Syracuse, N.Y. -- Syracuse football stumbled into one of the nation's best kickers with a LinkedIn message and a phone call from his older sister.
That's how Dave Boller first got wind of Andre Szmyt, who is sailing balls through the goal posts this season at a rate unmatched in college football history.
Szmyt has scored a nation-leading 103 points and has recorded at least 10 points in each of the team's first eight games. The school's single-season scoring record is 128, set by former running back Walter Reyes in 2003.
His 21 field goals have already eclipsed Cole Murphy's single-season record of 20 from a year ago, and the redshirt freshman from Vernon Hills, Ill.