Recapping Syracuse football’s first down offense in 2020

Matt Cashore-USA TODAY Sports Now that the season has ended we take a final look at the Syracuse Orange first down offense for the 2020 season. There’s been a lot of discussion here about the offense under first year OC Sterlin Gilbert and most of you are fine if this is it for Gilbert.

While I don’t think he deserves a ton of credit, he doesn’t deserve as much blame as he’s received. After two very poor games to start the season the Orange were able to find some success on first down. The problem is that like the rest of the downs it was often inconsistent and propped up by big plays. There is certainly plenty of areas at fault as both the players and coaches lacked the needed consistency…