The last time we published win projections from four football computing machines (S&P+, FPI, Massey, and Sagarin), Syracuse was staring at a year that would yield a 5-7 record. That may not have made the I Want Wins and Now! Society of Angry Internet Commenters happy, but it wasn’t a bad launchpad for a year in which reasonable breaks in Syracuse could generate inflated win totals. Those breaks — when viewing Syracuse’s existence in a vacuum and as part of the greater universe of college football — are starting to come to fruition: Having rerun simulations 10,000 times after this weekend’s games, a blended analysis of the four computing machines illustrate the Orange as finishing the season right around the 7.
Football computing machines offer a rosy Syracuse forecast at the season’s quarter pole
