Chestnut Hill, Mass. -- Dino Babers, naturally, had a movie analogy for his team after it vanquished Boston College here, 42-20 to post its highest win total in a season in 17 years.
This group of seniors, Babers said, reminded him of a scene in "Saving Private Ryan," when the American soldiers needed to create a sticky bomb by stuffing explosive Composition B into a sock, coating it in axle grease and then latching it onto a tank to blow it off their path.
This group of seniors, in a breakthrough season that will end in a bowl game with an opportunity to allow Babers to be part of a 10-win team for just the seventh time in his career, blew out a tank of despair and losing that, too often, has kept the Syracuse football program from reaching such heights for nearly two decades.