Rhode Island head coach Jim Fleming hopes that it will be “anybody’s game” in the fourth quarter. He expects the Carrier Dome will be hostile on Friday night and he’s planning to use a quarterback that’s never played at the Division I level, but still has high expectations of his team in its season opener against Syracuse.
“At the end of the day, we get on a bus, I hope we got a tape that shows a team that plays very physical, very hard and plays within themselves and don’t make stupid penalties that hurt you,” Fleming said.