The Syracuse Orange head down to Tampa, Fla. on Saturday with the hopes of earning a victory over the USF Bulls. A win would (SHOULD WE GET IT -- NOT JINXING IT) move SU to 4-1 on the season. It may not seem like a major accomplishment, but for a program coming off a 3-9 finish in 2014, we can celebrate these small steps.
It also ends up that Syracuse -- mired in a 15-year stretch of middling returns, as you know -- doesn't reach this plateau an awful lot. Or hasn't done so much in the last 25 years, anyway.