Why the Syracuse Orange will finish 7-5 in 2019

Rich Barnes-USA TODAY SportsEd. Note -- As has become (a beloved?) tradition, TNIAAM writers will spend the week telling you why this year’s Syracuse football team will finish with a specific record. Predictions get better as we progress, so hopefully you’re done lobbing scorn at us by Wednesday or Thursday.

Wednesday: 7-5 (Steve)

Thursday: 8-4 (Andy)

Friday: 9-3 (Some guy Sean)

Over the past few seasons, predicting what a Syracuse Orange football team would do in the preseason may have been based on shaking a magic 8-Ball. You could have had a 2-10 result, a 6-6 result, or what we actually got... several years at 4-8, with varying degrees of competitiveness. After last season’s 10-3 campaign,…