First off, let’s pour one out for the original 2020 Syracuse Orange football schedule.
After years of scheduling messes, SU has figured things out in recent years. The 2020 slate was potentially the crowning achievement of that, giving Syracuse four very winnable non-conference games that would potentially help coax a rebuilding and questionable squad to a bowl game just the same. I didn’t appreciate that fact enough when the schedule originally came together, and now, I’ll never get to see it in action. It was artfully crafted, really.
As you know, what’s replaced the old 2020 schedule is no cakewalk.