Winning Plays - The Boca Bowl (vs. South Florida)

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This season I will once again be charting Syracuse’s games in terms of “winning plays”. I look at the results of each play and decide which team got the minimum they wanted out of the play. Rather than making instinctive judgments, I use a formula:

- On first down, the offensive team wants to get at least a third of the way to a new first down: they will have two more plays before they might have to surrender the ball and if they gain that same amount of yards on each of those two plays, they’ll get the first down. If they don’t make it a third of the way to a new first down, the defense won the play.
- On second down, the offense wants to get at least halfway to a new first down by the same logic.
- On third and fourth down, they want to get the first down.
- Penalties, if added onto a play by the referees, are added on to the results above. If the offense gains 5 yards on first down but there was holding and they lost yardage instead, the defense won the play. If a running back made a 25 yard run on first and ten and the holding was 20 yards downfield, turning it into a 5 yard gain, that’s still a win for the offense. If the defense is penalized and it’s tacked on, again the net result is what is evaluated. The penalties I’ve listed negated the play entirely and are a “loss” for the penalized team and thus a win for their opponent.
- If a penalty was not tacked onto a play, it’s a lost play for the team being penalized. I'll count them separate from the other plays from scrimmage because I don't know if the intended play before the penalty would have been a run or a pass - so I wouldn't know where to put it in the chart below.
- A turnover is, obviously, a win for the team that wound up with the ball.
- On a kick-off a touchback brings the ball out to the 25 yard line. Teams still seem to be trying to kick the ball into the end zone and avoid a runback if they can, so any kick-off that results in the receiving team starting between their goal line and their 25 is a win for the kicking team. Beyond that, the receiving team wins.
- On a punt, a touchback takes the ball out of the 20. So any punt that results in the other team taking over from their goal line to their 20 is a win for the punting team. If the next change in field position is at least 40 yards, the punting team has also won the play.
- A successful place kick is, obviously, a win for the kicking team.
- Any play that results in a touchdown is, obviously, a win for that team that scores it.
- A “victory play” where a team accepts a loss just to let the clock run out, is a win for the offensive team.

I will indicate in parenthesis how many yards there were to go to get a new first down, (if other than 10), unless it was for no gain or negative yardage. If it was a touchdown, (“TD)” a scramble/sack (“S”) a victory play (“V”) or involved a penalty (P). I’ll treat a scramble or a sack as a passing play as the Cuse.com play by play now tells you when it’s either of those two. 1R means first down running plays. 1P means first down passing plays, etc.

I have decided to list the “Big Plays” at the bottom of each team’s summary. A big play is a play from scrimmage of over 20 yards, (or 20+ yards lost), kickoff returns of +25 yards, punt returns of +20, blocked kicks, missed kicks, and takeovers on fumbles, interceptions and downs.

When Syracuse had the ball:

Drive Starts: SU18, SU23, SF28, SU17, SU25, SU27, SU23, SU32, SU25, SU25, SU40, SU17, SU25, SU42, SU20, SU17 = 448/16 = SU28 with 1,152 to go

KO: SF25
Total: Syracuse 1 South Florida 0
P: 38 to SF36, 31 to SF44, 54 to SF19, 35 to SF49, 49 to SF22, 34 to SF13, 30 to SF12, 34 to SF20, 38 to SF39, 3 to SU24
Total: Syracuse 5 South Florida 5
FG: Botched-TD
Total: Syracuse 0 South Florida 1
XP: none
Total: Syracuse 0 South Florida 0
Kicking plays total: Syracuse 6 South Florida 6

1r: 3, 0, 1, 3, 1, -6, 0, 0, 2, 3, 10, 0, 1, -3, 2, 0
Total: Syracuse 1 South Florida 15
1p: 33, 20, 16, 8, 5, I, I
Total: Syracuse 5 South Florida 2
First Down Total: Syracuse 6 South Florida 17
2r: 0, 2, -14, 6(7), 5(2), 1(7), 3, 2(9), 3(13), -2, 4, 3, 1
Total: Syracuse 3 South Florida 10
2p: Interception, I, I, I, Interception
Total: Syracuse 0 South Florida 5
Second Down Total: Syracuse 3 South Florida 15
3r: 5(8), -2, 5(7), 3(9)
Total: Syracuse 0 South Florida 4
3p: 10(12), 14(23), 2(15), I, Sack-Fumble-TD, I, I, I, 33(10), I, I, I
Total: Syracuse 1 South Florida 11
Third Down Total: Syracuse 1 South Florida 15
4r: 6(3), 1(2)
Total: Syracuse 1 South Florida 1
4p: none
Total: Syracuse 0 South Florida 0
Fourth Down Total: Syracuse 1 South Florida 1

