ESPN Releases 2015 Preseason FPI

Last week, ESPN released their 2015 Preseason FPI ranking which is "designed to predict how strong each team will be this coming season" and ten SEC teams are ranked in the Top 25.

All 14 SEC schools are ranked in the top 52.

1. Ohio State
2. Alabama
3. LSU
4. Baylor
5. Oregon
6. TCU
7. Notre Dame
8. Ole Miss
9. Georgia
10. Arkansas
11. Texas A&M
12. UCLA
13. USC
14. Tennessee
15. Oklahoma
16. Michigan State
17. Stanford
18. Auburn
19. Clemson
20. Arizona State
21. Florida State
22. Mississippi State
23. Georgia Tech
24. Missouri
25. Virginia Tech

Others:
27. Florida
40. South Carolina
48. Kentucky
52. Vanderbilt

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FPI is an estimate of team strength – not a ranking of who will have the highest win total (which is dependent on schedule) and not who is most likely to make the College Football Playoff. Preseason FPI is calculated using three major components for each FBS team: prior years’ offense, defense and special teams efficiencies; returning starters and head coach information; and recruiting rankings.

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