Michigan failed to put its best foot forward on both sides of the ball on Saturday night, losing to Oklahoma by a final score of 24-13. As such, the Wolverines took a pretty steep drop in the latest edition of ESPN and Bill Connelly’s SP+ rankings after Week 2.
For those of you who might be unfamiliar with SP+, Connelly describes it as, “A tempo- and opponent-adjusted measure of college football efficiency. It is a predictive measure of the most sustainable and predictable aspects of football, not a résumé ranking.” SP+ takes into account a team’s efficiencies on offense, defense, and special teams to form one uniform metric that can be used to predict how many points a given team would beat (or lose to) the “average” college football team by on a neutral field.
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