Where is Penn State ranked in ESPN’s 2023 SP+ rankings?
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.
Wisconsin Badgers
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Overall Rating: 14.3
Offense: 30.7
Defense: 16.4
Kentucky Wildcats
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Overall Rating: 14.5
Offense: 28.5
Defense: 14.0
Mississippi State Bulldogs
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Overall Rating: 14.8
Offense: 37.0
Defense: 22.3
Kansas State Wildcats
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Overall Rating: 14.8
Offense: 36.1
Defense: 21.4
UCLA Bruins
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Overall Rating: 15.0
Offense: 40.2
Defense: 25.2
Florida Gators
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Overall Rating: 15.1
Offense: 37.3
Defense: 22.2
TCU Horned Frogs
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Overall Rating: 15.4
Offense: 36.5
Defense: 21.1
Ole Miss Rebels
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Overall Rating: 16.7
Offense: 38.5
Defense: 21.8
Texas A&M Aggies
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Overall Rating: 16.9
Offense: 29.7
Defense: 12.8
Washington Huskies
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Overall Rating: 18.7
Offense: 41.9
Defense: 22.3
Notre Dame Fighting Irish
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Overall Rating: 18.9
Offense: 36.6
Defense: 17.7
Oklahoma Sooners
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Overall Rating: 18.9
Offense: 41.2
Defense: 22.3
Utah Utes
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Overall Rating: 19.0
Offense: 39.5
Defense: 20.5
Clemson Tigers
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Overall Rating: 20.0
Offense: 36.4
Defense: 16.5
Florida State Seminoles
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Overall Rating: 20.9Offense: 36.6
Defense: 15.7
USC Trojans
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Overall Rating: 21.3
Offense: 45.3
Defense: 24.1
Texas Longhorns
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Overall Rating: 21.4
Offense: 39.2
Defense: 17.8
Oregon Ducks
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Overall Rating: 21.6
Offense: 44.2
Defense: 22.7
LSU Tigers
Credit: Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports
Overall Rating: 23.5
Offense: 41.1
Defense: 17.5
Tennessee Volunteers
Credit: Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports
Overall Rating: 24.1
Offense: 46.0
Defense: 21.8
Penn State Nittany Lions
Penn State freshman running back Nick Singleton takes off on a 30-yard run to score his second touchdown against Minnesota at Beaver Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022, in State College.
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Overall Rating: 24.4
Offense: 37.9
Defense: 13.5
Alabama Crimson Tide
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Overall Rating: 27.5
Offense: 43.4
Defense: 15.9
Michigan Wolverines
Credit: Joseph Maiorana-USA TODAY Sports
Overall Rating: 28.8
Offense: 41.8
Defense: 13.0
Ohio State Buckeyes
Credit: Joseph Maiorana-USA TODAY Sports
Overall Rating: 30.0
Offense: 46.3
Defense: 16.3
Georgia Bulldogs
Georgia running back Kenny McIntosh (6) celebrates with Georgia wide receiver Marcus Rosemy-Jacksaint (1) after scoring touchdown during the first half of a college football game between Samford and Georgia in Athens, Ga., on Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022.
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Overall Rating: 31.7
Offense: 42.4
Defense: 10.7