Total on running plays: Syracuse 5 South Florida 30
Total on passing plays: Syracuse 6 South Florida 18
Total on plays from scrimmage: Syracuse 11 South Florida 48

Penalties not tacked onto plays: -5, -5, -5, -5 Syracuse 0 South Florida 4

Game total when Syracuse had the ball: Syracuse 17 South Florida 58

Big Plays: Fumble recovery, 53 yd pass, 20 yd pass, 33 yd pass. (4)


When South Florida had the ball:

Drive Starts: SF25, SF36, SF44, SF19, SF25, SF49, SU43, SF22, SF13, SU26, SF12, SF20, SF39, SU24 = 511/14 = SF37 with 889 to go.

KO: SU23, SU17, SU25, SU23, SU28, SU25, SU25, SU25
Total: Syracuse 3 South Florida 5
P: 45 to SU18, 41 to SU 27, 40 to SU 40, 19 to SU17, 40 to 42, 32 to SU20, 42 to SU17
Total: Syracuse 1 South Florida 6
FG: Good from 40
Total: Syracuse 0 South Florida 1
XP: Good, Good, Good, Good, Good, Good
Total: Syracuse 0 South Florida 6
Kicking plays total: Syracuse 4 South Florida 18

1r: 3, 3, 5, 4, 8, 0, 2, 2, 0, 3, 1, 2, 1(4), 6, 6, 7, 0, 4, -4v
Total: Syracuse 11 South Florida 8
1p: I, 11(5), Fumble, -2, 8(19), I, 16(25), 2(19), 13, I, 3
Total: Syracuse 8 South Florida 6
First Down Total: Syracuse 19 South Florida 14
2r: 9(7), 12(13), 3(6), 3(2), -2, 14(8), 4(2), 4(7), 8(7), I, 6(9), 12, 8(8), 1(3), 0, -2, 6(3), 4(11)
Total: Syracuse 7 South Florida 11
2p: I, 11(5), Fumble, -2, 8(19), I, 16(25), 2(19), 13, I, 3
Total: Syracuse 8 South Florida 3
Second Down Total: Syracuse 15 South Florida 14
3r: 3(1), 9(11), 7, 1(3), 7(9), 2TD
Total: Syracuse 3 South Florida 3
3p: 3(13), 6(3), 9(2), I, 5(17), 21(3), I, 8(6), I, -1(s)
Total: Syracuse 6 South Florida 4
Third Down Total: Syracuse 9 South Florida 7
4r: none
Total: Syracuse 0 South Florida 0
4p: 35TD
Total: Syracuse 0 South Florida 1
Fourth Down Total: Syracuse 0 South Florida 1

Total on running plays: Syracuse 21 South Florida 22
Total on passing plays: Syracuse 22 South Florida 14
Total on plays from scrimmage: Syracuse 43 South Florida 36

Penalties not tacked onto plays: +15 -5, -5, -10, -10, -14. -5, -5 Syracuse 7 South Florida 1

Game total when South Florida had the ball: Syracuse 54 South Florida 55

Big Plays: Return of botched field goal attempt, Sack fumble return-TD, 33yd pass, 31TD pass, Interception, Interception, 35TD pass, 21TD pass (8)

Overall Game Total: Syracuse 71 South Florida 113


Comments: When the game summary begins “KO: SF25” you know things did not go well. “XP: none” is similarly unhelpful. But the number that jumped out at me was our first down runs: 1 win 15 losses. In the three previous games in which we ran the ‘wildcat’, we were 17-11, 8-8 and 14-11 for a total of 39 wins and 20 losses. That’s what happens when the other team has 3 weeks to prepare and puts everybody “in the box”. Overall we ran 35 running plays and won 5 of them.

