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Daily Brews: Michigan in top five in current SP+ preseason rankings

The closer we get to the start of the 2022-23 season, coupled with the dust starting to settle from major players out of the transfer portal, there is no better time than now to start rolling out preseason projections.

Bill Connelly’s SP+ rankings are among the most looked at when it comes to projecting a team’s success. There are three factors that inform how these projections are made: returning production, recent recruiting and recent history. These power rankings are merely constructed from the most up to date information that has been gathered. So how did Michigan fare?

The Wolverines sit within the top five, earning the No.