After finishing outside of the top 100 in a disastrous 4-9 season in 2017, BYU bounced back to finish 46 in Bill Connelly’s latest S&P+ Rankings. The ratings are through the New Year’s Day bowl games, with only the National Championship game remaining this season.
If you’re reading this and wondering what the S&P+ even is, it’s an advanced stats measures per-play performance adjusted for pace and opponent (unlike a metric like, total rushing yards).
The S&P+ Rankings had BYU at 76 in the first preseason rankings of 2018, so BYU managed to well outperform preseason projections.