The Oneida Daily Dispatch (Oneida, NY)

No. 13Syracuse ona roll

- By John Kekis

Babers, the Orange are 1-0 in November, the month that has been their Achilles’ heel, mainly because of injuries. Instead of reeling — Syracuse was 1-11 in November the previous three years — the Orange are on a roll with three straight ACC wins, including two in a row without a turnover, and know they’ll finish the regular season withawinni­ng record. They went 4-8 twice under Babers and once under former coach Scott Shafer.

The win over Wake Forest snapped the Orange’s eight-game conference losing streak.

“It’s a huge thing. Winning on the road is a huge accomplish­ment for us,” quarterbac­k Eric Dungey said. “Hopefully, it’s the first of four (Novemberwi­ns). Everyone’s together. I think it’s just everybody really bought in. The past couple of years we’ve been through a lot.”

Babers attributes much of the team’s good fortune to a change in the way he’s approached the season, and it started in spring ball.

“I took a lot of planning into trying my best to make sure this team came to November healthy. We changed up a lot of stuff,” Babers said Monday. “We did not do things exactly the same. That’s the definition of insanity. “I wasn’t sure if those things

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 ?? CHUCK BURTON — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ?? Syracuse’s Eric Dungey (2) looks to pass against Wake Forest in the first half of an NCAA college football game in Charlotte, N.C., last Saturday.
CHUCK BURTON — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Syracuse’s Eric Dungey (2) looks to pass against Wake Forest in the first half of an NCAA college football game in Charlotte, N.C., last Saturday.

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