It wasn’t pretty but when it ends in a Syracuse Orange win, does it really matter? The Orange couldn’t get out of their own way for most of the afternoon, but the Purdue Boilermakers decided they would be good visitors and hand the Orange a present.
The box score shows a 32-29 Syracuse win and that brings the Orange to 3-0 with the Virginia Cavaliers coming to town on Friday night. Here are three takeaways from a game I followed via television, radio and Twitter.
Syracuse overcame adversity
It was one of the areas I questioned coming into today as the first two weeks were (penalties aside) pretty-smooth for a Syracuse offense which never faced a deficit.