The Michigan football team wasn’t in action this week, and despite being in the news for the wrong reasons all week, there’s still at least one thing going the way of the Wolverines. After the bye, Michigan still sits in the top spot of ESPN and Bill Connelly’s SP+ rankings.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with SP+, Connelly describes it as, “a tempo- and opponent-adjusted measure of college football efficiency.” The SP+ metric takes into account a team’s efficiencies on offense, defense, and special teams to generate one number that can be used to rank and predict the performance of college football teams.