This is the key point.
You look at:
https://247sports.com/Season/2022-Football/TeamRankings/?Conference=Big-Ten
Mich St #4 - 20 commits (5 - 4*) - average commit rating is 87.05
Purdue #8 - 17 commits (2 - 4*) - average commit rating is 85.35
Minnesota #11 - 13 commits (2 - 4*) - average commit rating is 86.15
Nebraska #14 - 8 commits (0 - 4*) - average commit rating is 86.88
You can't just blindly look at how 247 determines the class ranking, which is some bullshit, massaged "metric" called "Points".
I would bet anything that metric is highly slanted to reward teams that essentially provide the most and most exciting recruiting news, that the site can sell. It's just BS.
And this completely ignores the growing impact that transfers are going to play in each overall class of "new counters".