Trophy winner Ernie Davis for 12th place in the Orange record book.
• He became the 13th player in program history to surpass 2,300 rushing yards in Syracuse's victory against UConn.
• With 26 more yards, Tucker will pass Damien Rhodes (2002-05) for 11th place on the Orange's all-time leader list.

SEPTEMBER PERFECTION
• Syracuse will enter the month of October unbeaten for the first time since 1993 (3-0-1).
• The Orange won all four of their games in September, marking the first perfect month for Syracuse under the direction of head coach Dino Babers.
• It also marks the first time 'Cuse has gone undefeated in a month with more than one game since the Orange went 4-0 in October during the 2001 campaign. The four wins that month were part of an eight-game winning streak for Syracuse, which ended the year with a 10-3 record and a win in the Insight.com Bowl.

SERIES HISTORY
• Syracuse and Wagner will meet for the third time overall and the first time since 2018.
• The Orange have won both contests, outscoring the Seahawks, 116-10.

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