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How the Syracuse football schedule gets made: Q&A with John Wildhack, Herm Frazier

Syracuse, N.Y. -- The list runs 20-30 schools deep and is constantly evolving, a compilation of what Herman Frazier calls the "soup du jour" when piecing together future Syracuse football schedules.

The contents of this list mostly remain confidential. In the ultra-secretive cosmos of college football, paranoia even stretches to scheduling, largely because several schools want the same opponents, and that's just the way business gets done when dealing with six- and seven-figure contract negotiations.

What is known about this list, though, is that it is congruent with the scheduling philosophy adopted by athletic director John Wildhack and head coach Dino Babers over the last year.