The Syracuse football team got off to a 3-0 start this season, the best start for the program since the same start to the 1991 season. That team started 4-0 and finished 10-2, including a win over Ohio St. in the Hall of Fame Bowl.
This season has turned out different for the Orangemen – they’ve lost six in a row since that 3-0 start, giving up at least 40 points in three of those games and 34 in another. It doesn’t get any easier for Scott Shafer’s squad as they host top-ranked Clemson this week in the Carrier Dome, something that Shafer says is a “heck of a challenge.