The teams with superior NFL recruits sit out. Ohio is one of those teams that are superior in the talent department. Mizzou likely had full participation by the team in the game. In a year or so, the SEC will lose its edge. It came from their ability to stack recruits, they would promise players they would be on the team, then go out and continue to recruit. In other conferences, like the PAC 12, if they had 20 spots to fill with recruits, they were only allowed to offer 20. Not exactly that, but close. Alabama would have 20 spots, and would recruit 80. Other schools would quit pursuing the athletes they thought that Bama had in hand, and then Nick the Saban would have them walk on. Promising a spot next year, or maybe if someone wasn’t quite as good as they thought. Look at Colorado, they literally released recruits from scholarships. I didn’t know they could legally do that, it wasn’t common knowledge, or is that new?
Top ranked recruiting teams for next year:
1. Georgia
2. Alabama
3. Texas
4. Miami
5. Ohio State
6. Oregon
7. Auburn
8. Oklahoma
9. Florida State
10. Notre Dame
Note: Top three are from the SEC.
College football recruiting rankings 2024: Top classes emerge during early National Signing Day 2023
The rich only get richer.