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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3546565, member: 289"] When Syracuse had the ball: KO: D25, D25, D25, D21, D25, D23 Total: Syracuse 6 Duke 0 P: 33 to D33, 41 to D11, 44 to D20, 49 to D 11, 56 to D19, 35 to D49, 31 to SU 45 Total: Syracuse 4 Duke 3 FG: Good from 48 Total: Syracuse 1 Duke 0 XP: Good, Good, Good Total: Syracuse 3 Duke 0 Kicking plays total: Syracuse 14 Duke 3 1r: 7, 6, 1, 5, 3, 9, 3, Total: Syracuse 4 Duke 3 1p: 1, I, I, I, I, I, I, 13, 23, 53TD, I, -6s, 10, 8, I Total: Syracuse 5 Duke 10 First Down Total: Syracuse 9 Duke 13 2r: -1, 1, 6(7), 0 Total: Syracuse 1 Duke 3 2p: 79TD, -4s, I, 27(5), -3s 10, -6s 21(16), 7(7), -6s, I Total: Syracuse 6 Duke 7 Second Down Total: Syracuse 7 Duke 10 3r: 0, 16(16), -2 Total: Syracuse 1 Duke 2 3p: I, 5(11), I, 3s, I, 11(6), 3(8), -12s Total: Syracuse 1 Duke 7 Third Down Total: Syracuse 2 Duke 9 4r: 0 Total: Syracuse 0 Duke 1 4p: none Total: Syracuse 0 Duke 0 Fourth Down Total: Syracuse 0 Duke 1 Total on running plays: Syracuse 6 Duke 9 Total on passing plays: Syracuse 12 Duke 24 Total on plays from scrimmage: Syracuse 18 Duke 33 Penalties not tacked on to plays: -5, -15, -5 Syracuse 0 Duke 3 Game total when Syracuse had the ball: Syracuse 32 Duke 39 When Duke had the ball: KO: SU 25, SU 27, SU 25, SU 25, SU 12, SU 25, SU 15, SU 25 Total: Syracuse 1 Duke 7 P: 45 to SU 28 Total: Syracuse 0 Duke 1 FG: Good from 36, Good from 45, Good from 27 Total: Syracuse 0 Duke 3 XP: Good, Good, Good, Try for 2 - Good Total: Syracuse 0 Duke 4 Kicking plays total: Syracuse 1 Duke 15 1r: 4, 6, 2, 8, 2, 1, 50, Fumble, 3, 3, 6, 2, 3, 4, 6, 1, 1, 3, 1, 5, 4, 0, 0, 32, 13, 3, 1, 9, 1(9), 3, 6, 6, 2, 4 Total: Syracuse 19 Duke 15 1p: 11, 26TD, 10, I, I, I, 14, I, I, I, 4, I, 6, 4, -6p, 52TD, 7, 5 Total: Syracuse 8 Duke 9 First Down Total: Syracuse 27 Duke 24 2r: 20(6), 0, 3(2), 4(8), 48, 7, 4, 4(7), 1(4), Fumble, 6, 3, 15TD, 4(6), 7(4), 3(4), 0, 7(5), 1(6), -2, 15(1), 5(8), 2(7) Total: Syracuse 8 Duke 15 2p: 13(8), I, Sack-TD, 12, 11, 11(9), I, 26,(7), Interception, 13, I, 9(9) Total: Syracuse 5 Duke 7 Second Down Total: Syracuse 13 Duke 22 3r: 2(4), 3(3), 3(2), 4(1), 3TD, 15(5) Total: Syracuse 1 Duke 5 3p: 8(4), I, I, 11(6)s, 12(3), I, 14(5), 14(5), I, 9(7) Total: Syracuse 4 Duke 6 Third Down Total: Syracuse 5 Duke 11 4r: none Total: Syracuse 0 Duke 0 4p: I Total: Syracuse 0 Duke 1 Fourth Down Total: Syracuse 0 Duke 1 Total on running plays: Syracuse 28 Duke 35 Total on passing plays: Syracuse 18 Duke 22 Total on plays from scrimmage: Syracuse 46 Duke 57 Penalties not tacked on to plays: +15, +15, +5 Syracuse 0 Duke 3 Game total when Duke had the ball: Syracuse 47 Duke 75 Overall Game Total: Syracuse 79 Duke 104 Comments: That game was like a boxing match. I've always felt sorry for the loser in a boxing match because not only have you lost but you've gotten beaten up to boot. We lost and we got beaten up. But our defense didn’t get steamrolled quite as much as it looked. We stuffed 19 of 34 first down runs for 3 yards or less. Second and third down were more damaging to us (9-20 total on runs). Duke proved that doing the same thing over and over again is not insane if it produces better results as you go along. Our horrendous third down performance (2-9) kept giving the ball back to Duke so they could keep pounding away. People always want us to pass more on first down. We did in this game, passing 15 times and running only 7 times on first down. After establishing the run vs. Georgia tech and using that to set up the pass, we made no attempt to do so in this game. First down is the easiest down to pass on because defenses are geared to stop a run. Our first seven first down pass attempts produced one completion for one yard and then 6 straight incompletions. We began our drives, on average, at our 29 with a total of 998 yards to score, (in 14 possessions). Duke started at it’s 26 with 956 yards to go, (in 13 possessions). Our normal advent age in this stat was muted because our takeovers, with one big exception, tended to come in our territory and stop Duke drives rather than setting up scoring opportunities for SU. This was a strange game. We were +4 in turnovers, which usually means not only victory but a rout. But they were +335 in rushing yards, which means the same thing. The result was a game that was actually close and very winnable throughout, even though we were getting beaten up. If we’d have kicked that field goal in the second quarter and if the refs hadn’t gone for the acting job of their missed field goal on the following possession, where they later scored a touchdown, that’s a 10 point swing right there. We dropped at least 4 passes that could have bene first downs or touchdowns. I remember an early run by Sean Tucker in which he was breaking away but a wide receiver blocked his man into Sean rather than away from him. Then there were the two dropped interceptions. In both cases, the flow of the play was away from the direction Trill Williams and Mikel Jones were running in order to catch the ball. It’s easy to imagine Trill going all the way to score and perhaps Mikel might have bene able to do so as well. How different would our current rhetoric have been if even 2-3 of those plays went out way? Of course any time your opponents punted once, you probably lost. So this game wound up 79-104 in plays won, -25. The most similar games of the Babers era: 2016: Syracuse 95 South Florida 116 = -21 We lost 20-45 2016: Syracuse 72 Wake Forest 101 = -29 We lost 9-28 2017: Syracuse 80 Louisiana State 103 = -23 We lost 26-35 2019: Syracuse 78 North Carolina State 100 = -22 We lost 10-16 2019: Syracuse 92 Pittsburgh 114 = -22 We lost 17-35 [/QUOTE]

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