BleedGopher
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per GridironNow.com:
Before the national championship game, we did a story on how the team with the better recruiting ranking almost always won the title game. The premise held up Monday night, too.
We decided to look at the final Associated Press top 25 poll from this season and compare that with how well each school recruited in the past five recruiting cycles (2011-15); that takes into account true freshmen through fifth-year seniors for each school. 247Sports.com’s composite class rankings were our guide.
Sixty percent (15 of 25) of the final top 25 teams had an average recruiting ranking of 20th or worse over the past five classes. Ten of them — 40 percent — had average rankings of 30th or worse, and seven had average rankings of 40th or worse.
We also put together a list of seven schools that most underachieved last season relative to their recruiting ranking.
Injuries don’t matter, nor did we account for players who turned pro early. We just added up a school’s recruiting ranking in each of the five years, then divided that number by five to come up with an average national ranking over the five-year span. We also figured out where each tea would’ve ranked in the season-ending top 25 relative only to the other teams in the poll with its recruiting ranking.
http://gridironnow.com/how-top-25-teams-fared-in-recruiting-in-past-5-years/
Go Gophers!!
Before the national championship game, we did a story on how the team with the better recruiting ranking almost always won the title game. The premise held up Monday night, too.
We decided to look at the final Associated Press top 25 poll from this season and compare that with how well each school recruited in the past five recruiting cycles (2011-15); that takes into account true freshmen through fifth-year seniors for each school. 247Sports.com’s composite class rankings were our guide.
Sixty percent (15 of 25) of the final top 25 teams had an average recruiting ranking of 20th or worse over the past five classes. Ten of them — 40 percent — had average rankings of 30th or worse, and seven had average rankings of 40th or worse.
We also put together a list of seven schools that most underachieved last season relative to their recruiting ranking.
Injuries don’t matter, nor did we account for players who turned pro early. We just added up a school’s recruiting ranking in each of the five years, then divided that number by five to come up with an average national ranking over the five-year span. We also figured out where each tea would’ve ranked in the season-ending top 25 relative only to the other teams in the poll with its recruiting ranking.
http://gridironnow.com/how-top-25-teams-fared-in-recruiting-in-past-5-years/
Go Gophers!!