The flip side of that was that first down passes were wide open: we completed our first five of them for 82 yards. But we were 1-18 on all our other passes. Being 1-11 on third down passes and 1-15 overall on third down was still another horrible stat from this debacle. All told we ran 59 offensive plays and got the minimum of what we could have wanted 11 times, (18.6% of the time). I’ve never seen that stat that bad. When we beat Colgate 65-0 to start the season, they were 16-41, (28.1%) on offensive plays. When Wagner asked for the second half to be played in 10 minute quarters last year, they were 10-28, (26.3%).

Our kicking game didn’t help. We won only 7 of 13 plays and gave up a touchdown on a botched field goal attempt. The Bulls won 18 of their 22 kicking plays. Another bad stat for SU: (SF) XP: Good, Good, Good, Good, Good, Good.

The sad thing is that, aside from a two long TD passes they surrendered, the defense played well, certainly well enough to keep us in the game if the offense had been productive and if they and the kicking game had not produced horrendous big plays for USF. Our defense won 43 of 79 plays from scrimmage. But no one will ever remember. It will just be a 0-45 disaster to end the Babers era.

This was a -52 game (71-113), the worst of the Babers Era. Here are the most similar games:
2016 Syracuse 74 Clemson 120 = -46 We lost 0-54
2016 Syracuse 71 Florida State 120 = -49 We lost 14-45
2020 Syracuse 70 North Carolina 114 = -44 We lost 6-31
2022 Syracuse 66 Notre Dame 113 = -47 We lost 24-41
2023 Syracuse 61 Florida State 116 = -55 We lost 3-41
Having the other team run 40-50 more successful plays than you did is not a formula for success.

 

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TOTALS FOR THE YEAR

When SYRACUSE had the ball:

Drive Starts:
564/14 = SU 40 with 836 yards to go (+365)
301/12 = SU 25 with 899 yards to go (-15)
326/12 = SU 27 with 874 yards to go (-99)
443/12 = SU 37 with 757 yards to go (+77)
347/14 = SU 24 with 1,053 yards to go (-213)
268/11 = SU 24 with 832 yards to go (-133)
300/14 = SU 21 with 1,100 yards to go (-189)
295/12 = SU 25 with 905 yards to go (-87)
408/12 = SU 34 with 792 yards to go (+48)
342/11 = SU 31 with 758 yards to go (+112)
427/11 = SU 39 with 673 yards to go (+130)
196/9 = SU 22 with 704 yards to go (-143)
448/16 = SU 28 with 1,152 yards to go (-263)
4,665/160 = SU 29 with 11,335 yards to go (-410)

KO: 11-0 + 6-1 + 6-0 + 6-1 + 3-0 + 2-0 + 2-0 + 3-0 + 2-1 + 5-0 + 4-1 + 6-0 + 1-0 = 57-4
P: 1-0 + 4-0 + 1-2 + 3-0 + 4-1 + 5-1 + 5-3 + 6-3 + 4-1 + 2-2 + 3-0 + 0-1 + 5-5 = 43-19
FG: 1-0 + 2-0 + 0-1 + 3-0 + 0-1 + 0-0 + 1-1 + 1-0 + 1-1 + 0-1 + 1-1 + 0-0 + 0-1 = 10-7
XP: 8-1 + 6-0 + 5-0 + 2-1 + 2-0 + 1-0 + 0-0 + 1-0 + 1-0 + 4-0 + 1-2 + 5-0 + 0-0 = 36-4
Kicking plays total: 21-1 + 18-1 + 12-3 + 14-2 + 9-2 + 8-1 + 7-4 + 11-3 + 8-3 + 11-3 + 9-4 + 11-1 + 6-6 = 146-34

