Team Rankings

Scout just released their team rankings today, and it should come as no surprise that Michigan is ranked first (ARTICLE HERE).  So far we've had an amazing start to our 2013 recruiting class, and there is a definite posibility that we have the number one class in the nation after signing day next year.

The rest of the rankings:

Just wanted to share...many of you, like myself, have wondered where our defense has stacked up in the nation thus far. There are tabs for offense and special teams as well.

Here you go: http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/stats/byteam?cat1=offense&cat2=Total&conference=I-A_all&year=2011&sort=500

Below is a summation of team offense and defensive ranking stats (based on 120 FBS teams):

http://www.ncaa.com/sports/m-footbl/stats/ncaa-m-footbl-stats-index.html

Rushing Offense          3

Passing Offense           38

Total Offense                 2

Scoring Offense             9

Rushing Defense          37

Passing Defense          120

Total Defense               102

Scoring Defense            73

Rivals released their first team rankings for the 2010 class recently.  You can view them at http://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

In 2009 you will remember we finished the year 8th with 22 recruits, 1 5-star and 13 4-star, meaning 4-star or better 64% of the time.  Our avg. star rank for 2009 was 3.59 good enough for 10th overall.  We are currently ranked 9th in 2010 with 16 recruits, 5 of which are rated 4-star and no 5-star.  That gives us a 4-star or better 31% of the time.  If the percentages hold true that means we should plan on adding 2 more 4-stars before the end.  I would predict landing a 5-star recruit this year probably a long shot if you look at the interest lists of the top recruits unless one of our 4-stars move up like Devin or fingers crossed Cullen when he hopefully commits.  When you look at avg. stars per recruit we are 3.31.  That drops us to 19^th overall, still good enough to stay ahead of little brother at 24, but a little bit of a drop when compared to previous years. 

2010 – 3.31 ytd – 19^th

2009 – 3.59 – 10^th

2008 – 3.67 – 7^th

2007 – 3.4 – 10^th

2006 – 3.63 – 6^th

Right now I think the larger concern than stars is that we finish this class with the right recruits.  Somewhere we need to pull out a DT or two, DB’s are always a need but things are trending well, and I’d like to see one more OL with all the defections – Seantrel would do just fine.