Every college football team's updated 4-year recruiting rank, led by you-know-who

4 ACC teams in the top 25.  Not bad.  IMHO, the goal should be 3 in the top 15 (teams that could get a national title) and another 2-3 in top 25.  ACC does OK with recruiting and with the NFL draft.  IMHO, this is directly connected to excellent geography. 

What the ACC has to start doing is turning that advantage into football programs committed to winning.  This takes admins that support football (the rarest of all things in the ACC), facilities (getting better, but far to go), better coaches (huge issue in the ACC, weak coaching), better infrastructure (support staff, trainers, dietary, etc.  The SEC just dominates the ACC here.  I believe the Big 10 does as well). 

Still, solid recruiting year for the ACC.  Clemson really made the huge step for the conference.  Great year for Clemson.



Every college football team's updated 4-year recruiting rank, led by you-know-who

2015 college football recruiting rankings are just about in the books -- pending a couple pieces of blue chip drama -- which means it's time to update the four-year recruiting rankings.

While, yes, everyone agrees that recruiting rankings are not perfect pieces of data, you could do far worse than using rankings as a snapshot of each program's talent level, more or less. Especially at the National Championship level.

Alabama, which finished with its fifth-straight No. 1 class, is of course No. 1 on this list as well. The drastically outrecruited* Ohio State Buckeyes, who overcame a severe lack of big-name talent* to upset Bama and beat the more talented* Oregon to win the title, thereby proving stars don't mean anything*, are second.

* Lies.

Florida State, the 2013 champion and another Playoff team, is third, followed by a bunch of SEC teams and 2015 runner-up USC. Oregon, the lone Playoff team to rank outside the top three, has slipped to third in the Pac-12, but nobody's all that worried about the Ducks' future.

Based on the last four 247Sports Composite classes, here are the 128 teams playing FBS football in 2015, plus UAB, because nobody can tell me not to include UAB.

