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: North Carolina Tar Heels
Location: Chapel Bill, NC
Students: 32, 234 students who only use typewriters for their writing assignments.
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 Ring of Rings
It’s not your normal rivalry trophy. No this is a comically sized ring which features several Ring cameras as the centerpiece. Nothing like this has been seen in college football before.
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 while UNC has 6..
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.
Dan Cortese vs Scott Hanson
Yes, we’ve got two former football players better known for their tv sports role. It’s the MTV Rock n Jock legend against Mr. NFL RedZone. Who will survive the Witching Hour and deliver a 50 point shot?
Advantage: Push
Punter vs Punter
Tom Maginness got to Chapel Bill from his native Australia where he played Aussie Rules for the Sandrigham Dragons. Tom’s got a good looking moustache but his numbers (41.56 per kick) and that stache don’t quite measure up to Jack Stonehouse.
Advantage: Syracuse
Orangeawatha Miron Court Special Menu Item
Thanks to Orangeawatha we now that the Miron Victory Court will have a specialty item for each opponent this year. This week, the special item is a New England lobster roll on a toasted bun. What does it have to do with North Carolina? We don’t know but that’s the request that Dome Catering got from Trouble Cub Enterprises so that’s what they put together.
Fran Brown Hat Tracker
We’re still begging him to bring this back please. If not can we get a TB12 cap this week….
The Official #FakeNunes Game Prediction
This was a game we circled when it was announced to be on Halloween. Friday night. ESPN. National TC audience to watch Bill Belichick bring his squad into the JMA Dome. The crowd won’t be as big as the announced attendance, but they will be loud. Syracuse plays four different quarterbacks and has Dan Villari take a couple of snaps in the Thundercat and the constant rotation means the offense is disjointed. UNC takes advantage of a couple of turnovers and has a 21-20 lead late.
The clock is winding down and someone in a pair of Carolina Blue sequined jeans jumps on Belichick’s back and the HC falls into Villari as he’s running down the sideline. Flags fly and as Mike Lombardi tries to apologize to Belichick for his premature celebration Tripp Woody gets called upon and nails a LII yard field goal with no time on the clock.
Final Score: Syracuse 23, UNC 21
