Auburn football just outside of top 25 in latest SP+ rankings
Auburn football has revamped its roster and on paper looks ready to compete in the SEC.
Hugh Freeze went out and landed the No. 2 transfer portal class in the country, which includes projected starting quarterback Payton Thorne (Michigan State), several offensive linemen, four high-profile receivers, defensive linemen at just about every position, linebackers, and an All-American kick returner to boot.
The Tigers are going to look a little different this season.
Bill Connelly of ESPN is the creator of their SP+ rankings, "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, and along those same lines, these projections aren't intended to be a guess at what the AP Top 25 will look like at the end of the year." Simply "early offseason power rankings based on the information we have been able to gather to date."
Connelly recently updated his rankings to account for all of the moving and shaking through the transfer portal this offseason. Auburn comes in at No. 27 in the rankings.
Above the Tigers in the SEC are Arkansas (No. 26), Mississippi State (No. 25), Kentucky (No. 22), Florida (No. 21), Ole Miss (No. 18), Texas A&M (No. 16), Tennessee (No. 6), LSU (No. 5), Alabama (No. 4), and Georgia (No. 1).
Connelly also has the Tigers ranked No. 8 in terms of potential impact their 2023 class has on their season.
You can check out the entire SP+ rankings here.
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