We are deep into the offseason of college football, but if you’re here on this free Buckeye homer website, then you are here most likely looking for some Ohio State football content. After all, scarlet and gray on the football field looks good on any day.
To that end, we often check in on the SP+ Rankings that change throughout the offseason. ESPN’s resident analytics guru, Bill Connelly is the mastermind of such rankings and he updates them throughout the season and offseason as things change. By changes this time, there have been some transfer portal shenanigans, player departures, and other changes that have reshuffled the rankings from the last time we took a look at them.
In fact, OSU has moved up from where it was last time. So much so that we think you’re going to like where Ohio State is now in the latest ESPN SP+ Rankings (subscription required.
And if you’re wondering what kind of special sauce goes into the SP+ Rankings, Connelly describes it as so:
“SP+ is 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.”
Here’s a look at the top 25 of the rankings and where the Buckeyes are from No. 25 down to No. 1.