At the Bodog Sportsbook the Orange are listed as 7-point home favorites against the Demon Deacons for Week 1, with kickoff scheduled for 8:00 pm ET Thursday night.

Syracuse went 8-5 overall but just 4-3 in Big East play last season, slipping into the Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium where they beat Kansas State 36-34. With a lot of key defensive players having graduated, though, the Orange could find it hard to duplicate that success in 2011.

That's why Syracuse has a wins OVER/UNDER at the Bodog Sportsbook of just six, and they're second-last on the Big East odds list at 18/1 to win that conference title. Only Connecticut (22/1) is below them right now; West Virginia (2/1) tops that odds list.

The Orange at least have starting quarterback Ryan Nassib back for this season; Nassib threw for 2,334 yards with 19 touchdowns and eight interceptions for the Orange in 2010.

And Nassib will be looking to air it out on Thursday against a Wake Forest team that went just 3-9 overall and 1-7 against ACC competition in 2010.

Those records put the Demon Deacons at the bottom of the ACC's Atlantic Division, and they're at longshot 55/1 odds to pull off a miracle and win that division title in 2011. North Carolina State (11/1) is the closest team to them on that NCAA football odds list; Florida State is the 2/5 favorite to win the Atlantic Division.

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