The Syracuse Orange football team currently project as one of the top-60 teams in the country and 10th-best in the ACC heading into the start of the 2023 college football season, according to the latest round of analysis from ESPN and The Athletic.
The Orange rank 55th overall in ESPN’s final preseason SP+ rankings, a tempo-adjusted and opponent-adjusted measure of college football efficiency based on returning production, recent recruiting and recent program history. Syracuse sits at 42nd in defensive SP+ and 64th in offensive SP+ heading into the 2023 season, both of which are slight improvements compared to the program’s SP+ rankings at the end of the 2022 preseason (53rd in defensive SP+ and 77th in offensive SP+).