Michigan needed to put together a solid 60 minutes of football on Saturday, and it certainly did to the tune of a 45-20 victory over Maryland. However, the win didn’t do much to change its advanced metrics, as Michigan didn’t move in the latest edition of ESPN and Bill Connelly’s SP+ rankings after Week 13.

For those of you who might be unfamiliar with SP+, Connelly calls it, “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 and boils them down to one uniform metric that can be used to predict how many points a given team would beat (or lose to) the “average” college football

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