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Where is Penn State ranked in ESPN’s 2023 SP+ rankings?

ESPN’s SP+ is an early projections rating for the upcoming 2023 season. Where does Penn State rank compared to the rest of the top teams?

With college football in the rearview mirror, it’s never too early to start looking ahead to the 2023 campaign.

ESPN’s Bill Connelly put out his early SP+ rankings for the upcoming season.

The SP+ is a predictive formula that weights the three primary factors of returning production, recent recruiting and recent history.

Here is a note Connelly added to keep in mind about the rankings.

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.

There are now 133 Division 1 football teams. The SP+ ranks all of them and can be viewed here.

Here are the teams that are ranked in the Top 25.

LOOK: Michigan fan Ric Flair calls out Penn State football on Twitter

Ric Flair called out Penn State football on Twitter before kicking off against Michigan

One of professional wrestling’s biggest stars of all-time called out Penn State prior to Saturday’s home game against Michigan. Within hours of Penn State kicking things off against Michigan in Beaver Stadium in week 11, the one and only Ric Flair fired off a tweet to get his fellow Michigan fans excited, and draw the stinkeye from Penn State faithful.

“You’re going down today,” the Nature Boy proclaimed on his Twitter account. “Two claps and a Ric Flair WOOOOO!”

With all due respect, Penn State fans are likely hoping the Nittany Lions can give Michigan’s Big Ten title and College Football Playoff hopes a Shawn Michaels superkick to the face.

Flair’s adopted parents were from Michigan, and Flair says the Wolverines once attempted to recruit him to play football. Obviously, Flair went on to pursue a career in professional wrestling, and it is safe to suggest that worked out quite well for Flair in the long run. But Michigan has been smart to keep ties with Flair at every opportunity, and Flair seems receptive to shouting out his Wolverines and letting everyone know about it.

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