re: SI ranks college football's most talented rosters

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To account for teams that are considered "developmental" programs, thus they don't recruit a lot of 4-and-5-star prospects, as their players overachieve their incoming star rating they are given additional points. For example, Minnesota's Tanner Morgan was just the No. 1185th-rated prospect coming out of high school, but he clearly played above that last season. Therefore, he's now considered a 4-star in this metric.

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Translated: “We fudge the numbers when we feel like it because what’s the point of a ranking system without obvious bias?”

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Exactly. And he doesn't tell us what it means to overacheive as others have pointed out, just because a WR puts up big numbers for Purdue doesn't mean he's a 4 star talent. It just means they don't have anyone else to throw to.

The fact that he would publish this is laughable.