Pro Football Focus, known by the masses by its acronym form PFF, has released its initial top-25 rankings for the upcoming college football season, primarily basing its rankings on the “PFF grade” for returning players who ranked highest on the grading scale during and after the 2021 season.
PFF explains the process as “PFF assigns a grade for every play to each player during a football game” and their grading scale is described as “Each player is given a grade of -2 to +2 in 0.5 increments on a given play with 0 generally being the average or “expected” grade.”
With that, the grading scale was used to analytically rank the best teams for the upcoming college football season, leaving a lot of room for debate and discussion among fan bases.