Michigan got its season back on track with its first road win and conference win of the year after defeating Nebraska by a 30-27 final score on Saturday. As a result, the Wolverines have moved up a bit in the latest edition of ESPN and Bill Connelly’s SP+ rankings.

For those of you who are new to SP+, it’s a ranking system made by Bill Connelly of ESPN. In the words of Connelly, it’s, “a tempo- and opponent-adjusted measure of college football efficiency – SP+ is intended to be predictive and forward-facing. It is not a résumé ranking – so it does not automatically give credit for big wins or particularly brave scheduling.”

In other words, it’s a predictive measure based on a team’s offensive, defensive, and special teams efficiencies. These get boiled down to a rating that predicts how

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