How much will the Auburn Tigers improve this season? ESPN shares their early forecast using the Football Power Index.

The Tigers are the 14th-ranked team in ESPN’s 2025 College Football Power Index rankings that were released on Tuesday and have the 18th-best odds to make the College Football Playoff. The rating system gives the Tigers a 21.8% chance make the CFP, a feat the program has yet to achieve in either iteration of the playoffs.

A key moment in the offseason is here as ESPN has revealed its preseason 136-team college football rankings, a big pile of analytics that includes, among other metrics, a preliminary strength of schedule rankings for every team in the country.