I’m with Dabo Swinney. What is the FPI, and what does it have to do with anything related to college football?
During his appearance on ESPN’s College Football Live on Monday, Clemson’s head coach was asked to debate on which division is better in College Football, the ACC Atlantic or the SEC West. When ESPN came back from the commercial break it threw up a statistic that said the FPI (the football power index) had Florida State as a 51-percent chance of winning the ACC, while Clemson had a 38-percent chance.
As Swinney started to comment on the question, he paused for a second and asked, “What is FPI?