ESPN Updates 2025 College Football Power Index: Best Matchups & Title Odds

LSU is ranked No. 12 in ESPN's 2025 FPI rankings with a 30.3-percent chance of making the College Football Playoffs and a 1.8-percent chance of winning the National Championship.

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Just to refresh our memories, the FPI is a predictive rating system that estimates each FBS team's strength (in points per game relative to the national average) on offense, defense and special teams, making adjustments for starters lost, recruiting talent and other personnel changes. Those numbers are then plugged into the schedule, and everything is simulated 20,000 times to track each team's odds of winning its conference, making the playoff and advancing through to the national title.

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Here are some other tidbits from ESPN's FPI projections article:

-The SEC is projected to get 4.6 teams into the CFP with a 61.4 percent chance of winning the National Championship.

-The Big Ten is projected to get 2.9 teams into the CFP with a 25.8 percent chance of winning the National Championship.

-LSU is projected to have the 7th-best offense in college football in 2025, and the 19th in defense.

LSU will play in four of the "Most anticipated games of 2025 based on projected FPI ratings":

No. 12 LSU at No. 3 Alabama
No. 8 Texas A&M at No. 12 LSU
No. 12 LSU at No. 11 Clemson
No. 12 LSU at No. 13 Ole Miss