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The SEC is absolutely dominating the 2022 recruiting rankings
Posted on 11/19/21 at 2:40 pm
Posted on 11/19/21 at 2:40 pm
If you include future members Texas and OU (and you should because these kids will spend the relevant chunk of their college careers playing SEC ball), the SEC has 11 of the top 25 recruiting classes nationally:
1. Georgia
2. Alabama
3. Texas A&M
7. Texas
8. Oklahoma
12. LSU
14. Missouri
16. Kentucky
19. Arkansas
21. South Carolina
23. Florida
And all 16 members/future members are in the Top 40:
29. Mississippi State
31. Tennessee
33. Auburn
38. Ole Miss
40. Vanderbilt
-No other conference has more than five programs in the Top 25: Big Ten and the ACC have five; PAC-12 has three.
-Oklahoma, who would have the 5th best class in the SEC, would have the best class in every single other conference except the Big Ten, where it would narrowly be in third.
-The Big Ten and PAC-12 each have seven schools ranked below Vanderbilt, the SEC's lowest rated class. The ACC has eight such schools.
-The SEC has secured 13 five-star recruits. The rest of the country combined has 9.
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1. Georgia
2. Alabama
3. Texas A&M
7. Texas
8. Oklahoma
12. LSU
14. Missouri
16. Kentucky
19. Arkansas
21. South Carolina
23. Florida
And all 16 members/future members are in the Top 40:
29. Mississippi State
31. Tennessee
33. Auburn
38. Ole Miss
40. Vanderbilt
-No other conference has more than five programs in the Top 25: Big Ten and the ACC have five; PAC-12 has three.
-Oklahoma, who would have the 5th best class in the SEC, would have the best class in every single other conference except the Big Ten, where it would narrowly be in third.
-The Big Ten and PAC-12 each have seven schools ranked below Vanderbilt, the SEC's lowest rated class. The ACC has eight such schools.
-The SEC has secured 13 five-star recruits. The rest of the country combined has 9.
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This post was edited on 11/19/21 at 2:45 pm
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Posted on 11/19/21 at 2:50 pm to BreakawayZou83
This is awesome.
Also gives you the sads knowing any middle to low tier SEC teams could literally leave and be challenging for a conference championship if these recruiting numbers continue.
Also gives you the sads knowing any middle to low tier SEC teams could literally leave and be challenging for a conference championship if these recruiting numbers continue.
Posted on 11/19/21 at 2:50 pm to BreakawayZou83
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14. Missouri
Wow. Maybe we should hold off on those divorce papers for now.
Posted on 11/19/21 at 2:50 pm to BreakawayZou83
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33. Auburn
Auburn at 33. You just hate to see it.
Posted on 11/19/21 at 2:51 pm to panhandlebama
Isn’t harsin getting fired for not getting shot?
Posted on 11/19/21 at 2:52 pm to BreakawayZou83
Georgia Tech ahead of Florida is noteworthy. Florida is in for at least 3 more years of mediocrity (or worse), no matter who they hire to rebuild the program.
Posted on 11/19/21 at 2:53 pm to SquaringCircles
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Wow. Maybe we should hold off on those divorce papers for now
None of us want Drink gone. It's mostly a few Arky fans who are trolling us and talking shite about him. He deserves a few years to turn the program around.
Posted on 11/19/21 at 3:02 pm to BreakawayZou83
Thought Ole Miss would be higher.
Posted on 11/19/21 at 3:05 pm to BreakawayZou83
Looks like we all get to count to 32 this year. So, a long way to go.
Posted on 11/19/21 at 3:07 pm to momentoftruth87
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Isn’t harsin getting fired for not getting shot?
If he gets fired for this, I will become a Harsin fan
Posted on 11/19/21 at 3:08 pm to BreakawayZou83
This is why the Playoff conversations and rankings are so annoying, it's not like this is a new development. The talent level in the SEC is simply on a different level. You have a handful of schools that have SEC level talent but no one that has the concentration we do. Whomever finishes 3rd between Bama, UGA, and A&M would have by far the best recruiting class in any other conference by a good margin. Yet everyone is strong.
