There was some big off-the-field news this week before Syracuse looks to win back-to-back ACC regular season games in successive weeks for the first time in five years. There is a rare uniform change coming as SU hosts SMU Saturday (Halloween) afternoon (12:30 p.m. ET / ESPN2).

The football program made the news official on social media Monday , that for the first time ever, school mascot "Otto the Orange" will appear on each side of a white helmet with blue and orange stripes down the middle and a white facemask.

The Orange will wear their customary blue home jerseys and orange pants, not the orange jerseys and pants the team did up last season in an all-orange look on a Halloween Friday night loss to North Carolina.

The Syracuse uniform combination for the game against SMU Saturday in the Dome, featuring a first-of-its-kind helmet.…