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ESPN Updates Its FPI For The Final Time Ahead Of The 2017 Season

ESPN issued a final update to its preseason FPI rankings.

College football season officially starts on Saturday, and ahead of kickoff, ESPN has issued one final update to its preseason FPI rankings.

If you need a reminder, ESPN's FPI is a predictive tool meant to forecast a team's performance during the season. Here's the exact definition, per ESPN:

The Football Power Index (FPI) is a measure of team strength that is meant to be the best predictor of a team's performance going forward for the rest of the season. FPI represents how many points above or below average a team is. Projected results are based on 10,000 simulations of the rest of the season using FPI, results to date, and the remaining schedule. Ratings and projections update daily.

Here are the top 25 teams in ESPN's FPI rankings heading into the season.

  1. Ohio State
  2. Alabama
  3. Florida State
  4. Oklahoma
  5. Auburn
  6. Clemson
  7. Washington
  8. Penn State
  9. Wisconsin
  10. Stanford
  11. USC
  12. LSU
  13. Georgia
  14. Michigan
  15. Louisville
  16. TCU
  17. Florida
  18. Miami
  19. Notre Dame
  20. NC State
  21. UCLA
  22. Tennessee
  23. Washington State
  24. Oregon
  25. Texas

You can check out the rankings for every team in the country here.

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