Final preseason SP+ rankings for all 134 groups and survey

• Expense Connelly, ESPN Personnel WriterAug 13, 2024, 07:07 AM ET

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offseason is nearly over, and what might be the most awaited college football season in ages is upon us. We have actually got brand-new extremely megaconferences to sort through and an expanded 12-team CFP with all its inclusiveness to prepare for. According to ESPN Analytics, 47%of the groups have at least a 5%possibility of reaching the playoff. But first: SP+rankings and projections!Below are my final SP+forecasts for the 2024 college football season. As constantly, these are based upon 3 primary aspects: returning production (final rankings for which you can find at the bottom of this piece), current recruiting and recent history. How good have you been recently? Whom do you have returning? How great are the players changing those you don’t have returning? That’s loosely what we ask when we’re setting expectations for a group; it’s likewise what these projections try to do objectively.As always: SP +is a tempo-and opponent-adjusted procedure of college football performance. It is a predictive step of the most sustainable and foreseeable elements of football, not a résumé ranking, and, along those exact same lines, these forecasts aren’t intended to be a guess at what the AP Top 25 will appear like at the end of the year. These are simply early offseason power rankings based on the info we have been able to collect to date.