SU football unveils new uniforms, announces LSU game in 2015

SYRACUSE — The Syracuse University (SU) athletics department on Wednesday introduced the new uniforms that the Orange football team will wear beginning this fall.

The school unveiled the uniforms in a ceremony at Destiny USA. SU worked with Nike, its uniform provider, to design the new threads.  

The combinations include SU’s familiar navy blue uniform finished by an orange anodized helmet with navy blue embellishments for home games, as described in a news release from the SU athletics department.

The white away jersey and pants feature navy blue stripes and include a white matte-finish helmet. The team’s new alternate, “dark steel” grey uniform with orange stripes will feature a navy blue helmet, as described in the news release.  

SU also has the option of mixing and matching the combinations, Scott Shafer, head coach of the football team, said in his remarks during the ceremony.

 “Orange pants are very much in the plans … you’ll see those at a later date,” Matt Park, play-by-play announcer on the Syracuse University-IMG Sports Network, added.

Park served as the event’s master of ceremonies.

2015 game against LSU
SU also used the event to make an announcement about a future opponent.

The Syracuse Orange will host the LSU Tigers on Sept. 26, 2015 at the Carrier Dome, the first game of a two-game series between the two schools.

The second game in the series will be played on Sept. 9, 2017 at LSU’s Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, La.

“We are thrilled to enter into this home-and-home agreement with a premiere program like LSU. Student-athletes come to Syracuse to play on the biggest stage possible, and this gives our coaches and young men the chance to battle one of the standard-bearers of the SEC on our home turf,” Daryl Gross, Syracuse director of athletics, said in a news release. “It is a complicated process to arrange games of this magnitude, and I couldn’t be happier for our fans and for all who will be involved in this upcoming series.”

The meeting will be the first regular-season game between the two schools. But, Syracuse and LSU have met in two bowl games — the 1989 Hall of Fame Bowl that Syracuse won 23-10, and the 1965 Sugar Bowl, won by LSU 13-10.

Syracuse opens the 2014 football season against Villanova, which plays in college’s football’s second level (the FCS), on Friday, Aug. 29. To help spur ticket sales for the game, SU and Shafer announced today the “Coach Shafer Buyout” plan. For every ticket Orange fans purchase for the Villanova game, Shafer will buy an additional ticket for that fan. The offer includes season tickets already purchased.

SU also has “a couple” of retail kiosks that are open at Destiny USA where fans can purchase tickets, if desired, Park said.

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