No, the Syracuse Orange didn’t snap the program’s 17-year streak of being unranked. However, they came incredibly close after week four’s action in both the Coaches and AP polls that came out on Sunday.
Syracuse earned 83 votes in the Coaches Poll this week, and was just three spots outside of the top 25. Without digging around TOO far, it’s as close as the Orange have come to actually being included in the top 25 since at least 2003 (and probably the full run since the end-of-season poll in 2001).
SU was 11 spots outside of the top 25 in the AP Poll, though, with only 25 votes (compared to two last week).