Through the first half of Friday night’s 34-18 Camping World Bowl win, there was something iffy about the Syracuse Orange offense.
SU was up 14-12, but the West Virginia Mountaineers generated pressure with relative ease and had Eric Dungey on the run for what felt like 30 straight minutes. The senior Orange quarterback was just 7-of-14 for 110 yards, and was sacked five times. I said on Twitter that he was playing a bit of “hero ball” and pressing too much. I saw several Syracuse fans calling for Tommy DeVito to take the reins, as was typical when Dungey struggled early at any point this year.