With the latest update to the SP+ rankings, Texas A&M football has moved up a couple of spots. The Aggies are now the 13th-ranked team in Bill Connelly's proprietary advanced statistical profiling system for college football teams, which is their best preseason rank in the past three years.
In the previous rankings that were released following spring ball, the Aggies ranked 15th. Texas A&M's raw rating has risen from 17.2 to 18.3, which is an interesting tidbit in and of itself, given that most of the teams on the list had their raw ratings fall from the last set of rankings to this one.