It’s Wednesday, so you know what that means… time for the blog that gives you the internet’s most ridiculous college football preview series- it’s #FakeNunes time. Can we keep finding ways to get #jokesandgarbage into a Syracuse Orange preview? You be the judge….
Now onto this week’s opponent
Opponent: UConn Huskies
Location: Storrs, CT
Students: 32,669 students who love the Big East but would take an ACC invite in a heartbeat
The 2025 Fake Nunes Statistical Index (#FNSI)
We continue to look to innovate
our analytics model so we here’s what the lab cooked up for this season.
Rivalry Trophy
The FNSI staff won’t give up on their quest to bring back more tradition into today’s college game. Let’s see what they’ve got for this one
The Pasqualoni Platter
We said it last year, but when you’ve got a HC who led both schools so it’s the perfect name for the trophy and we think Coach P would appreciate a silver platter going to the victors.
Jersey Boys
Fran Brown wants to reclaim the Garden State so let’s see how the Orange stack up against each opponent.
The Orange have 17 players from Jersey on this year’s squad and surprisingly UConn only has 3.
Advantage: Syracuse
Notable Alum
Bringing back this one as we love to drop, some knowledge every now and then to help our loyal readers possibly win a trivia night. After all we are the Syracuse blog that loves you back and we take that seriously.
Moby vs Drew Taggart
This week we head into the music world with two musicians who have found success as djs and performers. You are unlikely to hear anything from either of them in the Dome on Saturday, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t well-known, just that they made popular music after 1990.
Advantage: UConn because only Moby got threatened with violence in an Eminem verse.
Punter vs Punter
This season we’re giving a little spotlight to the position which too often gets overlooked. Each week we’ll see which team’s punter has the most interesting backstory.
Connor Stutz came to UConn from Sacramento State and that’s all well and good but that’s not good enough to take down Meier’s Creek’s own Jack Stonehouse
Advantage: Syracuse
Fran Brown Hat Tracker
Fran went Block S trucker and well it didn’t deliver. Let’s see if DART comes back or we get that personal logo he unveiled in the spring.
The Official #FakeNunes Game Prediction
This game is back and forth and then a 3rd quarter pass interference call gives the Orange the ball inside the red zone. After Syracuse converts it into a touchdown, the Husky mascot goes bonkers on the back judge and Dome security has to pull them away. As they are being escorted to the locker room, the Husky pulls away and tries to take down Otto. Some quick thinking from the Syracuse spirit squad subdues the Husky who is unmasked to reveal Dangerous Dan Hurley. The incident mars a competitive game between the two Northeastern schools, but in the end the Orange hold on.
Final Score: Syracuse 37, UConn 31
