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LSU was at #7 in the 2023 Team Talent Composite, Miami was at #12, Ole Miss was at #23.

Impossible to make up that much of a difference in one offseason.

Overall 247 Composite Recruiting Rankings for 2024 (transfers and recruits):

6. Miami
9. LSU
17. Ole Miss

On field success is a combination of talent, experience and coaching.

Michigan wasn't incredibly talented last year (#14 in the talent composite, 1 spot ahead of Florida). But their talent was VERY experienced (60 of their players were juniors or seniors). They basically used the covid year exemption to have one of the oldest rosters in CFB history.

They combined experience with a pretty good (if annoying) head coach to win a national title.

I tend to think the guy you were responding to was trying to claim Miami and Ole Miss's rosters were more talented in the combination of talent with experience was higher than LSU. When you recruit more through the portal than through high school recruiting, you can consistently put forward a roster that might not have more talent in the sense of where players could develop to by the end of their career, but might have more talent in terms of what the players can do the following season (because they're older).

I'm still not sure even that is true, but it's closer to being true than just looking at stars.