1r: 14-14 + 7-11 + 12-9 + 10-7 + 4-7 + 7-6 + 6-11 + 4-8 + 6-8 + 17-11 + 8-8 + 14-11 + 1-15 = 110-126
1p: 11-3 + 7-9 + 4-9 + 9-2 + 2-12 + 5-4 + 3-6 + 3-5 + 3-6 + 0-1 + 5-4 + 1-2 + 5-2 = 58-65
First Down Total: 25-17 + 14-20 + 16-18 + 19-9 + 6-19 + 12-10 + 9-17 + 7-13 + 9-14 + 17-12 + 13-12 + 15-13 + 6-17 = 168-191
2r: 12-5 + 8-3 + 5-4 + 10-6 + 8-4 + 5-2 + 6-6 + 2-2 + 4-5 + 13-6 + 12-3 + 13-9 + 3-10 = 101-65
2p: 7-5 + 5-9 + 7-6 + 3-2 + 7-3 + 6-6 + 1-8 + 5-5 + 3-4 + 2-3 + 2-2 + 4-1 + 0-5 = 52-59
Second Down Total: 19-10 + 13-12 + 12-10 + 13-8 + 15-7 + 11-8 + 7-14 + 7-7 + 7-9 + 15-9 + 14-5 + 17-10 + 3-15 = 153-124
3r: 4-2 + 2-1 + 5-0 + 0-4 + 6-2 + 2-3 + 2-2 + 0-1 + 3-3 + 8-5 + 2-7 + 7-1 + 0-4 = 41-35
3p: 7-4 + 5-5 + 2-5 + 3-4 + 3-6 + 2-3 + 4-13 + 0-8 + 0-3 + 0-3 + 0-1 + 5-4 + 1-11 = 32-70
Third Down Total: 11-6 + 7-6 + 7-5 + 3-8 + 9-8 + 4-6 + 6-15 + 0-9 + 3-6 + 8-8 + 2-8 + 12-5 + 1-15 = 73-105
4r: 0-1 + 0-0 + 0-0 + 0-1 + 0-0 + 0-0 + 1-0 + 0-0 + 0-0 + 3-1 + 2-1 + 2-0 + 1-1 = 9-5
4p: 0-0 + 0-0 + 0-1 + 1-0 + 0-1 + 0-0 + 0-1 + 0-0 + 0-0 + 0-0 + 0-0 + 0-0 + 0-0 = 1-3
Fourth Down Total: 0-1 + 0-0 + 0-1 + 1-1 + 0-1 + 0-0 + 0-1 + 0-0 + 0-0 + 3-1 + 2-1 + 2-0 + 1-1 = 9-8

Total on running plays: 30-22 + 17-15 + 22-13 + 20-18 + 18-13 + 14-11 + 15-19 + 6-11 + 13-16 + 41-23 + 24-19 + 36-21 5-30 = 261-231
Total on passing plays: 25-12 + 17-23 + 13-21 + 16-8 + 12-22 + 13-13 + 8-28 + 8-18 + 6-13 + 2-7 + 7-7 + 10-7 + 6-18 = 143-197
Total on plays from scrimmage: 55-34 + 34-38 + 35-34 + 36-26 + 30-35 + 27-24 + 23-47 + 14-29 + 19-29 + 43-30 + 31-26 + 46-28 + 11-48 = 404-424

Penalties not tacked on to plays: 0-2 + 4-4 + 6-1 + 0-2 + 3-2 + 0-4 + 0-2 + 0-4 + 1-6 + 1-3 + 1-4 + 1-2 + 0-4 = 17-40

Game total when SYRACUSE had the ball: 76-37 + 56-43 + 53-38 + 50-30 + 42-39 + 35-29 + 31-53 + 25-36 + 28-38 + 55-36 + 41-34 + 58-31 + 17-58 = 567-602

Big Plays: 12 + 8 + 13 + 8 + 5 + 3 + 7 + 2 + 5 + 8 + 5 + 6 + 4 = 86


When OPPONENT had the ball:

Drive Starts:
399/16 = Colgate 25 with 1,201 yards to go (-365)
316/12 = W Michigan 26 with 884 yards to go (+15)
325/11 = Purdue 30 with 775 yards to go (+99)
266/11 = Army 24 with 834 yards to go (-77)
560/14 = Clemson 40 with 840 yards to go (+213)
301/10 = North Carolina 30 with 699 yards to go (+133)
489/14 = Florida State 35 with 911 yards to go (+189)
382/12 = Virginia Tech 32 with 818 yards to go (+87)
360/12 = Boston College 30 with 840 yards to go (-48)
330/12 = Pittsburgh 27.5 with 870 yards to go (-112)
397/12 = Georgia Tech 33 with 803 yards to go (-130)
239/8 = Wake Forest 30 with 561 yards to go (+143)
511/14 = South Florida 37 with 889 yards to go (+263
4,636/150 = Opposition 31 with 10,925 yards to go (+410)

