After 13 games and some hearty debate, the College Football Playoff field is finally set. After defeating Iowa in the Big Ten Championship on Saturday, Michigan went to the No. 1 spot in the final playoff rankings, and the Wolverines also held onto their spot as the No. 1 team in ESPN and Bill Connelly’s SP+ rankings.
For those of you who are new to SP+, Connelly describes it as, “a tempo- and opponent-adjusted measure of college football efficiency.” The measure can be used as an alternative form of ranking college football teams by projecting how many points a give team would beat (or lose to) the “average” college football team by.