With schedules changing seemingly each week across college football, rankings and analytics often follow suit. That was the case this week for Bill Connelly’s SP+ rankings on ESPN.

After the Big Ten announced its return this past week, Connelly restored his rankings to reflect the likes of top-ranked Ohio State and other contenders for the College Football Playoff, like Wisconsin, which is also in the top 10 at No. 7.

“With the Big Ten announcing its late-October return, I’ve gone ahead and added those teams, with their preseason projections, back to the SP+ rankings below,” Connelly wrote. “If or when other conferences announce their return, they’ll be thrown back into the pool as well.”

He added, “It’s also a good time to remind you that SP+ isn’t a résumé rating. If your first reaction is, “How can Ohio State and Alabama be ranked ahead of Clemson when they haven’t played anyone yet??” please keep that in mind.”

Here are the SEC teams:

2. Alabama
4. Georgia
5. Florida
11. Auburn
12. Texas A&M
13. LSU
16. Tennessee
20. Kentucky
28. South Carolina
31. Ole Miss
36. Missouri
39. Mississippi State
55. Arkansas
81. Vanderbilt

What is SP+, then? In a single sentence, it’s a tempo- and opponent-adjusted measure of college football efficiency. I created the system at Football Outsiders in 2008, and as my experience with both college football and its stats has grown, I have made quite a few tweaks to the system. SP+ is intended to be predictive and forward-facing. That is important to remember. It is not a résumé ranking that gives credit for big wins or particularly brave scheduling — no good predictive system is. It is simply a measure of the most sustainable and predictable aspects of football. If you’re lucky or unimpressive in a win, your rating will probably fall. If you’re strong and unlucky in a loss, it will probably rise.