Michigan holds on to the top spot in this week's SP+ rankings after its blowout win over Nebraska.
Louisiana Tech Northern Illinois Those are primarily Group of Five teams and all teams outside of the top 60, so let's also show you the five top-50 teams that rose the most:Washington State moved up eight spots without even playing! That's a good bye week right there! Duke A number of highly-rated Pac-12 teams disappointed a bit -- USC struggled to put away the Colorado team that Oregon blew out, Utah fell to Oregon State due to destitute offense, and Washington struggled to put away...
SP+ continues to be lukewarm on Penn State despite another easy Nittany Lions win. PSU started slowly against a bad Northwestern team, and that evidently held them back a bit, especially considering the sea of very good teams it's trying to keep up with. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that if the Nittany Lions beat Ohio State and/or Michigan, the numbers will be suitably impressed.2. Pac-12: 8.9 average 7. Mountain West: -6.
As mentioned above, SP+ is intended to be a power rating, not a résumé evaluation tool, but Résumé SP+ attempts to fill that latter gap. It is a look at two things: how the average SP+ top-five team would be projected to perform against your schedule and how your scoring margin compares to . Throw in a seven-point penalty for every loss a team has suffered, and you can say that this is what the CFP rankings would look like if SP+ were in charge.
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