http://espn.go.com/ncb/notebook/_/page/notebookweeklywatch1205/week-5

3. Winning on the road in conference play is just plain hard. Indiana was lucky to escape Penn State with a win Sunday afternoon. This weekend, many of their ranked comrades were far less fortunate. Florida lost at Tennessee. Duke barely survived an upset at the hands of Georgia Tech. Missouri got housed in the Octagon of Doom. Georgetown, a tough road team with wins at Louisville and Alabama, fell at West Virginia. Mississippi State gave up 98 points at Arkansas. UConn lost at Rutgers. The list goes on and on.

5. Syracuse just keeps on winning, too. The balance of the Orange's schedule set up very nicely these first few months, transitioning from an almost entirely home-oriented non-conference schedule to a first month of Big East play that includes no truly frightening road games.

so from point 3 , I get the point that all conference road games are hard. For example - Duke barely beat GT, a team who had, I think, exactly one conf. win all of last year, Winning conference road games sure is hard! Until I get to point 5, where its made clear to me that SU has no truly frightening road games....