National rank	Conference rank	School	Four-year	Movement vs. prev. avg.
1	SEC 1	Alabama	1
2	Big Ten 1	Ohio State	4	↓
3	ACC 1	Florida State	5	↑
4	SEC 2	LSU	6.5	↑
5	Pac-12 1	USC	8.5	↑
6	SEC 3	Georgia	9.25	↓
6	SEC 3	Florida	9.25	↓
8	SEC 5	Auburn	9.75	↑
9	SEC 6	Texas A&M	10.5	↑
10	Big 12 1	Texas	11.75	↓
10		Notre Dame	11.75	↓
12	Pac-12 2	UCLA	12.5	↑
13	SEC 7	Tennessee	13.75	↑
14	ACC 2	Clemson	14	↑
15	Big 12 2	Oklahoma	14.25	↓
16	ACC 3	Miami	15.5	↓
17	Big Ten 2	Michigan	17	↓
18	Pac-12 3	Oregon	17.5	↑
19	SEC 8	South Carolina	18.25	↓
		SEC average	18.76
20	SEC 9	Ole Miss	21.75	↓
21	Pac-12 4	Stanford	23.75	↑
22	ACC 4	Virginia Tech	24.5	↓
23	SEC 10	Mississippi State	25.75	↑
23	SEC 10	Arkansas	25.75	↑
25	Pac-12 5	Washington	26.25	↓
26	Big Ten 3	Penn State	29	↑
26	Big 12 3	Baylor	29	↓
28	Big Ten 4	Michigan State	29.25	↑
29	Big Ten 5	Nebraska	29.75	↓
30	Pac-12 6	Arizona State	30.25	↑
31	ACC 5	North Carolina	31.75	↑
32	Big 12 4	Oklahoma State	33	↓
33	ACC 6	Virginia	33.25	↓
34	SEC 12	Missouri	34.5	↑
35	Big 12 5	West Virginia	34.75	↑
		Pac-12 average	34.88
36	Big 12 6	Texas Tech	36	↓
37	SEC 13	Kentucky	36.25	↓
38	Big 12 7	TCU	36.75	↓
39	Pac-12 7	California	37.5	↓
		Big 12 average	38.33
		ACC average	40.16
40	SEC 13	Vanderbilt	40.5	↓
41	Pac-12 8	Arizona	41	↑
		Big Ten average	41.05
42	ACC 7	Louisville	41.5	↑
43	Big Ten 6	Maryland	42	↓
44	Big Ten 7	Wisconsin	42.5	↑
45	ACC 8	NC State	44.25	↑
46	ACC 9	Pittsburgh	45	↓
47	Pac-12 9	Utah	47.25	↑
48	Big Ten 8	Rutgers	48	↓
49	Big Ten 9	Indiana	49.75	=
50	Big Ten 10	Northwestern	51.25	↑
51	AAC 1	USF	52.25	↓
52	Big Ten 11	Iowa	52.75	↓
53	Pac-12 10	Oregon State	54.5	↓
54	ACC 10	Georgia Tech	56.5	↑
54	Pac-12 11	Washington State	56.5	↑
56	Big Ten 12	Illinois	56.75	↑
57	MWC 1	Boise State	59.25	↑
58	ACC 11	Duke	60	↑
58	Big 12 8	Kansas State	60	↑
60	Big Ten 13	Minnesota	60.75	↓
61	Big Ten 14	Purdue	62	↑
61	ACC 12	Syracuse	62	↓
63	ACC 13	Wake Forest	62.25	↑
63	AAC 2	Cincinnati	62.25	↓
65	Pac-12 12	Colorado	63	↓
66	Big 12 9	Iowa State	63.5	↓
67	Big 12 10	Kansas	64.25	↓
68		BYU	65.25	↑
69	ACC 14	Boston College	66.75	↑
70	C-USA 1	Marshall	68	↓
71	AAC 3	Houston	69	↓
72	MWC 2	San Diego State	72	↑
73	AAC 4	SMU	74	↓
74	AAC 5	East Carolina	77	↓
75	AAC 6	UCF	77.25	↑
76	AAC 7	Temple	79	↑
		AAC average	79.02
77	C-USA 2	Southern Miss	80.75	↓
78	MAC 1	Toledo	81	↓
79	AAC 8	Memphis	81.75	↑
80	AAC 9	UConn	83.5	↓
81	C-USA 3	Florida Atlantic	84.5	↑
82	Sun Belt 1	Arkansas State	85.75	↑
83	AAC 10	Tulane	86	↓
84	C-USA 4	Louisiana Tech	87	↑
85	MAC 2	Western Michigan	87.25	↑
86	AAC 11	Tulsa	88.5	↓
87	MWC 3	Fresno State	89	↑
88	MWC 4	San Jose State	91.75	↑
88	Sun Belt 2	Louisiana-Lafayette	91.75	↑
90	C-USA 5	Rice	92.75	↓
91	MAC 3	Bowling Green	94	↓
91	MWC 5	Nevada	94	↓
		MWC average	95.31
93	C-USA 6	Western Kentucky	96.75	↓
		C-USA average	96.94
94	C-USA 7	FIU	97.25	↓
94	C-USA 7	Middle Tennessee	97.25	↓
96	MAC 4	Miami (Ohio)	98	↑
97	MAC 5	Northern Illinois	99.25	↑
97	Sun Belt 3	Texas State	99.25	↑
99	MWC 6	New Mexico	99.5	↓
100		UAB	100.67
101	MAC 6	Central Michigan	101.5	↓
101	MWC 7	Colorado State	101.5	↓
103	MAC 7	Ohio	101.75	↑
104	C-USA 9	North Texas	102	↑
105	MWC 8	Hawaii	103.5	↓
106	Sun Belt 4	South Alabama	103.75	↑
		MAC average	103.79
107	C-USA 10	Old Dominion	104.5	↑
108	MWC 9	Air Force	104.75	↓
109	MAC 8	Ball State	106.5	↓
110	MWC 10	Utah State	106.75	↑
110	Sun Belt 5	Troy	106.75	↓
		Sun Belt average	106.88
112	MWC 11	UNLV	109.75	↓
113	Sun Belt 6	Georgia Southern	110	↑
114	C-USA 11	UTSA	112	↑
114	MWC 12	Wyoming	112	↑
116	Sun Belt 7	Appalachian State	113	↑
117	Sun Belt 8	New Mexico State	113.5	↓
118	MAC 9	Kent State	113.75	↑
119	Sun Belt 9	Louisiana-Monroe	114.25	↑
120	MAC 10	UMass	114.75	↑
121	MAC 11	Buffalo	115.25	↓
122	MAC 12	Eastern Michigan	116.75	↓
123	C-USA 12	Charlotte	117.5	↓
123	Sun Belt 10	Idaho	117.5	↓
125	AAC 12	Navy	117.75	↑
126	Sun Belt 11	Georgia State	119.5	↓
126	MAC 13	Akron	119.5	↓
128	C-USA 13	UTEP	120	↓
129		Army	123.25	↑