Putting Up Numbers· college football

Syracuse’s carries at home and away

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Syracuse was 4.5 carries under at home and 5.6 carries over away over its last 25 games, 10 games against 11. The plain averages are 33.4 and 39.7, a difference of 6.3. Both opponents outside the major colleges were at home.

Syracuse’s −10.1 at home vs away over expected ranks 136th of the 136 teams with 4 games on each side over their last 25 games through Oct 24, 2026.

carries a game over expected

A −10.1 difference in carries over expected at home vs away is rare: shuffle which games were at home and it comes up less than once in 100.

A −6.3 difference in carries at home vs away is unusual: shuffle which games were at home and it comes up 2 times in 100.

The games

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Syracuse’s games, last 25 games, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultcarriesExpected
Nov 2, 2024vsVirginia TechW3334.0
Nov 9, 2024@Boston CollegeL2529.6
Nov 16, 2024@CaliforniaW3529.9
Nov 23, 2024vsUConnW3032.9
Nov 30, 2024vsMiami (FL)W3228.2
Dec 27, 2024vsWashington State (neutral)W2530.9
Aug 30, 2025vsTennessee (neutral)L4437.9
Sep 6, 2025vsUConnW2742.3
Sep 12, 2025vsColgateW34—
Sep 20, 2025@ClemsonW3731.6
Sep 27, 2025vsDukeL2736.3
Oct 4, 2025@SMUL3338.4
Oct 18, 2025vsPittsburghL3035.4
Oct 25, 2025@Georgia TechL3436.0
Oct 31, 2025vsNorth CarolinaL3138.6
Nov 8, 2025@Miami (FL)L4329.1
Nov 22, 2025@Notre DameL5032.0
Nov 29, 2025vsBoston CollegeL4137.4
Sep 5, 2026vsNew HampshireW42—
Sep 12, 2026vsCaliforniaL3541.9
Sep 17, 2026@PittsburghL3836.2
Oct 3, 2026@UConnW4737.4
Oct 10, 2026@VirginiaL4736.7
Oct 17, 2026vsLouisvilleL3943.3
Oct 24, 2026@North CarolinaW4838.8

Method

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  • Expected is an offense and a defense a team, fit over every game of its season between two teams in the table with the game being read left out, plus 0.1 in 2024, plus 0.3 in 2025, plus 0.7 in 2026 for the home team (the edge the fit finds once strength is in), nothing at a neutral site.
  • Each expected number is then fit to the season’s games: a game bears out about 73% in 2024, 74% in 2025, 61% in 2026 of the difference the model predicts.
  • The shuffle keeps the season’s shape: the games are cut in two where one date leaves the least variance, each game is read against its stretch, and the sides are shuffled only inside each stretch.
  • Colgate, New Hampshire have no other game in the table, so those games have no expected number and sit out the second figure.
  • Read against the season’s ratings as of Nov 4, 2026; the games are the ones through Oct 24.