Where FSU football ranks in returning production
The Florida State Seminoles may be coming off a 2-10 and a 5-7 season, but their level of returning production is above the national average.
Returning production, per ESPN's Bill Connelly , is the idea that "the more continuity and experience you return from last season, the more likely you are to improve," so if a team brings back a large portion of starters from last year, one would expect them to be better than last year. After a 2-10 and 5-7 season for Florida State fans, they are sure hoping this rings true. They might have a reason for hope if they were looking at this metric.
Nationally, there are 138 FBS teams now, and Florida State ranks out at No. 48 in returning production. With a returning production of 57% overall, this is in the same zip code as Jacksonville State, Liberty, Auburn, and Cincinnati.
The Seminoles have both an offensive and defensive returning production rate of 57%. They are ranked No. 58 nationally in returning offensive production and No.
47 defensively. Nationally, Connelly goes on to explain that returning production is lower than ever: "The extreme rise in transfers is dragging down returning production averages pretty significantly", he says. "Returning production reached an all-time high in 2021 after the NCAA gave everyone involved in the 2020 COVID season an extra year of eligibility, but instead of regressing toward the pre-COVID mean of around 62%, we've slid way past that," he adds.