I wouldn't worry so much about special teams. Murphy is the dangerous returner and he's wearing a redshirt this week in practice for an undisclosed injury. Meh. Hunt had a nice return against the Vols but that wasn't him - the Vols completely whiffed.
For passing, don't underestimate the Tigers. Berkstresser is a RS freshman who started 5 games because Franklin was injured and was benched against Kentucky. It was the first time in his career Pinkel benched his starting QB during a game and it was for an obviously still injured Franklin who couldn't make a cut while jogging. Berkstresser was unimaginably horrible. Here's why the Tigers lost to Vandy; Berkstresser was 9 of 30 for 189 yards. 85 of those yards came on 1 play where the defender fell down leaving the WR open by 15 yards. As a RS freshman that's sort of expected but wow.
Against Georgia, Franklin was 25/41 for 269 yards and 2 TDs. and reinjured his shoulder with about 7 minutes left. I'd expect numbers somewhat similar this week. Unless of course Syracuse has TWO Jarvis Jones clones. Wow, that guy was as dominant of a defensive player as I've ever seen in college football. People love Manti Te'o but wow, Jones is amazing.