Should Georgia Bulldog Fans Trust ESPN's FPI Rankings for the 2025 CFB Season?

ESPN recently released it's FPI Rankings for the 2025 college football season. But should Georgia Bulldog fans trust them?

ESPN recently released its annual FPI rankings ahead of the 2025 college football season, which calculates on-field production, recruiting talent, strength of schedule, and numerous other metrics to simulate numerous seasons before rankings team's accordingly.

The Georgia Bulldogs received a favorable ranking in this year's poll as they were listed as the second highest team in the country behind only the Texas Longhorns. In addition, the Dawgs were given the second highest odds in the country to win the SEC, reach the College Football Playoff, and win the national championship.

But can Georgia fans trust the promising ratings provided to them from an algorithm? Or is ESPN's metric system irresponsibly ommitting a handful of factors ahead of the Dawgs 2025 season?

While it has not always been 100% correct, ESPN's FPI Poll has a decent track record of accurately predicting how the Bulldogs season would go. For example, the Bulldogs were given a 79% chance to make the College Football Playoff last season which they accomplished for the third time in four seasons in 2024.

In addition, the Dawgs were given the best odds to win the SEC Championship (32.8%), with the Texas Longhorns receiving the second-highest odds (24.2%). Both teams would eventually meet for the conference title in Atlanta where the Bulldogs would win an overtime thriller, fufilling ESPN's projection.

The metric system has had other successes as well. In the 2022 and 2023 ratings, the Dawgs were given extremely high odds to finish their regular seasons undefeated. The Bulldogs would accomplish this in 2022 and 2023, winning all but one of their games in the two-season span.

The FPI has had its mishaps though, last year's ratings provided Georgia with the best odds in the country to both reach and win the national championship. The Bulldogs would obviously fall short of this projection, as they were eliminated in the first round of the playoff by the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

Projecting a full season of college football is a nearly impossible task where even the most detailed of simulations can be incorrect. However, ESPN's FPI rankings have a decent enough track record for Georgia fans to trust that the 2025 FPI ratings will be fairly accurate for prediciting the Dawgs 2025 college football season.