You look at the Big 12 leftovers and they have a total of 1 player that is a 5 Star and fewer 4 Stars combined than many individual SEC teams. Doesn't mean they can't still be good but they simply aren't playing on the same level.
You look at the Big 12 leftovers and they have a total of 1 player that is a 5 Star and fewer 4 Stars combined than many individual SEC teams. Doesn't mean they can't still be good but they simply aren't playing on the same level.
Posted on 11/19/21 at 3:09 pm to BreakawayZou83
Tennessee is about to land 2 more 4 stars hopefully within the next week, so we will shoot up in the top 25. It's incredible that you could have a top 15 class in the country and be in the bottom half of the conference in recruiting. Insane
Posted on 11/19/21 at 3:10 pm to aggressor
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You look at the Big 12 leftovers and they have a total of 1 player that is a 5 Star and fewer 4 Stars combined than many individual SEC teams. Doesn't mean they can't still be good but they simply aren't playing on the same level.
Jimbo never sniffs that recent raise if he wasn't winning the battle for Texas. Recruiting is everything.
Posted on 11/19/21 at 3:11 pm to BreakawayZou83
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31. Tennessee
Was curious as to how Heupel's recruiting would go in his first full year.
Right now, UT has 14 commits...2 from the state of Tennessee. The top 13 ranked commitments in the state have all committed (or are leaning heavily) to other P5 schools.
1. aTm
2. Bama
3. UK (leaning)
4. UGA
5. UK
6. Stanford
7. Miami
8. Ole Miss
9. OSU
10. Stanford
11. Michigan
12. UK
13. UGA
14. UT
Amazing to have Rodney Garner on this staff, and be doing this poorly in state.
Posted on 11/19/21 at 3:12 pm to Master of Sinanju
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Thought Ole Miss would be higher.
Yeah me too but here we are. Pretty lackluster group outside of a few. Hopefully we gain a lot of ground after the bowl.
Posted on 11/19/21 at 3:13 pm to madmaxvol
We all knew recruiting would be below our standard this year due to the investigation. We will focus on transfer portal this cycle and we should be doing a lot better with high school recruiting starting next season. Thank god for the transfer portal (even though it bent us over last year - we can use it to our advantage now)
Posted on 11/19/21 at 3:17 pm to Master of Sinanju
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Thought Ole Miss would be higher
That's because everyone assumes Lane Kiffin is an elite coach when there's no evidence of this at all.
Posted on 11/19/21 at 3:17 pm to Vols98
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We all knew recruiting would be below our standard this year due to the investigation. We will focus on transfer portal this cycle and we should be doing a lot better with high school recruiting starting next season. Thank god for the transfer portal (even though it bent us over last year - we can use it to our advantage now)
I hope so...I know we have a ton of scholarship spots available:
25 for 2022 class
8 back count for 2021 class (only 17 signed)
7 Transfer Waiver Addition (capped at 7)
In theory...UT could sign 40 players in the '22 class.
Posted on 11/19/21 at 3:21 pm to Vols98
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Tennessee is about to land 2 more 4 stars hopefully within the next week, so we will shoot up in the top 25. It's incredible that you could have a top 15 class in the country and be in the bottom half of the conference in recruiting. Insane
I imagine that a lot of the SEC will actually improve their class ranking before it's all over, pretty nasty. The thing that blows my mind is the the worst classes in the SEC would be middle-upper tier in every other conference. Top to bottom, this league is going to just blow the doors off everyone else for decades to come. This problem will just get worse when OU and Texas are officially here and the Big 12 is no longer competitive over the long term.
Posted on 11/19/21 at 3:22 pm to BreakawayZou83
pretty sure he was talking about Mizzou as a whole, not Drink.
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