KO: 0-1 + 2-0 + 0-4 + 1-3 + 0-6 + 0-8 + 0-8 + 0-8 + 1-3 + 0-3 + 3-3 + 0-6 + 3-5 = 10-58
P: 3-6 + 1-5 + 0-2 + 2-3 + 1-5 + 0-1 + 0-4 + 1-2 + 3-2 + 0-5 + 4-0 + 0-1 + 1-6 = 16-42
FG: 0-0 + 0-0 + 0-0 + 0-1 + 1-1 + 0-4 + 0-2 + 0-5 + 0-1 + 0-2 + 0-1 + 1-1 + 0-1 = 2-19
XP: 0-0 + 0-1 + 0-3 + 1-1 + 0-4 + 0-4 + 0-5 + 0-3 + 0-2 + 0-1 + 0-4 + 1-3 + 0-6 = 2-37
Kicking plays total: 3-7 + 3-6 + 0-9 + 4-8 + 2-16 + 0-17 + 0-19 + 1-18 + 4-8 + 0-11 + 7-8 + 2-11 + 4-18 = 30-156

1r: 14-6 + 13-1 + 9-9 + 7-7 + 9-9 + 7-7 + 5-12 + 7-16 + 10-10 + 5-6 + 13-12 + 5-7 + 11-8 = 115-110
1p: 1-1 + 6-5 + 9-11 + 8-3 + 6-6 + 10-20 + 5-9 + 10-3 + 8-10 + 6-4 + 0-2 + 4-9 + 8-6 = 81-89
First Down Total: 15-7 + 19-6 + 18-20 + 15-10 + 15-15 + 17-27 + 10-21 + 17-19 + 18-20 + 11-10 + 13-14 + 9-16 + 19-14 = 196-199
2r: 3-3 + 2-4 + 3-4 + 4-8 + 3-7 + 4-14 + 2-6 + 8-13 + 5-11 + 4-5 + 0-9 + 4-6 + 7-11 = 49-101
2p: 9-3 + 9-10 + 8-9 + 5-4 + 9-5 + 8-6 + 9-5 + 1-4 + 9-6 + 3-5 + 7-4 + 2-2 + 8-3 = 87-66
Second Down Total: 12-6 + 11-14 + 11-13 + 9-12 + 12-12 + 12-20 + 11-11 + 9-17 + 14-17 + 7-10 + 7-13 + 6-8 + 15-14 = 136-167
3r: 4-2 + 2-1 + 3-1 + 4-8 + 1-4 + 4-6 + 1-5 + 2-6 + 5-10 + 1-0 + 2-1 + 1-3 + 3-3 = 33-50
3p: 9-1 + 11-5 + 4-3 + 2-3 + 5-6 + 4-5 + 4-7 + 5-3 + 5-0 + 5-4 + 4-2 + 1-6 + 6-4 = 65-49
Third Down Total: 13-3 + 13-6 + 7-4 + 6-11 + 6-10 + 8-11 + 5-12 + 7-9 + 10-10 + 6-4 + 6-3 + 2-9 + 9-7 = 98-99
4r: 0-0 + 0-0 + 1-0 + 0-3 + 0-0 + 0-0 + 1-0 + 0-0 + 1-3 + 0-1 + 0-0 + 2-0 + 0-0 = 5-7
4p: 1-0 + 4-1 + 2-1 + 1-0 + 1-0 + 1-0 + 1-0 + 0-0 + 0-0 + 0-0 + 0-0 + 0-1 + 0-1 = 11-4
Fourth Down Total: 1-0 + 4-1 + 3-1 + 1-3 + 1-0 + 1-0 + 2-0 + 0-0 + 1-3 + 0-1 + 0-0 + 2-1 + 0-1 = 16-11

Total on running plays: 21-11 + 17-6 + 16-14 + 15-26 + 13-20 + 15-27 + 9-23 + 17-35 + 21-34 + 10-12 + 15-22 + 12-16 + 21-22 = 202-268
Total on passing plays: 20-5 + 30-21 + 23-24 + 16-10 + 21-17 + 23-31 + 19-21 + 16-10 + 22-16 + 14-13 + 11-8 + 7-18 + 22-14 = 244-208
Total on plays from scrimmage: 41-16 + 47-27 + 39-38 + 31-36 + 34-37 + 38-58 + 28-44 + 43-50 + 24-25 + 26-30 + 19-34 + 43-36 = 446-476

