NC State #25 in Updated S&P Rankings

You might not be familiar with college football S&P rankings, but after week 5 of the college football season, NC State is ranked 25th.

Here is a short summary from FootballOutsiders on how it is calculated:

The S&P+ Ratings are a college football ratings system derived from the play-by-play and drive data of all 800+ of a season’s FBS college football games (and 140,000+ plays).
The components for S&P+ reflect opponent-adjusted components of four of what Bill Connelly has deemed the Five Factors of college football: efficiency, explosiveness, field position, and finishing drives. (A fifth factor, turnovers, is informed marginally by sack rates, the only quality-based statistic that has a consistent relationship with turnover margins.) (Link)

They jumped 15 spots after their 33-16 victory over Wake. Their Offense ranks 14th, Defense 62nd, and Special Teams 66th