Syracuse Football: Top-5 bitter sweet oranges from loss to LSU

2. Cough drops

Butterfinger commercial…get it? No one gets my humor. But in all seriousness, SU had a serious case of drops and this isn’t the flu. This is a chronic disease that has plagued the Orange all season long. There were some key ones in the Middle Tennessee loss that made Orange fans look back at

More from Inside the Loud House

• Syracuse Football: Cuse boils Purdue, turns attention to Army on Saturday
• Syracuse football only team in country with top-5 scoring offense, defense
• Syracuse Basketball: 4-star Elijah Moore not in top 100, and I don’t get that
• Syracuse basketball 4-star west-coast recruit, in new rankings, into top 20
• Syracuse basketball is hitting D.C. market hard in pursuit of 4-stars, 5-stars

that game.

This LSU game will be another that you think, ‘what could’ve been’. The one that immediately jumps to mind is Eric Dungey buying time rolling out to the right on a critical third and long play and he finds Sean Riley wide open and throws a beautiful rainbow pass right in the bucket and Riley who was the hero last week, drops it in the middle of the endzone.

That’s a killer. In these games you need your big time players, to make big time plays, not drop them. SU ended up punting on fourth down (that’s a seven point swing). Speaking of momentum plays, as good of a player as Parris Bennett is, his hands need work.

He coulda, shoulda, woulda walked an interception into the endzone and put Syracuse right in the game. Bennett did everything right. He showed great awareness and anticipation analyzing the route and jumping in front of it, but failed the easiest and simplest part, catching the football. Although as you’ll see next, that was a theme throughout this ball game.