I use 247 and focus on average rating per recruit. Rutgers and Schiano doing quite well.
Cincinnati, Purdue and Minnesota are tied in rating per recruit.
USC has a high rating per recruit but only ten commitments so far.
I agree. 247 Composite is the best, but 247 still weights the number of commits far too high. Better to use the average commit rank. #10 Clemson (along with others) has a better class than #1 Penn State for 2022 and will pass PSU when Clemson adds more players.
Quantity shouldn’t matter as much as Quality. I do the same for 247 Composite Basketball which combines Rivals, 247 and ESPN (the latter bought Scout). I look at the average commit rank for each team and adjust one way or the other a tiny bit for quantity, because every team needs a bench.
https://247sports.com/Season/2022-Football/CompositeTeamRankings/
Focusing on the average rating per recruit is fine. But we all have to remember that it’s a subjective opinion, which can and likely will change over time, since these are high school kids whose seasons may go up and down, both individually and their teams.
As for total commitments, besides how many kids will choose a particular school, the college only has 85 scholarships (and “games” can be played to get to that number), so each year will depend on the amount of scholarship openings that are available.
So for example, last year Clemson had 19 commitments and Alabama had 27 commitments. I’m not sure of the specifics, but Clemson may have been limited by number of scholarships available and not because recruits didn’t want to play for Clemson.
Edit: Corrected Clemson’s number of 17 to 19. I was focusing on another school for some reason.
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Life is short, eat better pizza.
I wonder how the 16 Notre Dame offensive linemen were/are compensated.
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Several interesting insights given by Alabama’s Nick Saban:
Next article below the Nick Saban interview reveals that Nebraska is under investigation for potential NCAA violations regarding Covid practice restrictions.
The above article discusses realignment’s affect on recruiting football players for Texas Tech.
The article below shows the desperation facing Big 12 athletics due to the upcoming departure of Texas and Oklahoma from the conference.
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Notre Dame schedule & Notre Dame roster links appear at end of article about Notre Dame speed. Also includes links to Notre Dame offensive & defensive 2022 recruits.
si.com/college/notredame/football/notre-dame-football-midweek-musings-irish-speed-will-surprise
Although the Big Ten and Pac 12 are in talks to form an alliance with the ACC, is it still possible that several Pac 12 teams are considering joining the Big Ten ?
Are parallel discussions being held ? One group discussing an alliance among 3 conferences (ACC, Big Ten, & Pac 12), while another group is discussing a merger of Pac 12 teams into the Big Ten.
One commentator has suggested that the commissioners of the ACC, Big Ten, and Pac 12 are holding talks about affiliating, while the Big Ten Presidents and some Pac 12 Presidents are considering a merger if the guarantees from Fox network exceed the current payout of about $55 million per team. Big Ten Presidents are seeking payouts in the area of $70 million per team.
If a merger of Pac 12 teams into the Big Ten is to occur, then this is the best time for such moves since both the Big Ten’s & the Pac 12’s TV deals with Fox are up for renewal. This means that no exit fees would be incurred by departing Pac 12 teams if they move to the Big Ten.
Additionally, the Big Ten needs to keep Ohio State, Michigan, & Penn State happy. The ACC would like to have Penn State join, while the SEC covets Ohio State. Increasing per team payouts from $55 million per team per year to annual payouts in the area of $70 million should be enough to keep Ohio State, Michigan,& Penn State in the Big Ten conference.
If the AAU member Pac 12 teams join the Big Ten, the remaining Pac 12 teams–ASU, Oregon State, & Washington State–could join & save the Big 12 conference which is losing its top 2 teams (Texas & Oklahoma). The Big 12 could also add BYU & Boise State in addition to ASU, Oregon State, & Washington State.
Forming an alliance among the ACC, the Big Ten, and the Pac 12 might encounter a challenge from ESPN which controls the ACC’s TV rights through 2036–another 15 years. This makes a merger of 6 to 9 Pac 12 AAU member schools into the Big Ten a more feasible course of action.
While the Big Ten would consider adding several ACC teams plus Notre Dame, this is unlikely due to the mammoth exit fees that would be due from any departing ACC team. However, ESPN & the SEC may open the door for the ACC AAU member schools to depart to the Big Ten if Clemson & FSU move to the SEC.
In short, a lot is going on behind the scenes with respect to college football realignment. At this time, no one including ADs, Commissioners, and college presidents know what the result will be until revenue studies are completed by Fox.
PAC12 open to possible expansion
Kliavkoff: “There’s no hard deadline related to any of this, but I would say I don’t think it’s good for college athletics given the vibration that’s going on as a result of the Texas and Oklahoma news. The quicker we can dampen that vibration, the better. We will have a decision on whether we intend to expand or not in the next couple of weeks.”
