With the 2022 college football season just under a week away, it’s time to look at where the UNC football program stands in the updated ESPN SP+ rankings.
Each season, ESPN puts out their SP+ rankings throughout the year to measure where teams rank in efficiency. Here is how ESPN describes it:
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.
So where does North Carolina stand in the preseason? The Tar Heels didn’t crack the Top 25, nor where they expected to but they did make the Top 40 as they checked in at No. 38 overall. UNC has an offense SP+ of 36.4 which is 14th in the country but on defense they are at 27.1 which is 59th.
The model projects UNC to have a total of 7.3 wins while winning 4.8 conference games.
UNC is behind ACC foes Clemson (5th), NC State (18th), Pitt (23rd) and Miami (29th).
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