Syracuse football’s season opener comes with a surprise for fans at the gate: tickets for Saturday’s game against New Hampshire are available for as little as $4.
The Orange will open at home on Sep. 3 at 12 p.m. ET at the JMA Wireless Dome, and the cheapest seats are all up in the 300-level, the highest section in the building.
Vivid Seats has $4 options available, with most listings coming in pairs, though some sections offer as many as five or six tickets. A group of six could get into section 311, directly behind the end zone, for under $30.
Fans who want a better view without spending much more can still find value in the 100-level. Seats along both sidelines in the sections closest to the field are listed for under $30 on Vivid Seats, SeatGeek and StubHub.
For those looking to go all-in on the game-day experience, Syracuse also has club seating available in three sections. Two of them, C101 and C130, sit side by side on the 50-yard line behind the Orange sideline. The other is Club 44 in section C108 behind one of the end zones.
The sideline club includes all-inclusive food and non-alcoholic beverages, four “alcoholic drink tabs”, cushioned seating access to the Kuhn Gameday Lounge and more. Club 44 comes with all-inclusive food and non-alcoholic beverages, two “alcoholic drink tabs”, cushioned seats and a direct view of Syracuse’s team tunnel. The lowest club option listed is section C130 on SeatGeek at $307.
As for the football itself, Syracuse is trying to move past a 2025 season that fell apart late. The Orange started 3-1, picked up a win over Clemson and then dropped their final eight games on the way to a 3-9 finish and last place in the ACC.
Quarterback play was the turning point. Steve Angeli’s absence after he tore his Achilles in the 34-21 win over Clemson left Syracuse scrambling.
Before the injury, he threw for 1,317 yards, 10 touchdowns and two interceptions in less than four games. After that, the Orange cycled through other quarterbacks, and the numbers tell the story: the non-Angeli passers combined for 1,290 yards, seven touchdowns and 13 interceptions.
Now Angeli is back for his senior season, and Syracuse will be looking to get back into the kind of ACC race it had under Fran Brown in his first year, when the Orange finished 10-3 and ranked No. 20 in the country.
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