Talk:Boston College–Syracuse football rivalry

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Contested deletion[edit]

This article should not be speedy deleted as having no substantive content, because I added substantive content to it --Simmonaa (talk) 09:01, 11 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move[edit]

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The result of the move request was: moved Tiggerjay (talk) 05:26, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Boston College–Syracuse rivalry → Boston College–Syracuse football rivalry – This page only talks about football and nothing else. 71.33.162.230 (talk) 16:24, 10 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Are there any other rivalries between the two schools? If not I don't think that we need to add football especially if sources do not include the term when discussing the rivalry.--174.93.164.125 (talk) 02:36, 11 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Support Yes, this rivalry seems to be exclusive to football. Reversion to this name may be appropriate if other aspects of the rivalry are ever demonstrated. --BDD (talk) 17:08, 17 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Compare to Michigan–Ohio State football rivalry. I'm sure fans of those teams still get excited when the teams meet in basketball, but football is the lynchpin of the rivalry. --BDD (talk) 17:12, 17 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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This is a serious article?[edit]

There's no rivalry. They barely played each other over the past couple of decades. SkepticalRaptor (talk) 03:10, 28 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Is this a serious question? Of course it is, considering the pages that exist for other rivalries (see Missouri-AnyoneintheSEC). It has almost 50 games played over 90 years, and it was annual from 1961-2004 and a huge Big East rivalry. It is annual again now that both teams are in the ACC Atlantic. Also three games over one decade isn't a lot, yes, but "couple of decades"? no, that would be 13 games over 20 years. Mushh94 (talk) 03:52, 28 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Georgetown is a real rivalry. Notre Dame. Boston College? Hockey would work, if SU actually played men's hockey. SkepticalRaptor (talk) 17:39, 29 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Notice the title of the article BC-Syracuse FOOTBALL rivalry. this isn't a general school rivalry. also, the rivalry pertains to both schools, not just if syracuse considers BC their rivals, but also if boston college considers syracuse their rivals.Mushh94 (talk) 21:33, 29 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Color contrast[edit]

I'm no expert on color contrast, but it looks to me as though the results table might fail MOS:COLOR, or at least some related best practice. Currently the colors being used are the primary colors for both teams, orange (SU) and maroon (BC), which are awfully close in hue.

Here's what it would look like with SU's primary (orange) and BC's alternate (gold):

Boston College victories	Syracuse victories	Tie games

No.	Date	Location	Winner	Score
1	October 18, 1924	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse	10–0
2	October 28, 1944	Boston, MA	Boston College	19–12
Series: Tied 1–1

Here's the same truncated table with SU's alternate (navy blue) and BC's primary (maroon):

Boston College victories	Syracuse victories	Tie games

No.	Date	Location	Winner	Score
1	October 18, 1924	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse	10–0
2	October 28, 1944	Boston, MA	Boston College	19–12
Series: Tied 1–1

Here it is with both alternates, which provides the greatest contrast, SU navy blue and BC gold:

Boston College victories	Syracuse victories	Tie games

No.	Date	Location	Winner	Score
1	October 18, 1924	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse	10–0
2	October 28, 1944	Boston, MA	Boston College	19–12
Series: Tied 1–1

To my own untrained eye, orange-and-gold appears to provide enough contrast, and has the advantage of (a) rendering one team's results in white text and the other's in black text; and (b) preserving the orange color for Syracuse results, where "orange" is literally the team name (or historically, part of it). The third option, blue and gold, probably provides the greatest contrast, though it looks weird to see Syracuse represented by white and blue alone.

Any thoughts from those who actually know the accessibility rules? _``` t b w i l l i e _` $1.25 _` 22:28, 1 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like Joeykai already made a similar change a few months ago at Boston College–Virginia Tech football rivalry. Elsewhere in the Eagleverse, it looks like whatever we decide here might also need to be implemented at O'Rourke–McFadden Trophy, the BC-Clemson rivalry. What is it with BC hating orange teams? _``` t b w i l l i e _` $1.25 _` 23:03, 1 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]