Oregon Ranks Inside the Top Ten of First ESPN FPI Top 25
On Tuesday ESPN released its first football power index (FPI) for the 2025 season. It’s no surprise the list includes Oregon among the top 10 schools as we work through the preseason.
If you need a reminder, here is ESPN’s FPI explained, by ESPN.
As part of our efforts to keep track of these seismic changes, we are relaunching our Football Power Index (FPI) ratings and projections for the 2025 season this week. Just to refresh our memories, the FPI is a predictive rating system that estimates each FBS team’s strength (in points per game relative to the national average) on offense, defense and special teams, making adjustments for starters lost, recruiting talent and other personnel changes. Those numbers are then plugged into the schedule, and everything is simulated 20,000 times to track each team’s odds of winning its conference, making the playoff and advancing through to the national title.
Oregon checks in at No. 6 in the first FPI of the 2025 season. Here is On3’s Nick Kosko’s look at Oregon being in the No. 6 spot. Surprisingly, Oregon is the No. 3 ranked team in the Big Ten Conference, behind Ohio State and Penn State.
The Big Ten champs from a year ago went one and done in the playoffs as the No. 1 seed, losing to Ohio State in the Rose Bowl. Dan Lanning has continually gotten better with the Ducks so naturally, they’ll go further this season.
Dante Moore is expected to take over at quarterback after a year of development and it helps that he has Evan Stewart and Gary Bryant Jr. to throw to. Dillon Thieneman should be solid in the secondary as well. This looks like the right spot in the FPI for Oregon.
- Texas
- Georgia
- Bama
- Ohio State
- Penn State
- Oregon
- Notre Dame
- Texas A&M
- Miami
- Tennessee
- Clemson
- LSU
- Ole Miss
- Auburn
- South Carolina
- Oklahoma
- Michigan
- Florida
- USC
- SMU
- Kansas State
- Arkansas
- Missouri
- ASU
- Nebraska
