ESPN Releases 2023 College Football SP+ Top 25

ESPN’s Bill Connelly released his initial SP+ Top 25 rankings Tuesday morning and pegged LSU at No. 7.

The SP+ rankings are based on three factors; returning production, recent recruiting, and recent history.

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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.

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Here is ESPN’s full SP+ top 25:

1. Georgia
2. Ohio State
3. Michigan
4. Alabama
5. Penn State
6. Tennessee
7. LSU
8. Oregon
9. Texas
10. USC
11. Florida State
12. Clemson
13. Utah
14. Oklahoma
15. Notre Dame
16. Washington
17. Texas A&M
18. Ole Miss
19. TCU
20. Florida
21. UCLA
22. Kansas State
23. Mississippi State
24. Kentucky
25. Wisconsin