Pittsburgh -- The deeper into a season, the more intel becomes available on a team's strengths and weaknesses, areas opponents will look to avoid or exploit, dependent on personnel.
At the midway milepost of 2018, it sure feels as if Syracuse football has reached an inflection point in one of its most vulnerable areas.
Be it the spiffy, flash-and-dash of a Travis Etienne of Clemson or an unkempt, battering-ram attack of Pittsburgh, the book is out on how teams will look to pick apart the Orange defense in the backend of the schedule.
A brief respite comes with an open week, but football players' bodies don't often heal up as the weather starts turning for the worse and the season drags on into November; they wear down.