Given how poorly most of us usually fare projecting Syracuse Orange football win-loss records before they happen, I’ll admit it’s tough to really get a read on the sort of season ahead of us going in.
As we’ve seen many times, we think we know what our offensive line looks like until we don’t. The quarterback situation seems cut-and-dry until it doesn’t. A running back emerges. A linebacker doesn’t. The coaching goes off the rails. Injuries mount at an alarming pace.
For a program that doesn’t bring in much elite talent each year, there are just too many variables and too little consistency over the last two decades to try and accurately peg what a given season will look and feel like in August.