Syracuse football: Week 3 grades vs Purdue

Boy it wasn’t pretty, but somehow Syracuse got it done.

A slow start for the Syracuse Orange eventually turned into a nail-biting win as ‘Cuse toppled the Purdue Boilermakers 32-29 at the JMA Wireless Dome this past weekend. The Orange are 3-0 and preseason bowl hopes have gone from optimistic to likely.

But that doesn’t mean Syracuse played the cleanest game. Let’s break out the report card:

Quarterbacks: B-

The first two and a half quarters from Garrett Shrader featured a sharp regression to the mean.