Where does Syracuse rank all-time among college football programs?

As if college football needed another reason to just rank things all the time, the sport’s 150th anniversary provides one just the same. The big one today is the 50 best college football programs of all-time — though with the extra wrinkle that this is across various levels so as to avoid being just a straight-up list of who’s won the most.

As a result, the Syracuse Orange aren’t on there, but the same can be said for various other Power Five programs with at least a semi-successful history. Miami (Ohio) and Central Michigan ARE on there, however, which begs questions of the methodology to some extent.

But that criticism aside, where does Syracuse actually rank if we’re looking at the numbers and trying to normalize for recency, etc?

The Orange are 30th in wins across Division I, II and III, and 22nd if you’re just looking at FBS squads. They’re 45th in bowl berths and tied for 26th in bowl wins. SU has won a national title and five conference championships (all since 1996). They’ve also seen some of the best players ever suit up for the team.

As we know, however, the highs for Syracuse have been high, but also infrequent. Beyond the impressive run from the 1950s through most of the 1960s, the late 1980s to late 1990s stretch and this past season, it’s a lot of average football. That doesn’t mean SU’s bad. It just means they’re a program that hasn’t had the same sustained success as some others, nor the recency others have displayed either.

I’d personally put Syracuse somewhere near 40ish, but there are probably cases to be made about them being both higher and lower than that mark. But what do you think? Feel free to share your own ranking and/or methodology below.

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