Michigan State football has been given a near zero percent chance of reaching the College Football Playoff in 2025 by one metric system.
While the betting odds are posted at +1800 for Michigan State to make the 2025 College Football Playoff (which isn’t as high as I personally would have thought), ESPN’s Football Power Index (FPI) is giving the Spartans essentially no chance of reaching the playoff. ESPN’s FPI rating system gives the Spartans a 1% chance of reaching the College Football Playoff this year — which is one of the lowest of all the power four teams.
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Per ESPN’s FPI, these are the only power four teams with a lower percentage to reach the College Football Playoff:
FPI is a predictive rating system used by ESPN to measure and project the strength of college football teams. These ratings take a lot of things into consideration and can help predict how things will play out this fall.
While I’m not expecting a College Football Playoff run for the Spartans in 2025, I would personally give them a much higher chance than 1% of making it happen. I wrote recently how there is a path for the Spartans to be this year’s Indiana and reach the College Football Playoff, and I simply wouldn’t have written that article if I thought it was a 1% chance of happening. So with all due respect to ESPN’s FPI ratings, I’m going to pass on these odds and give the Spartans more of a fighting chance of shocking the college football world in 2025.
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