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Texas ranks No. 6 in preseason FEI

Joe Cookby: Joe Cook08/06/25josephcook89
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Kobe Black (Will Gallagher/Inside Texas)

Brian Fremeau has put together an advanced analytical ranking called “FEI” for almost two decades. FEI is short for Fremeau Efficiency Index, which he defines as “opponent-adjusted possession efficiency data representing the scoring advantage per non-garbage possession a team would be expected to have on a neutral field against an average opponent.”

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That’s a lot of words to explain it’s another good resource to look at when trying to figure out a team’s true quality as opposed to relying on polls, power rankings, and even win-loss records. Fremeau released his preseason 2025 FEI ratings, and the Longhorns rank highly across the board.

Overall FEI: No. 6

  1. Ohio State
  2. Georgia
  3. Oregon
  4. Notre Dame
  5. Alabama
  6. Texas
  7. Penn State
  8. Ole Miss
  9. Michigan
  10. Tennessee

Offensive FEI: No. 11

  1. Ohio State
  2. Oregon
  3. Georgia
  4. LSU
  5. Alabama
  6. Miami
  7. Ole Miss
  8. Penn State
  9. USC
  10. Notre Dame
  11. Texas

Defensive FEI: No. 3

  1. Ohio State
  2. Notre Dame
  3. Texas
  4. Georgia
  5. Penn State
  6. Alabama
  7. Michigan
  8. Iowa
  9. Utah
  10. Oklahoma

Special Teams FEI: No. 20

  1. Michigan
  2. Iowa
  3. Florida
  4. Kentucky
  5. Tennessee
  6. Alabama
  7. Baylor
  8. Texas A&M
  9. Florida State
  10. Vanderbilt
  11. South Carolina
  12. Illinois
  13. Rutgers
  14. Ohio State
  15. Wisconsin
  16. Louisville
  17. Stanford
  18. Virginia Tech
  19. Notre Dame
  20. Texas

Strength of Schedule
ELS: No. 9

ELS “is the number of losses a team two standard deviations above average would expect to have against the regular season schedule of opponents.”

Texas’ value for ELS was 1.71, ranking No. 9 in the nation.

  1. Wisconsin
  2. Oklahoma
  3. Rutgers
  4. Purdue
  5. Florida
  6. Mississippi State
  7. Arkansas
  8. Kentucky
  9. Texas
  10. UCLA

GLS: No. 20

GLS is “the number of losses a team one standard deviation above average would expect to have against the schedule.”

ALS: No. 24

ALS is “the number of losses an average team would expect to have against the schedule.”

Win totals

Texas “mean wins,” or the sum of projected individual game win likelihoods, was 9.3. What that is might be confusing, but Fremau put together the percentage chances the Longhorns have for each win total in the regular season.

Here’s a look at the top 15.

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Compare to SP+

TEAMSP+ RankingFEI Ranking
Texas56
Alabama25
Arkansas3842
Auburn2535
Florida1420
Georgia42
Kentucky4337
LSU911
Ole Miss118
Mississippi State7165
Oklahoma1616
Missouri2130
South Carolina1724
Tennessee1310
Texas A&M1513
Vanderbilt5564

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