We’ve reached the dead zone as football fans. Sure, the USFL and XFL start shortly but with the Super Bowl coming and going last weekend we’re without the NFL or a competitive college football game again until late August.
However, it’s not too early for Bill Connelly to get you ready for some (college) football. Earlier this week, he released with ESPN, the 2023 preseason college football SP+ rankings.
All teams were ranked from 1-133 but for the sake of this post, we’ll keep it to the top 25.
About S&P – from Connelly:
A reminder on SP+: It’s a tempo- and opponent-adjusted measure of college football efficiency. It is a predictive measure of the most sustainable and predictable aspects of football, not a résumé ranking, and, along those same lines, these projections aren’t intended to be a guess at what the AP Top 25 will look like at the end of the year. These are simply early offseason power rankings based on the information we have been able to gather to date.
Where does Notre Dame rank? And where do the biggest names they’ll face in 2023 — Clemson, USC and Ohio State rank? Check out the top 25 teams along with their overall ratings below.