Since the College Football Playoff rankings are on the horizon, I'm also including résumé SP+ rankings in this piece each week. As mentioned above, SP+ is intended to be a power rating, not a résumé evaluation tool, but résumé SP+ attempts to fill that latter gap. It is...
Below are the updated SP+ rankings after bowl season. What is SP+? In a single sentence, it's a tempo- and opponent-adjusted measure of college football efficiency. I created the system at Football Outsiders in 2008, and as my experience with college football and its stats ...
Further, Penn State is basking in the "all-in" perception that national media has cultivated for the program. Severaltoo-early college football rankingsthat emerged in January had Penn State listed as No. 1. The Nittany Lions have staked their claim by returning top ta...
Despite the win, the Cougars saw no movement in ESPN's SP+ rankings. They stay put at #53 heading into Week 12 of the college football season. Jake Dickert's team also has a slightly lower team rating this week, falling from 4.1 to 3.6. The Cougars have an offensive rat...
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The downward trend continues as the 'Noles landed at the No. 34 spot in ESPN'slatest SP+ rankingsafter yet another up-and-down performance. Quarterback DJ Uiagalelei went 16-for-30 for 201 yards and an interception (67 of those yards came on a single pass to Malik Benson),...
Bill Connelly has posted his revised rankings on ESPN+ (paywall.) He has also posted the top 10, 2023 recruiting classes, including portal pick-ups, future impact on the SP+ rankings. The SP+ algorithm focuses on three statistics - returning production,
On Wednesday, the Sun Devil football team took to the Kajikawa Football Practice Fields to continue improving as a team before the first game of the season onSept. 1against UTSA. Quarterbacks and centers arrived earlier than the rest of the team to practice taking snaps. The firs...
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San Diego State’s economical 19-13 win on the blue turf Saturday afternoon at Boise State comes with the added value of green. As part of a USA Today annual ranking of the major college football coaches’ best-to-worse in financial compensation that came out this week, the Aztecs’ 68-...