Syracuse will get the 2025 season underway at noon Eastern on Saturday when they take on #24 Tennessee in Atlanta, Georgia in the AFLAC Kickoff Game. Both teams are coming off 10-3 campaigns with the Orange winning the Holiday Bowl while the Volunteers were eliminated from the college football playoff by the eventual national champions from Ohio State.

The Tennessee Volunteers are traveling to Atlanta to face the Syracuse Orange in the 2025 Aflac Kickoff Game inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Vols fans, of course, will head there en masse.

In the summer of 2021, Peach Bowl executives in Atlanta were looking to solidify the pairing of their annual start-of-the-season games for the '25 season, which would be returning to a doubleheader format of pairings between ACC and SEC teams.

With No. 18 Tennessee set to take on Syracuse at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Aug. 30, we did the best we could to pick a neutral site by setting up the virtual game as the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl, held at the same venue. Looking for a free mini puzzle?

From a historic loss to Tennessee in ’98 to the implications of playing a SEC opponent, the Syracuse season opener is a big one. The Orange takes on a top 25

The Orange will meet Binghamton for the first time since 2013, in the 2025-26 season opener November 3 at the JMA Wireless Dome.