Finishing Touches on Recruiting

National Signing Day is February 1st and while many of top prospects have already made a verbal committment there is always the chance we will have a big switch when the intent letters are faxed in.

The rankings below are based on average number of stars-a better indicator of the talent in the class. The usual suspects are there USC, Texas, Florida, Georgia, Notre Dame, Ohio St, Michigan. No real shockers this year though schools like Ole Miss, Pittsburgh, and Arizona are recruiting much better than years past.

For the remaining top prospects all the big dogs are in the hunt, so these rankings could change any day. Also, it will be interesting to see what the rankings would be after all of the test scores are in...

As of January 26, 2006

	School	Commits	Top 100	5 Stars	4 Stars	3 Stars	Off.	Def.	Sp.T.	H.S.	J.C.	Avg. Stars
1	USC	16	11	7	9	0	8	8	0	15	1	4.44
2	Florida	27	8	6	13	7	13	14	0	27	0	3.89
3	Texas	25	6	4	12	7	13	11	1	25	0	3.72
4	Notre Dame	28	6	3	12	12	18	9	1	28	0	3.61
5	Michigan	17	4	4	4	7	7	9	1	17	0	3.59
6	Georgia	26	6	4	9	11	14	12	0	26	0	3.58
7	Penn State	23	6	2	11	8	9	14	0	23	0	3.57
8	Ohio State	20	7	2	10	5	8	12	0	20	0	3.55
9	LSU	21	4	2	7	10	11	10	0	20	1	3.43
10	Auburn	19	1	1	9	6	9	9	1	18	1	3.42
11	Florida State	16	2	3	4	6	5	10	0	13	3	3.38
12	Miami (Fl)	19	1	0	10	6	9	9	1	19	0	3.37
13	Pittsburgh	21	4	2	7	8	8	13	0	20	1	3.33
14	Texas A&M	19	1	1	6	10	11	8	0	16	3	3.32
15	Arizona	24	0	2	6	13	12	12	0	20	4	3.29
16	Oklahoma	25	2	1	9	10	14	11	0	21	4	3.24
17	Mississippi	29	2	2	8	13	17	12	0	21	8	3.21
18	Alabama	20	0	0	6	12	10	10	0	19	1	3.2
19	Oklahoma State	26	1	0	8	15	13	13	0	23	3	3.19
20	UCLA	22	1	0	6	14	9	12	1	21	1	3.18
21	Tennessee	18	1	0	7	7	9	7	2	16	2	3.17
21	Nebraska	23	0	1	7	10	14	9	0	15	8	3.17
23	California	19	1	0	6	10	10	8	1	15	4	3.16
24	Clemson	19	1	1	4	10	8	10	1	18	1	3.11
25	Texas Tech	31	0	1	5	12	12	19	0	30	1	2.81
25	Maryland	21	0	1	2	11	12	9	0	21	0	2.81
27	Virginia Tech	19	0	0	5	5	10	9	0	19	0	2.79
28	Arizona State	24	0	0	4	12	9	14	1	16	8	2.75
29	Oregon State	26	0	0	3	13	10	15	1	19	7	2.73
30	Washington	18	2	0	4	7	9	9	0	11	7	2.72
31	South Carolina	23	0	0	2	12	13	10	0	19	4	2.7
32	Illinois	25	1	0	2	13	12	12	1	23	2	2.68
33	Arkansas	18	1	1	0	9	10	8	0	16	2	2.67
34	Wisconsin	17	0	0	2	7	10	7	0	17	0	2.65
35	North Carolina	28	1	0	3	12	15	13	0	28	0	2.64
36	Louisville	19	0	0	1	10	12	7	0	17	2	2.63
37	Mississippi State	22	0	0	1	11	12	10	0	19	3	2.59
37	Washington State	22	0	0	2	11	16	6	0	15	7	2.59
39	Kentucky	28	1	1	2	9	14	14	0	25	3	2.57
40	Stanford	16	0	0	1	7	9	7	0	16	0	2.56
41	Georgia Tech	15	0	0	1	6	8	7	0	15	0	2.53
42	Michigan State	23	0	1	0	12	8	14	1	19	4	2.52
43	Purdue	23	0	0	1	10	8	13	2	14	9	2.48
44	Boston College	17	0	0	0	8	5	12	0	17	0	2.47
45	Missouri	24	0	0	0	11	10	14	0	18	6	2.46
46	Iowa	18	0	0	3	3	8	9	1	17	1	2.44
47	North Carolina State	15	0	0	0	7	7	6	2	15	0	2.4
48	Kansas	23	0	0	0	9	13	10	0	19	4	2.39
48	Virginia	23	0	0	0	9	14	9	0	23	0	2.39
50	BYU	24	0	0	2	4	11	12	1	21	3	2.29