Where do the Oklahoma Sooners land in 2026 SP+ rankings?
Where does OU wind up in ESPN's 2026 SP+ list?
The Oklahoma Sooners made it to the College Football Playoff in 2025, but the 2026 season brings a roster that has changed in many ways , and new challenges for the 132nd OU football team that wants to return to the CFP. With spring practices underway across the country, ESPN's Bill Connelly released his initial SP+ rankings for all 138 teams at the FBS level heading into the 2026 season. Connelly discussed how SP+ is used, as he is the architect of the metric.
"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. " - Bill Connelly, ESPN. In the new rankings, Oklahoma ranked 12th overall on Connelly's list.
That mark is good for sixth-best in the SEC. In fact, the conference has the best overall average rating by conference, and both the best offense and defense rating by conference. OU's SP+ rating is 17.