The Syracuse Orange improved in a lot of spots for 2018, but special teams was critical in terms of setting the offense (previously fast but also inefficient) to score the second-most points per game in the school’s modern history. Having a Lou Groza Award winner was pretty nice too, as Andre Szmyt went from little-known walk-on whose name we couldn’t pronounce, to scholarship player and the best kicker in the country. It’s impressive how many crucially important special-teamers at SU have started out as walk-ons, no?
Along with our Syracuse position group previews each week, we’ve also taken a look at the rest of the ACC’s respective situations.