Welcome back to the classroom where instead of Applied Trigonometry or Oceanography, you're taking Football-ology (patent pending).
Welcome to Breaking Math: Syracuse Football. Each week, we'll do our best to zero in on some fancy stats, where exactly the Syracuse Orange stand with them, and if it means anything. This space is typically reserved for Pregs, but he's busy. Sorry.
Last week, we discussed explosiveness, and in particular, Eric Dungey's effect on said success factor. This time around, it's a related topic: starting fast.
Four games into the 2014 season, we started tracking first down plays of five yards or more in the weekly play-calling breakdown.