Training camp and the start of the 2024 college football season might still be a few months down the road, but it’s never too early to take a look at where Michigan is currently projected to stack up. Some of the latest projections come courtesy of Bill Connelly of ESPN, who recently released his post-spring SP+ rankings.
For those of you who might be unfamiliar to SP+, Connelly describes it as, “a tempo- and opponent-adjusted measure of college football efficiency.” It takes into account a team’s efficiencies on offense, defense, and special teams to create one rating that predicts how many points a team would beat (or lose to) the “average” college football team by.