Just picked this up off the wires and it gave me pause. Clemson and Washington aren't really burning up the recruiting universe but Bama and OSU look like they are doint nicely. So in the end how much does this matter in light of the head coaches' ability and the staff? Of course stats are one of those dynamics that one can draw whatever they want from them depending on ones' biases and prejudices. I'm not a pumper for Mac but I'm definitely not calling for his head either. I want to see what his team does with his players. We have a decent QB this year I don't think we lose more than one of those games this year or last. But that's something one can never know. But those rankings below sure give me something to think about in the light of how recruiting has gone so far this year. Anyway, discuss....
ALA (1,1,1,1,1)
CLEM (11,9,17,15,15)
OHIO ST (4,7,3,2,5)
WASH (29,27,37,18,23)
http://www.footballstudyhall.com/20...-matters-why-the-sites-get-the-rankings-right
rankings from multiple services.
The designations are based strictly on the combined scores of the rankings alone, with no attempt to account for injuries, transfers, academic casualties, arrests or any other routine form of attrition:
'Big Six' Conference Teams by Recruiting Class
• FIVE-STAR: Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, LSU, Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Texas.
Note that, since 2003, the eleven teams in the "five-star" group have combined for 21 appearances in the BCS Championship game, compared to one appearance by any of the 64 teams listed below. (The lone exception in that span, Oregon, just barely missed the cut for five-star status.) The only "five-star" teams that never played for a title in the BCS era are Georgia and Michigan; among the rest, only Notre Dame failed to make a repeat trip.
• FOUR-STAR: Arkansas, California, Clemson, Miami, Nebraska, North Carolina, Ole Miss, Oregon, Penn State, South Carolina, Stanford, Tennessee, Texas A&M, UCLA, Virginia Tech, Washington.
• THREE-STAR: Arizona, Arizona State, Baylor, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisville, Maryland, Michigan State, Mississippi State, Missouri, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, TCU, Texas Tech, Vanderbilt, Virginia, West Virginia.
• TWO-STAR: BYU, Cincinnati, Colorado, Georgia Tech, Houston, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, N.C. State, Northwestern, Purdue, South Florida, Utah, Washington State, Wisconsin.
• ONE-STAR: Boise State, Boston College, Central Florida, Connecticut, Duke, Iowa State, Kansas State, Memphis, SMU, Syracuse, Temple, Wake Forest.
Over the same four-year span, those 75 teams played head-to-head 1,488 times. Here are the results of those games, with winning records in black and losing records in red: