Bill Connelly’s interesting (and ridiculously accurate on the whole) college football S&P+ projection system preseason rankings are out. It’s always fun to see where Florida State and its opponents rank. And in general, it’s just a fun read.
And we can use these rankings to cobble together a rough season win total projection. This isn’t super scientific, and things will change, but February is an absolute dead zone for college football coverage.
FSU, unsurprisingly, is 28th. The Seminoles are just 6-10 in their last two conference seasons. They come in 15th in recruiting, 43rd in returning production, and 4th in weighted five-year average (definitions of these elements from Connelly, bellow).