Penalties not tacked on to plays: 6-2 + 3-0 + 4-3 + 2-0 + 3-4 + 3-2 + 2-0 + 2-2 + 0-1 + 1-1 + 2-1 + 3-2 + 7-1 = 38-19

Game total when OPPONENT had the ball: 50-25 + 53-33 + 43-50 + 37-44 + 39-57 + 41-77 + 30-63 + 36-65 + 47-59 + 25-37 + 35-39 + 24-47 + 54-55 = 514-651

Big Plays: 4 + 3 + 7 + 4 + 8 + 7 + 8 + 6 + 6 + 4 + 4 + 6 + 8 = 75

Overall Game Totals:
126-62 + 109-76 + 96-88 + 87-74 + 81-96 + 76-106 + 61-116 + 61-101 + 75-97 + 80-73 + 76-73 + 82-78 + 71-113 = 1,081 - 1,153

Comments:

We’ve kicked the ball 180 times and got what we wanted out of it 146 times, (81%). Our opposition has kicked the ball 186 times and got what they wanted 156 times, (84%). Football is still football.

Big plays often decide games but were +11 there and are 6-7 on the season. There weren’t enough big plays in the games we’ve played for them to be decisive. It’s hard to win if the other team is dominating the incremental but consistent plays, (consistently good rather than occasionally great)

Go figure: we are 110-126 on first down runs on offense but 101-65 on second down runs. Defensively we are 110-126 on first down runs but 49-101 on second down runs. I guess defenses are more ready for first down runs and have to think about the pass more on second down.

We’re also pretty good at stopping third and fourth down passes, 76-53. Those are two very good downs to dominate. But we are 38-57 against the run on those downs.

Our best to worst plays on offense:
4th down runs (9-5)
2nd down runs (101-65)
3rd down runs (41-35)
1st down passes (58-65)
1st down runs (110-126)
2nd down passes: (52-59)
3rd down passes (32-70)
4th down passes (1-3)

Defense:
4th down passes (11-4)
3rd down passes (65-49)
2nd down passes (87-66)
1st down runs (115-110)
1st down passes (81-89)
4th down runs (5-7)
3rd down runs (33-50)
2nd down runs (49-101)

I don’t think we faced a lot of really good passers this year. I know we didn’t have very many of them, either.

 

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HISTORICAL WINNING PLAYS (Babers Era – game totals only)

2016
Syracuse 101 Colgate 74 = +27
Syracuse 99 Louisville 132 = -33
Syracuse 95 South Florida 116 = -21
Syracuse 91 Connecticut 99 = -8
Syracuse 98 Notre Dame 111 = -13
Syracuse 72 Wake Forest 101 = -29
Syracuse 103 Virginia Tech 104 = -1
Syracuse 93 Boston College 84 = +9
Syracuse 74 Clemson 120 = -46
Syracuse 71 North Carolina State 103 = -32
Syracuse 71 Florida State 120 = -49
Syracuse 107 Pittsburgh 118 = -11
TOTAL: Syracuse 1075 Opponent 1282 = -207 We 'won' 2 of 12 games.

2017
Syracuse 132 Central Connecticut 65 = +67
Syracuse 104 Middle Tennessee 98 = +6
Syracuse 107 Central Michigan 100 = +7
Syracuse 80 Louisiana State 103 = -23
Syracuse 93 North Carolina State 112 = -19
Syracuse 97 Pittsburgh 96 = +1
Syracuse 95 Clemson 97= -2
Syracuse 86 Miami 119 = -33
Syracuse 90 Florida State 108 = -18
Syracuse 120 Wake Forest 125 = -5
Syracuse 96 Louisville 100 = -4
Syracuse 77 Boston College 87 = -10
TOTAL: Syracuse 1177 Opponents 1210 = -33 We ‘won’ 4 of12 games

2018
Syracuse 109 Western Michigan 96 = +13
Syracuse 139 Wagner 65 = +74
Syracuse 113 Florida State 77 = +36
Syracuse 109 Connecticut 83 = +26
Syracuse 86 Clemson 102= -16
Syracuse 99 Pittsburgh 97 = +2
Syracuse 113 North Carolina 115 = -2
Syracuse 113 North Carolina State 96 = +17
Syracuse 117 Wake Forest 107 = +10
Syracuse 124 Louisville 83 = +41
Syracuse 86 Notre Dame 99 = -13
Syracuse 110 Boston College 96 = +14
Syracuse 116 West Virginia 79 +37
TOTAL: Syracuse 1434 Opponents 1195 = +239 We ‘won’ 10 of 13 games

2019
Syracuse 104 Liberty 84 = +20
Syracuse 82 Maryland 112 = -30
Syracuse 77 Clemson 113 = -36
Syracuse 113 Western Michigan 99 =+14
Syracuse 110 Holy Cross 67 = +43
Syracuse 78 North Carolina State 100 = -22
Syracuse 92 Pittsburgh 114 = -22
Syracuse 96 Florida State 115 = -19
Syracuse 76 Boston College 119 = -43
Syracuse 107 Duke 78 = +29
Syracuse 85 Louisville 104 = -19
Syracuse 118 Wake Forest 111 = +7
TOTAL: Syracuse 1138 Opponents 1216 = -78 We ‘won’ 5 of 12 games

2020
Syracuse 70 North Carolina 114 = -44
Syracuse 78 Pittsburgh 89 = -11
Syracuse 108 Georgia Tech 102 = +6
Syracuse 79 Duke 114 = -35
Syracuse 77 Liberty 93 = -16
Syracuse 72 Clemson 112 = -40
Syracuse 76 Wake Forest 99 = -23
Syracuse 68 Boston College 96 = -28
Syracuse 76 Louisville 81 = -5
Syracuse 76 North Carolina State 108 = -32
Syracuse 82 Notre Dame 100 = -18
TOTAL: Syracuse 862 Opponents 1108 = -248 We ‘won’ 1 of 11 games

2021
Syracuse 86 Ohio U. 63 = +23
Syracuse 64 Rutgers 101 = -37
Syracuse 103 Albany 69 = +34
Syracuse 79 Liberty 83 = -4
Syracuse 79 Florida State 90 = -11
Syracuse 102 Wake Forest 92 = +10
Syracuse 79 Clemson 99 = -20
Syracuse 90 Virginia Tech 94 = -4
Syracuse 86 Boston College 79 = +7
Syracuse 56 Louisville 91 = -35
Syracuse 65 North Carolina State 88 = -23
Syracuse 67 Pittsburgh 95 = -28
TOTAL: Syracuse 956 opponents 1044 = -88 We ‘won’ 4 of 12 games

2022
Syracuse 92 Louisville 73 = +19
Syracuse 96 Connecticut 59 = +37
Syracuse 99 Purdue 92 = +7
Syracuse 88 Virginia 99 = -11
Syracuse 103 Wagner 28 = +75
Syracuse 89 North Carolina State 65 = +24
Syracuse 77 Clemson 102 = -25
Syracuse 66 Notre Dame 113 = -47
Syracuse 66 Pittsburgh 95 = -29
Syracuse 59 Florida State 100 = -41
Syracuse 82 Wake Forest 114 = -32
Syracuse 107 Boston College 79 = +28
Syracuse 85 Minnesota 84 = +1 We ‘won’ 7 of 13 games
TOTAL: Syracuse 1,109 opponents 1,103 = +6

2023
Syracuse 126 Colgate 62 = +64
Syracuse 109 Western Michigan 76 = +33
Syracuse 96 Purdue 88 = +8
Syracuse 87 Army 74 = +13
Syracuse 81 Clemson 95 = -14
Syracuse 76 North Carolina 106 = -30
Syracuse 61 Florida State 116 = -55
Syracuse 61 Virginia Tech 101 = -40
Syracuse 75 Boston College 97 = -21
Syracuse 80 Pittsburgh 73 = +7
Syracuse 76 Georgia Tech 73 = +3
Syracuse 82 Wake Forest 78 = +4
Syracuse 71 South Florida 113 = -52 We’ve ‘won’ 7 of 13 games.
TOTAL: Syracuse 1,081 Opponents 1,152 = -70
Totals since 2016: Syracuse has won 10,165 plays, (48.8%) and 39 games, (39.8%). The opposition has won 10,665 plays and 60 games. They’ve obtained their goals on 500 more plays than we have in 99 games, an average of 5.1 plays a game. And that closes the book on the Dino Babers era.

 

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The only winning move was not to play.