Gophers 2026 class remains in the top 20 nationally, will it stay there?

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Without a five star you pretty much need at least six 4 stars to sniff the top 25. We have 2 right now, if we can land Voss and Petersohn and maybe one surprise we’d be hovering pretty close. Might be a player or two that gets a reevaluation bump to a four star as well. So top 20, no, but top 30 is still in play with a strong finish. Becomes tough if we lose Voss or Petersohn.
 

btowngopher said:
Without a five star you pretty much need at least six 4 stars to sniff the top 25. We have 2 right now, if we can land Voss and Petersohn and maybe one surprise we’d be hovering pretty close. Might be a player or two that gets a reevaluation bump to a four star as well. So top 20, no, but top 30 is still in play with a strong finish. Becomes tough if we lose Voss or Petersohn.
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Thanks for making this so simple on team rankings.
 


btowngopher said:
Without a five star you pretty much need at least six 4 stars to sniff the top 25. We have 2 right now, if we can land Voss and Petersohn and maybe one surprise we’d be hovering pretty close. Might be a player or two that gets a reevaluation bump to a four star as well. So top 20, no, but top 30 is still in play with a strong finish. Becomes tough if we lose Voss or Petersohn.
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By "reevaluation bump", do you mean an offer from OSU or Georgia?
 





Probably not. But if we get Voss and Petersohn, we'll certainly be much higher than last year. But we take some mid to lower three stars as develpopment projects--wise policy, but pretty much guarantees, math-wise, no top 25 class.
 




Can't have guys rated 84 and expect a top 30 class unless your equall them.oit with some mid to high 90s... im guessing at the end of thebday 37-45 is where we will rank.. regardless of we get Voss and or petersonen
 

Look at Alabama right now, they have 6 commitments, 1 5-star and 4 4-stars. Gopher have never had that. Plus you know Alabama will get more 5 and 4 star recuits before its over.
 






this happens every season. Fleck gets early commits but the Gophers are seldom in the mix for many of the guys who decide close to NSD. Usually drifts back from the top 20 to somewhere in the 30s or 40s
 


I haven't seen Voss or Petersohn play, so I'll reserve comment on them.

The dude I'd really want is Estrada. Don't know how many "stars" he has and I don't really care.

He will be a star, and something the Gophers haven't had in a while, i.e., a back that is both a one-cut-and-go reliable base-your-offense-around-him back that is also truly explosive. We must land him.
 

There is an article about Fleck's classes being in the Top 25 every year in June, seemingly, but we've never achieved that ranking at the end of the process..

Given our type of program, I've always been more interested in how we rank relative to the rest of the B1G. Recruiting is still very subjective, and outside of the top 50 prospects (maybe), an accurate ranking of players doesn't exist. That said, recruiting today is much closer to correct than when Glen Mason brought in a 2* recruit named Greg Eslinger, who turned out to be pretty good. Looking from year to year doesn't work, but the bias and errors are consistent within each year, so you have at least a relative sense of what's happening.

The results under Fleck have averaged 10th in the BIG. We've finished in the top half of the B1G exactly once - in 2018, we had the 7th-ranked class in the B1G.

Results by Year:
2017: 12th
2018: 7th
2019: 10th
2020: 9th
2021: 8th
2022: 12th (aggregate of HS and Portal results - HS rank 14th)
2023: 10th (aggregate of HS and Portal results - HS rank 9th)
2024: 11th (aggregate of HS and Portal results - HS rank 10th)
2025*: 15th (aggregate of HS and Portal results - HS rank 15th)

*First year of 18 teams in the B1G.
Source: 247Sports Recruiting Rankings https://247sports.com/season/2026-football/compositeteamrankings/

Based on this, I'd say that it's unlikely we'll end up in the top 25.
 

caliGopher said:
There is an article about Fleck's classes being in the Top 25 every year in June, seemingly, but we've never achieved that ranking at the end of the process..

Given our type of program, I've always been more interested in how we rank relative to the rest of the B1G. Recruiting is still very subjective, and outside of the top 50 prospects (maybe), an accurate ranking of players doesn't exist. That said, recruiting today is much closer to correct than when Glen Mason brought in a 2* recruit named Greg Eslinger, who turned out to be pretty good. Looking from year to year doesn't work, but the bias and errors are consistent within each year, so you have at least a relative sense of what's happening.

The results under Fleck have averaged 10th in the BIG. We've finished in the top half of the B1G exactly once - in 2018, we had the 7th-ranked class in the B1G.

Results by Year:
2017: 12th
2018: 7th
2019: 10th
2020: 9th
2021: 8th
2022: 12th (aggregate of HS and Portal results - HS rank 14th)
2023: 10th (aggregate of HS and Portal results - HS rank 9th)
2024: 11th (aggregate of HS and Portal results - HS rank 10th)
2025*: 15th (aggregate of HS and Portal results - HS rank 15th)

*First year of 18 teams in the B1G.
Source: 247Sports Recruiting Rankings https://247sports.com/season/2026-football/compositeteamrankings/

Based on this, I'd say that it's unlikely we'll end up in the top 25.
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When you put it this way, the fact that the Gophers have finished in the top of half of the Big Ten standings in 4 of the last 5 regularly scheduled seasons (ex 2023) is more impressive.
 

minnyrules11 said:
This question is not posed every year.
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This question is posed pretty much every year.

The new RB commit Estrada is apparently a 4* so that would definitely help the average for this class and push it toward the 20's.
 

Get the 2 local kids and pop some champagne. The fact that Voss hasn't committed to Bama yet is a good sign, I think.
 
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