The S&P+ rating system has become a standard tool for college football analytics, especially when trying to predict the performance of every FBS team. Among UCLA football fans, Bill Connelly’s S&P+ projections have sparked a conversation about how the Bruins will do next season.
In the last few weeks, Connelly has released both his 2019 college football preview data for every Pac-12 team. Though he has the Bruins doing better than their 3-9 finish in 2018, it is not by much as he only has UCLA winning 4.9 games next season. That is in contrast to what several other writers have been publishing about the Bruins in Year 2 of the Chip Kelly era.