On Friday, South Point sports book director Chris Andrews set initial over/under win totals for all 130 college football programs for the 2017 season. That list included the Syracuse Orange, which were given a pretty conservative four wins as the benchmark.
While we’re all pretty high on SU’s ability to improve this year (and some advanced metrics are too), there’s at least some sound reasoning for the four-win prediction. Syracuse hasn’t topped four wins since 2013, when the team won seven. In the three subsequent seasons, the Orange have won three, four and four games, respectively.