The Syracuse Orange football team improved by leaps and bounds in 2018. Reasons for that included a veteran line, a relatively healthy Eric Dungey, three years in Dino Babers’s system, one of the top special teams units in the country, an improved defense and of course, turnover luck.
Syracuse forced the third-most turnovers in the country last year, at 31 — just one behind Utah State and Ohio for the FBS lead. They were also the only Power Five team to force more than 30 on the year. Just eight (including the Orange) forced more than 25.