I brought this up when talking about the latest flavor of the month, ISU, not being popular on TV and your rebuttal was their ranking and coach, also saying something history, schmistory.
“I thought adding the NY/NJ market to the B1G was a big plus?”
The actual ratings are not as important as how many subscribers the college brings in for the big ten network, as I think stanleycup also mentioned. I grew up in NJ and upstate NY and that region is not a college sports region, by any stretch of the imagination. As long as the big ten network is carried there, it doesn’t matter if only ten people watch a Rutgers game.
Rutgers games are on the big10 network, unless they play OSU or UM, in which case it could be ABC/ESPN network or Fox.
Just because you have a large city doesn’t mean you’re going to have a lot of interest in college sports. SF is without a doubt a pro sports town and yes the USC numbers are a little surprising. I know Stanford/UCB alums as well, and they don’t really go out of their way to watch, unlike big ten and especially sec fans. They’ll watch a couple rivalry games here and there, but the people that watch college football here are big-10 or sec alums.
Briefly mentions possible antitrust concerns without going into detail.
Great article. Interesting observations.
As a side note: Just checked the odds for Notre Dame to win the CFP this year = 60 to one.
Notre Dame could go 12-0 this year. 60 to one = very attractive odds.
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Without question, Notre Dame is in the driver’s seat with respect to further immediate expansion.
If the Big Ten is interested in Notre Dame–which it should be, I wonder what such an offer would contain. The most limiting factor might be a fear of rejection and subsequent embarrassment.
But, as a semi-independent, the Big Ten could argue that offering Notre Dame is not an attack on potential alliance member ACC, but is a way of locking-up Notre Dame football in a way that benefits all alliance conference members (ACC, Pac 12, & Big Ten) while thwarting any attempts by the SEC to lure in Notre Dame. If Notre Dame joins alliance member Big Ten, then scheduling control may effectively block out Notre Dame versus SEC games & keep Notre Dame viewership in the alliance which should enhance any & all TV / media rights offers.
Additionally, the huge exit fee due the ACC from Notre Dame could be handled via a substantially enhanced TV / media rights contract payout that would immediately benefit all ACC member schools in a more substantial fashion (more money) than would the exit fee split up among the remaining ACC member schools.
P.S. The SEC’s mouthpiece, Paul Finebaum, has already begun public attacks on the concept of an alliance among the Big Ten, Pac 12, & ACC and is trying to stir up fear of a Big Ten attempt or plan to raid the ACC and to target Notre Dame.
I saw their schedule, they could go 12-0 but with Wisconsin, USC, FSU, more likely 11-1 or 10-2. But getting and winning are two different things, they don’t have the talent to beat Alabama or Clemson or OSU, and this year, OU.
FSU may not do well this year. I think Notre Dame will handle FSU.
USC is unpredictable due to the intensity of the rivalry.
Wisconsin is a serious football team & will be a great test for Notre Dame.
Scouting reports indicate that Notre Dame will have elite SEC school quality speed this year.
Agree that Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State, and maybe Georgia are in a separate category of super elite college football teams.
Interesting article which categorizes certain D-1 football programs as behemoths.
The payout is actually $6600 to one for ND to win the national title, so if you feel that strongly about ND, take them.
I made the same mistake initially.
Odds are expressed as +6,000 per 100 units, not per unit. Therefore, the odds are 60 to one.
The favorites to win the 2022 college football championship are in order of most likely to least likely:
- Alabama
- Clemson
- Georgia
- Ohio State
- Oklahoma
The longshots start at #6:
6.Iowa State
7. Texas A&M
8.Univ. of Florida
9. USC
10. LSU
11. UNC
12.Oregon
13.Miami
14.Wisconsin
15. Texas, Notre Dame, & Penn State
16. Oklahoma State, Iowa, Washington, Indiana, Michigan, & Ole Miss.
17. UCLA, Cincinnati, Auburn, ASU, FSU, Kentucky, West Virginia, Utah, & Northwestern.
18. Nebraska
19. Virginia Tech, Tennessee, Stanford, Pittsburgh, BYU, & TCU.
20. Univ. of Colorado, Michigan State, & Boise State.
21. Field = all other teams not listed above.
si.com/college/notredame/football/notre-dame-football-ranking-the-difficulty-2021-schedule
Notre Dame’s most difficult opponent is likely to be a Wisconsin,a Big Ten team.
In another article, some Notre Dame players expressed a preference for joining the Big Ten conference over the ACC since ACC opponents were a bit too easy & it seemed like playing the same team repeatedly. Of course, Clemson is a clear exception.