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Fran Brown explains why Steve Angeli will be Syracuse football's starting quarterback

The competition between two college transfers for the starting quarterback position at Syracuse football for the upcoming campaign was a "complete battle," head coach Fran Brown says.

News broke on Monday that Brown would be rolling with former Notre Dame signal-caller Steve Angeli as the Orange's QB1 in the 2025 season. ESPN's Pete Thamel broke this story on Monday morning, and I confirmed it with a source. SU Athletics also put out a press release on Angeli being tabbed as the starting quarterback via cuse.com in the late morning on Monday.

In a press conference following a 'Cuse practice on Monday, Brown said he "was up for a long time just trying to figure this out" before he ended up picking the 6-foot-3, 212-pound Angeli, a redshirt junior from Westfield, N.