For the 2025 season, CBS Sports doesn't think Syracuse football will be the best team in New York state.
Say what now?
Look, all these preseason prognostications that come from national and Atlantic Coast Conference pundits are made with good intentions, and they mean nothing in the long run. But they're still fun to debate.
On Monday, I took issue with the preseason Associated Press top-25 poll. The Orange wasn't ranked, nor receiving votes, and I get it. Some of the teams included over the 'Cuse, though, were head-scratchers to me.