ESPN College Football Power Index 2023

[Fat Koko]

2023 College Football Power Index - ESPN

View the 2023 College Football power index on ESPN. The FPI is the best predictor of a team's performance going forward for the rest of the season.

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Rutgers ranked 78th, right up there with Appalachian State and UAB.

Colorado is the only Power 5 team ranked below Rutgers.

Rutgers has a 13% chance of 6 wins.

Three 2023 opponents, Ohio State, Michigan, and Penn State are ranked in the top 10.

 

[Knight Shift]

2023 College Football Power Index - ESPN

View the 2023 College Football power index on ESPN. The FPI is the best predictor of a team's performance going forward for the rest of the season.

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Rutgers ranked 78th, right up there with Appalachian State and UAB.

Colorado is the only Power 5 team ranked below Rutgers.

Rutgers has a 13% chance of 6 wins.

Three 2023 opponents, Ohio State, Michigan, and Penn State are ranked in the top 10.

 

[LotusAggressor]

We're doomed.

 

[Knight Shift]

We're doomed.

Indiana below us in win total, but we are ranked below them. Time will tell if we are better than NW. Not sure why MSU is ranked so high. As we all know, this pre-season ranking stuff is worthless. Ask Notre Dame.

 

[mdk01]

Indiana below us in win total, but we are ranked below them. Time will tell if we are better than NW. Not sure why MSU is ranked so high. As we all know, this pre-season ranking stuff is worthless. Ask Notre Dame.

True. The last year Notre Dame didn't make the preseason Top 10 was the year before they hired Knute Rockne.

 

[MADHAT1]

Rutgers has a 13% chance of 6 wins.

Three 2023 opponents, Ohio State, Michigan, and Penn State are ranked in the top 10.

of winning all 3 of those games

 

[RU#1fan]

2023 College Football Power Index - ESPN

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Rutgers ranked 78th, right up there with Appalachian State and UAB.

Colorado is the only Power 5 team ranked below Rutgers.

Rutgers has a 13% chance of 6 wins.

Three 2023 opponents, Ohio State, Michigan, and Penn State are ranked in the top 10.

Horrible
2.0 better stop this regression or he is gone.
This below average 2023 class is not helping his future

 

[mikemarc1]

Embarrassing

 

[realhoops2]

2023 College Football Power Index - ESPN

View the 2023 College Football power index on ESPN. The FPI is the best predictor of a team's performance going forward for the rest of the season.

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Rutgers ranked 78th, right up there with Appalachian State and UAB.

Colorado is the only Power 5 team ranked below Rutgers.

Rutgers has a 13% chance of 6 wins.

Three 2023 opponents, Ohio State, Michigan, and Penn State are ranked in the top 10.

This list is bogus. Rutgers beat Boston College and Indiana yet they are ranked below them. Northwestern won only 1 game and they are ranked higher also. Michigan State and RU had very similar result and played a close game on there field yet Michigan State is ranked 46 spots ahead.

 

[cicero grimes]

Well its only upwards from here.

 

[NickRU714]

This list is bogus. Rutgers beat Boston College and Indiana yet they are ranked below them. Northwestern won only 1 game and they are ranked higher also. Michigan State and RU had very similar result and played a close game on there field yet Michigan State is ranked 46 spots ahead.

Its a projection for 2023 not 2022.

 

[realhoops2]

Its a projection for 2023 not 2022.

I'm aware of that. Still doesn't justify RU's ranking vs the teams I mentioned

 

[ScooterSports]

ESPN FPI is always terrible in the preseason

 

[brgRC90]

That last hire really helped our reputation.

 

[BeantownKnight]

In my opinion, we're in last until this coaching staff and these players prove otherwise.

In that way, it's kind of liberating to not have to pay attention to these sorts of lists or listening to all of the experts.

 

[Knight Shift]

Its a projection for 2023 not 2022.

BC should be worse

 

[RUGuitarMan]

Ten teams from that top 40 will greatly under achieve. Ten teams outside that top 40 will greatly over achieve. Who will those teams be?

 

[colbert17]

One thing I noticed about the list is that all the teams have a record of 0-0.
I'm willing to wait until there are some numbers in that column to react.

 

[NickRU714]

BC should be worse

That may be.
Just saying "well we best them last year" isn't a great argument for ranking them below us for next year.

 

[colbert17]

Ten teams from that top 40 will greatly under achieve. Ten teams outside that top 40 will greatly over achieve. Who will those teams be?

Obviously one of the former will be ND. That's an annual given.

 

[ScooterSports]

If you guys really wanna see how off the ESPN FPI normally is, here’s the preseason FPI from last year

ESPN releases FPI College Football Top 25 for 2022

ESPN has released its Football Power Index rankings ahead of the 2022 College Football season. Here is the top 25:

www.on3.com

 

[koleszar]

2023 College Football Power Index - ESPN

View the 2023 College Football power index on ESPN. The FPI is the best predictor of a team's performance going forward for the rest of the season.

