There can’t be a college football fan base more frustrated than Syracuse right now. Yes, there are teams having far worse seasons, but the past two weeks has to have left a bad taste in everyone’s mouth. First, your team comes incredibly close to pulling off one of the season’s biggest upsets at Clemson only to let it slip away. Now, you have to deal your team losing to Notre Dame, 41-24, in its worst game of the year, which also saw starting quarterback Garrett Shrader miss the second half with an injury.
Three of the Orange’s remaining games are against teams they should be favored against, but none of their supporters are thinking about that right now. They would rather think about something besides football, and that became clear to the TV audience. The JMA Wireless Dome was packed at the start of the game against the Irish, but many of the fans already had left by the time it was over. Maybe some of them are part of this collection of tweets: