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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 342180, member: 289"] The September Games: WAKE FOREST When Syracuse had the ball: On first down we ran the ball 16 times and ’won’ the play 6 of them. That’s 6-10. We passed the ball 11 times and also won 6 of those plays. That’s 6-5. On second down we ran the ball 11 times and won 6 plays. That’s 6-5. We passed the ball 8 times and won 2 plays. That’s 2-6. On third down, we ran the ball twice and won the play once. That’s 1-1. We passed the ball 9 times and won 5 times. That’s 5-4. There were no fourth quarter plays. That’s a total of 26 wins and 31 losses for SU on it’s offensive plays. On our 5 kick-offs, we won once. 1-4. On our 7 punts, we won 5 times. 5-2 We missed our one field goal attempt. 0-1. We made all five of our extra points, including a two point conversion. 5-0 When we were kicking the ball we had a total of 11 wins and 7 losses. Both teams had 6 penalties that were not part of the play result. 6-6. Both teams had one turnover. 1-1. That’s 7-7 on penalties and turnovers. When Wake Forest had the ball: On first down, they ran the ball 19 times and won 7 plays. 12-7, (Syracuse‘ score always first). They passed 16 times and won 8 of them. 8-8. On second down, they ran 14 times and won 5 plays. 9-5. They passed the ball 12 times and won 6. 6-6. On third down, they ran the ball 5 times and won once. 4-1. They passed the ball 13 times and won 6. 7-6. On fourth down they ran the ball twice and got the first down both times. 0-2. They didn’t pass on fourth down. On Wake Forest’s plays from scrimmage we won 46 and lost 35. They kicked off 7 times and we won 5 of them. 5-2. They punted 4 times and we won all of them. 4-0. They made 3 of 4 field goals. 1-3. They made 2 of 3 extra points. 1-2. When they were kicking the ball we won 11 and lost 7. By my assessment, we won 101 plays and lost 87. We won the game 36 points to 29 in overtime. We weren’t especially effective on offense until the later stages of the game. Our defense was on the field a lot but gave up ground grudgingly. We won the kicking game on both ends and the penalties and turnovers came out eve. They had a 37 yard pass play and scoring passes of 22 and 60 yards. We had a 53 yard TD run by Bailey and a 20 yard TD pass from Nassib to Provo and another 21 yard pass to Lemon. Most of the scores were on long drives. Basically the defense, after some early problems with the pass, hung in there until the offense got it going. RHODE ISLAND When SU had the ball: 1st down run 3-5 1st down pass 17-4 2nd down run 4-2 2nd down pass 5-6 3rd down run 2-5 3rd down pass 1-4 4th down run 0-1 4th down pass 2-0 Total: 34-27 SI kicking: Kick-offs 0-4 Punts 2-3 Field Goals 0-0 Extra Points 3-0 Total: 5-7 Penalties: 4-2 (two against us, 4 against them) Turnovers: 2-1 (they had 2, we had 1) Total: 6-3 When RI had the ball: 1st down run 9-4 1st down pass 9-4 2nd down run 8-2 2nd down pass 5-6 3rd down run 3-4 3rd down pass 6-1 4th down run 0-1 4th down pass 0-0 Total: 40-23 RI kicking: Kick-offs 2-1 Punts 4-2 Field goals 1-0 Extra points 0-2 Total: 7-5 We won 92 plays. Rhode Island won 65 plays. That surprised me as it was only a 21-14 game. We could never quite put this team away. They had a 26 yard touchdown run. Nassib had a 21 yard pass to Graham and a 20 yarder to Lemon. That was it as far as “big“ plays. We killed them on first down passes, (17-4) but were otherwise 17-24 on offensive plays. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA When SU had the ball: 1st down run 4-6 1st down pass 10-4 2nd down run 2-5 2nd down pass 5-6 3rd down run 1-1 3rd down pass 7-6 4th down run 0-0 4th down pass 0-1 Total: 29-29 SU kicking Kick-offs 1-3 Punts 2-3 Field goals 1-0 Extra points 3-0 Total: 7-6 Penalties: 4-4 Turnovers 1-1 Total: 5-5 When USC had the ball: 1st down run 7-6 1st down pass 9-9 2nd down run 4-6 2nd down pass 4-9 3rd down run 1-4 3rd down pass 3-6 4th down run 0-0 4th down pass 0-0 Total: 28-40 USC kicking Kick-offs 4-3 Punts 1-1 Field Goals 0-3 Extra Points 0-5 Total: 6-10 We won 75 plays. They won 90. We weren’t physically overwhelmed in this game. We basically lost it on their second and third down passes (7-15). They had scoring passes of 31, 44 and 43 yards and a couple more 20 yarders. They also had a 43 yard run. Nassib had a 20 yard pass to Bailey and 25 and 33 yarders to Provo. Alec Lemon passed to Van Chew for 28 yards and a score. Nassib completed his first 11 passes, running his streak to 22 in a row, starting in the Rhode Island game. But in the end, our offense just didn’t have the “explosiveness” the Trojans possessed. TOLEDO When SU had the ball: 1st down run 11-9 1st down pass 3-3 2nd down run 7-5 2nd down pass 5-5 3rd down run 4-3 3rd down pass 3-6 4th down run 0-0 4th down pass 1-1 Total: 34-32 SU kicking Kickoffs 1-6 Punts 3-1 Field Goals 4-0 Extra Points 3-0 (officially) Total: 11-7 Penalties: 1-3 Turnovers: 1-1 Total: 2-4 When Toledo had the ball: 1st down run 11-4 1st down pass 4-12 2nd down run 6-6 2nd down pass 9-6 3rd down run 3-5 3rd down pass 6-4 4th down run 1-1 4th down pass 0-0 Total: 40-38 Toledo kicking Kick-offs 5-0 Punts 4-1 Field Goals 0-3 Extra Points 0-3 Total: 9-7 This was as close as it gets: an overtime game with a controversial call on an extra point. It showed in the plays: we won 96. They won 88. We won two more offensive plays and two more defensive plays than they did. Most of the margin was in our kicks but if that call had been made correctly, things might have wound up differently. There were not a lot of long plays in this game. Eric Page caught a 42 yard pass. Nassib had a 24 yard pass to Chew. The most remarkable thing was Toledo’s 21 play 10 ½ minute drive to open the game after we’d deferred to them. This was the game for which Nathaniel Hackett announced “We’re going to play Doug Marrone football- we’re going to run the ball! And that’s what they did. In the previous two games we’d passed the ball 35 times on 1srt down and gotten 27 successful plays out of it. We’d run the 19 times and gotten 7 good plays In this game, we ran the ball 20 times on first won and won 11 of them. We only passed the ball 6 times and won three of them. We continued this trend for three more games ,then went back to passing more on first down. From Toledo through West Virginia, the mix was 78 runs and 38 passes, winning 40 of the running plays and 17 of the passing plays. But we won three of those four games. [/QUOTE]

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