No. 21 Syracuse Football Vs. Washington State in Holiday Bowl: Live scores, updates

Syracuse, NY – Syracuse football team no. 21 will take on the Washington State Cougars in the Holiday Bowl at 8:00 p.m. Friday at Snapdragon Stadium in San Diego, California.

The game will be televised on FOX.

View in-game team and individual stats here.

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First quarter

9:47 left: Syracuse drive starts at own 25-yard line

Jeff Nixon dials up a healthy dose of Allen to open this drive. Allen takes SU out near midfield before McCord hits a deep shot to Darrell Gill Jr. down near the red area.

SCORE UPDATE: Washington State 7, Syracuse 0 with 9:47 left

13:44 left: Washington State drive starts at own 32-yard line

Zevi Eckhaus, the 2023 Big South Offensive Player of the Year, is expected to get the starting quarterback.

Eckhaus gets rid of the ball against the pressure and converts on third down to move the chain. Kyle Williams then forces a missed tackle by Clarence Lewis and picks up another first down.

Williams grabs freshman cornerback Davien Kerr, who went down, and freshman safety Braheem Long is late over the deep middle as the Cougars set up first-and-goal.

Eckhaus punches it in.

The Cougars cover 68 yards on eight plays in 3:57.

14:54 left: Syracuse drive starts at own 26-yard line

Trebor Pena takes a pitch 17 yards for a run on the first play from scrimmage.

McCord misses his first two attempts to bring 3rd and 10. McCord hands it off to LeQuint Allen, who drops the pass.

Syracuse wants to hit.

Foreplay

Update: 19:45: Former Syracuse quarterback Donovan McNabb is in attendance.

Syracuse football ends its first season under Fran Brown, seeking a rare 10-win season in Friday night’s Holiday Bowl.

Brown, a native of Camden, New Jersey, has delivered about as strong a debut season as anyone expected for someone with no prior coordinating experience, let alone head-coaching opportunities.

This is the second bowl trip Brown has been on since getting the SU job. He was on the sidelines for last year’s 45-0 loss in the Boca Raton Bowl along with prized quarterback transfer Kyle McCord.

Brown and McCord have spearheaded SU’s return to the national polls, with McCord leading the nation in passing yards after transferring from Ohio State.

Others suiting up Friday were there as the program cratered with a 1-10 record in the Covid-truncated 2020 season before steadily building the program back to respectability.

Here is the list of inactives for the Orange (players listed finished the regular season on the team’s two-deep):

DT Rashard Perry

DE Chase Simmons

DE Fadil Diggs

Saf. Devin Grant

Saf. Berry Buxton III

TE Dan Villari

CB Jayden Bellamy (transfer)

Saf. Jaeden Gould (transfer)

A win Friday would give the Orange just its third 10-win season this century, and it will come with a trophy, a splash of eggnog and a familiar sense of optimism that last seeped through the fan base when the program won its 10th. game six years ago.

And when the last seconds tick off the clock, a new countdown and a new challenge begin.

Tennessee is waiting in 246 days.