Syracuse Football Breaking Math: Here's Just How Important Eric Dungey Is

Rich Barnes-USA TODAY SportsWelcome back to the classroom where instead of Applied Trigonometry or Oceanography, you're taking Football-ology (patent pending). This week's lesson is a nice easy starter: Explosiveness and Eric Dungey.

Welcome to our new weekly feature Breaking Math: Syracuse Football. Each week, we'll do our best to zero in on some fancy stats, where exactly the Syracuse Orange stand with them, and if it means anything.

First, a quick recap of the week: Syracuse backup quarterback Eric Dungey (our newest Lord and Savior) was knocked out of this past Saturday's game with an upper body injury. His replacement looks to be a JUCO transfer new to the Orange program, Zack Mahoney.

We…