All season long we’ve been tracking the Syracuse Orange first-down offense. We haven’t seen a lot of success when it comes to getting the team in second and short situations. Despite the overall offensive numbers on Saturday there was a strong showing from the Orange when it came to running the ball on first down against the Duke Blue Devils.
Yes some of the success came in garbage time but compared to most of the games this season Syracuse was putting themselves in positive situations. This was especially true in the second half when the Orange were able to run the ball and not expose Tommy DeVito to any unnecessary hits.