Syracuse head coach Dino Babers answers a question during an NCAA college football news conference at the Atlantic Coast Conference media days in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday, July 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond)

FILE - Syracuse quarterback Tommy DeVito (13) scrambles to avoid North Carolina defender Jahlil Taylor (52) in first half of an NCAA college football game in Chapel Hill, N.C., in this Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020, file photo. Syracuse success will depend on a defense that finished 112th overall in 2020, and an offense that struggled behind two-year starter Tommy DeVito, who missed much of last season with an injury.(Robert Willett/The News & Observer via AP, Pool, File)

FILE - Then-Mississippi State quarterback Garrett Shrader (6) sets up to pass against Mississippi during the first half of an NCAA college football game in Starkville, Miss., in this Thursday, Nov. 28, 2019, file photo. Dino Babers starts his sixth season at Syracuse and there's nowhere to go but up. Syracuse finished 112th overall in 2020, with an offense that struggled behind two-year starter Tommy DeVito, who missed much of last season with an injury. Dual-threat quarterback Garrett Shrader, a transfer from Mississippi State, is in the mix now. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)