Syracuse averages nearly 43 points per game, but you’d never know it looking at the advanced statistics, so I got to wondering about the disconnect there. This offense checks most of the boxes you’d look for: 5.9 yards per play, with an average of well over 200 yards rushing and passing per game.
None of those numbers are adjusted for schedule strength, mind you, which is partly the tell: Syracuse has played exactly one team in the S&P+ top-70, and while it managed a heroic effort in that one game (against Clemson), it lost.
Basically, when you strip everything away and look at the underlying performance, neither Syracuse’s offense, nor the team’s results in general, are especially impressive.