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Opponent Watch: Saturday Appetizer Edition

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Florida State at Syracuse (Sat 12:00pm ET ESPN)

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The Seminoles head to upstate New York to take on Syracuse this Saturday, and you can see how mobile quarterback Terrel Hunt does against the FSU defense as a sort of early harbinger of next week’s showdown in Tallahassee.

It will be interesting to see how good FSU’s run game looks against the Orange, as I think making Jameis Winston one-dimensional will be critical to any Irish success. Syracuse has a much more experienced receiving corps than ND at this point, and assuming FSU doesn’t have a minus-4 turnover margin, look for them to blow the doors off this game during (or before) the third quarter.

Strength-of-Schedule Rankings

Rank

Team

Record

Weekly Change
12 Southern Cal 3-2 +1
13 Syracuse 2-3 -9
20 Stanford 3-2 -45
22 North Carolina 3-2 -8
37 Northwestern 3-2 -32
43 Michigan 2-4 -32
47 Navy 2-4 -1
48 Florida State 5-0 +33
49 Arizona State 4-1 -55
52 Notre Dame 5-0 -27
63 Rice 2-3 +49
81 Purdue 3-3 -14
88 Louisville 5-1 -34

Upcoming Opponents

  • Northwestern at Minnesota (Sat 12:00pm ET Big Ten Network)
  • Louisville at Clemson (Sat 3:30pm ET ESPNU)
  • Virginia Military Institute at Navy (Sat 3:30pm ET CBS Sports Network)
  • USC at Arizona (Sat 10:30pm ET ESPN2)

Past Opponents

  • Washington State at Stanford (Fri 9:00pm ET ESPN)
  • Rice at Army (Sat 12:00pm ET CBS Sports Network)
  • Michigan State at Purdue (Sat 3:30pm ET ABC)
  • Penn State at Michigan (Sat 7:00pm ET ESPN2)
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