Of all of the questions I asked myself coming into the 2019 Syracuse Orange football season, one of the only ones that was never asked was “what if we don’t make a bowl game?”
Even in the (much-derided at the time) “how Syracuse will finish 5-7” piece, I spelled out a hypothetical hellworld I never actually bought into. For the first time in a long time, it seemed like Orange fans — self included — could breathe easy knowing that the worst-case was our old best-case. Clearly, we all fooled ourselves, to varying degrees.