Penn State lands in top-10 of SP+ ratings; why the Lions could make College Football Playoff, and more

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Today's Penn State football news headlines feature another preseason top-10 ranking for the Lions and why Penn State has a chance to make its first College Football Playoff.

Today’s Penn State football news headlines feature another preseason top-10 ranking for the Lions and why Penn State has a chance to make its first College Football Playoff.

Penn State found its way into the top 10 of this week’s preseason Associated Press poll at No. 7, which follows a trend of top-10 appearances for a team with big expectations. On Wednesday, the Lions made another top-10 listing, this one fueled more by math than speculation, in ESPN writer Bill Connelly’s SP+ ratings,

. The Lions sit at No. 7 in a metric designed to be predictive of every team’s performance based on key metrics such as returning talent and recruiting success.five potential candidates to make the College Football Playoff for the first time , and he included Penn State along with Iowa, Texas, USC and Utah. On the Lions, Young made the case that four Nittany Lions players will make all the difference in Nick Singleton, Kaytron Allen, Drew Allar and KeAndre Lambert-Smith. Young concluded that Penn State is “a great football team.”

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