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Rutgers ranked 78th, right up there with Appalachian State and UAB.

Colorado is the only Power 5 team ranked below Rutgers.

Rutgers has a 13% chance of 6 wins.

Three 2023 opponents, Ohio State, Michigan, and Penn State are ranked in the top 10.

Did they just pick 60 through 90 out of a hat? Because a lot of them don't make sense if you watch a lot of college football.

 

[Knight Shift]

If you guys really wanna see how off the ESPN FPI normally is, here’s the preseason FPI from last year

ESPN releases FPI College Football Top 25 for 2022

ESPN has released its Football Power Index rankings ahead of the 2022 College Football season. Here is the top 25:

www.on3.com

But our own fans jump on this to mock RU and/or complain when the rankings are garbage.

 

[mdk01]

If you guys really wanna see how off the ESPN FPI normally is, here’s the preseason FPI from last year

ESPN releases FPI College Football Top 25 for 2022

ESPN has released its Football Power Index rankings ahead of the 2022 College Football season. Here is the top 25:

www.on3.com

Notre Dame preseason #5, final ranking #18

 

[mdk01]

Did they just pick 60 through 90 out of a hat?

Or who, other than Notre Dame, had a broadcast contract with ESPN

 

[NickRU714]

Notre Dame preseason #5, final ranking #18

I mean they predicted 9-3 and they went 8-4 in the regular season. I'd say that's a win for the FPI.

 

[RutgersDom]

2023 College Football Power Index - ESPN

View the 2023 College Football power index on ESPN. The FPI is the best predictor of a team's performance going forward for the rest of the season.

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Rutgers ranked 78th, right up there with Appalachian State and UAB.

Colorado is the only Power 5 team ranked below Rutgers.
Last year of that! 😊
Rutgers has a 13% chance of 6 wins.

Three 2023 opponents, Ohio State, Michigan, and Penn State are ranked in the top 10.

 

[RutgersDom]

Did they just pick 60 through 90 out of a hat? Because a lot of them don't make sense if you watch a lot of college football.

It’s espn, wtf do they really know about sports? Lol

 

[mdk01]

I mean they predicted 9-3 and they went 8-4 in the regular season. I'd say that's a win for the FPI.

Right. Only 13 off. Good thing they won the Dec. 30 Gator Bowl and climbed back into the Top 20.

 

[colbert17]

They had Sparty as pre season #16. That didn’t go well

 

[RU_DIO]

I don't really care about the poll. We need to add a quality lineman, wide receiver and tight end in the portal to make this team more competitive. Is there anyone available that we can bring in that will be a decent to good starter? We definitely need starter level transfers at these positions to help this team get decent.

 

[colbert17]

I don't really care about the poll. We need to add a quality lineman, wide receiver and tight end in the portal to make this team more competitive. Is there anyone available that we can bring in that will be a decent to good starter? We definitely need starter level transfers at these positions to help this team get decent.

Agreed that we need some upgrades especially at WR. I hope that Konopka has developed as I think that he could be a weapon. TE has been the most under utilized position in our offense

 

[colbert17]

I m always optimistic . You could look at it this way. In their final rankings we were 101 so if now at 78, which is not good, the projection is that we will be close to 25% better this year!!!!
And none of this is really worth the paper its printed on any way. Look at last year. With that 101 ranking we were behind two teams that we beat. One was close to us, BC and rightfully so as we both stunk but we were 16 spots behind Indiana. Does anyone really think Indiana was better than us last year???
Really how valid can it be when at 78 we are only two spots behind East Carolina with Saint Mike Houston (good coach,but not the way some of our posters make him out to be).
But I understand the discussion. To quote my good friend and admirer, @OriginalKnight :
Genius, fans can do this. It’s part of the fun of being a fan.

Spot on

 

[colbert17]

IMHO I think the more interesting column is the one that rates by % the chance of the team getting to six wins. RU is at a dismal 12.8% but it does put us in front of Colorado,Indiana and Vanderbilt among P5 schools.
Is there is a more glaring example of the advantage of playing in the B1G 10 West? NW is 11 spots ahead of us and has nearly triple the percentage of getting to 6 wins and they play a slightly better OOC schedule with Duke, UTEP and Howard

 

[Pils86]

I don't really care about the poll. We need to add a quality lineman, wide receiver and tight end in the portal to make this team more competitive. Is there anyone available that we can bring in that will be a decent to good starter? We definitely need starter level transfers at these positions to help this team get decent.

Honestly I was hoping for a decent qb transfer. Not sure if I can stomach another year of "qb development".

 

[cicero grimes]

Honestly I was hoping for a decent qb transfer. Not sure if I can stomach another year of "qb development".

Hopefully kc can put some development back into the term qb development. Spring game did not show much improvement from last season.

 

[Knight Shift]

This list is bogus. Rutgers beat Boston College and Indiana yet they are ranked below them. Northwestern won only 1 game and they are ranked higher also. Michigan State and RU had very similar result and played a close game on there field yet Michigan State is ranked 46 spots ahead.