Column: Syracuse allowed a win to slip from its grasp against Stanford Friday night. While it’s too early to count them out, the path for the Orange in a wide-open ACC suddenly looks much more difficult.

Emmet Kenney hit his fourth field goal of the day with time expiring to give the Stanford Cardinal a 26-24 win over the Syracuse Orange. It’s the first loss of the Fran Brown era. Before the game, Syracuse already found itself on the back foot with inactive players.

There has been a lot of chatter over how Stanford will handle being in the ACC, which comes with a lot of extra travel baked into their schedules across sports. In their first game on the football field on the road,