“Way too early” college football projections and rankings have been out since before the national championship even got underway back in January and we tend to soak all of them up.
Along those lines, Bill Connelly released his first SP+ projections on Valentine’s Day. His SP+ projections are used as a predictive measure, not as a traditional top 25 rankings method.
SP+ brings in returning production, recruiting and transfer portal successes, and recent team success (or lack thereof) into account to determine its rankings.
So what did Connelly’s rankings say about Notre Dame and the rest of the top 25 in mid-February?
Below is how the top 25 checked in and included are overall, offense, defense, and special teams rankings on SP+.