ESPN Releases 2026 College Football SP+ Rankings For All 138 FBS Teams

LSU landed at No. 10 in ESPN's College Football SP+ Rankings, which were released this spring.

The rankings factor in returning production, recent history, recent recruiting, and the effects of coaching changes.

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As a reminder, SP+ is a tempo- and opponent-adjusted measure of college football efficiency. It is a predictive measure of the most sustainable and predictable aspects of football, not a résumé ranking. Along those same lines, these projections aren't intended to be a guess at what the AP Top 25 will look like at the end of the season. These are simply early offseason power rankings based on the information we have been able to gather.

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Here's what the Top 25 looks like:

1. Ohio State
2. Oregon
3. Notre Dame
4. Georgia
5. Indiana
6. Texas
7. Texas Tech
8. Miami
9. Texas A&M
10. LSU
11. Alabama
12. Oklahoma
13. USC
14. Michigan
15. Tennessee
16. Ole Miss
17. Penn St.
18. BYU
19. Florida
20. Missouri
21. Washington
22. Iowa
23. Clemson
24. S. Carolina
25. Utah