Pop quiz: When has giving up 76 points ever been a good sign for a college football team?
I’m too lazy to actually figure out if that’s anything more than a rhetorical question, but the answer as far as I’m concerned is...once.
The Syracuse Orange scored 61 points on Saturday, which is something they hadn’t done since 2002 (63 points vs. Rhode Island) and hadn’t done against an FBS team since 2000 (63 points vs. Buffalo).
As you well know, that 61 points wasn’t good enough because their opponents, the Pittsburgh Panthers, scored 76 points en route to victory in the highest-scoring game in FBS history.