Returning production rankings for all 133 FBS teams

Brace yourself, good friends: We’re going to be talking about the Noles a fair bit in 2023. After winning their last 6 games of 2022 to finish with double-digit wins for the very first time in 6 years, Mike Norvell and Florida State have entered the offseason with the most returning production in all of the FBS.At the minute, FSU returns 87% of in 2015’s production– 80% on offense (11th total) and 94% on defense (2nd). The Seminoles blaze a trail in this year’s rankings, while other teams with interesting 2022 stories have plenty to be motivated about also. Kansas and UConn bowled for the very first time in 14 and seven years, respectively, and they rank 2nd and sixth in returning production. Michigan just made its 2nd straight College Football Playoff, with its second straight Big Ten title, and ranks a tantalizing fifth.Full 2023 SP

+ projections will run next week. As constantly, those forecasts come from three main concerns: How great has your team been just recently? How well has it recruited? And who returns from last year’s roster?The latter question is the focus these days’s conversation. While high or low returning production portions don’t guarantee an excellent or bad group, they do correlate well with enhancement and regression.For a couple of years now, I have actually been attempting to broaden how we

measure returning production. The formula I have developed shifts with each brand-new year of data and has actually had to move quite a bit with the current heavy boost in transfers.Here are the returning production portions and rankings for all 133 FBS teams.(Yes, there are 133 groups now.

Please welcome Sam Houston and Jacksonville State to the party!)