With spring ball now behind us and the 2015 season still a few months away, now seems like as good a time as any to take a peek into recruiting for the 2016 recruiting cycle.

Of the top 100 high school recruits in the country (according to the 247Sports industry composite rankings as of May 5) a whopping 42 have already committed to a school for next year. Of course, some of those players will flip their commitments between now and National Signing Day in February, but many of these players have given their word to schools before even beginning their collective senior year in high school.

To extend it a step further into SEC country, 17 of those 42 commitments among the top 100 players are committed to SEC schools, giving the conference more than twice as many commitments in the top 100 than any other conference in the nation at this point in the recruiting process.

Here’s a complete breakdown of how many top-100 talents are committed to each conference, including a comparison to how many of the top-100 players from 2015 committed to each conference:

Conference Top 100 players (2016) Top 100 players (2015)
SEC 17 39
ACC 8 17
Pac 12 7 23
Big Ten 7 8
Independents 2 4
Big 12 1 9

It’s worth noting that only a few schools have claimed nearly all 42 players in question. For example, five of the ACC’s eight commitments are to Florida State, and four of the Big Ten’s seven commitments are to defending national champion Ohio State.

The SEC doesn’t have one team carrying its nation-leading recruiting initiative, but it is just as top heavy as some other conferences with three schools claiming more than half of its 17 current commitments (Georgia, LSU and Ole Miss).

Here’s a breakdown of the highest top-100 commitment totals by school, first within the SEC and then on a national level:

SEC

Team Top 100 players (2016) Top 100 players (2015)
LSU 5 6
Georgia 4 4
Ole Miss 3 2
Alabama 2 10
Auburn 1 2
South Carolina 1 0
Texas A&M 1 3

NATIONAL

Team Top 100 players (2016) Top 100 players (2015)
Florida State 5 8
Ohio State 4 6
Clemson 2 6
Notre Dame 2 4
Penn State 2 0
Stanford 2 1
UCLA 2 6
USC 2 12
Baylor 1 1
California 1 0
Miami (Fla.) 1 1
Nebraska 1 0

And because recruiting at the junior college level is just as vital as recruiting high school talent, we took a look at the 247 junior college composite rankings to determine who has an edge on that side of the recruiting trail.

The answer is once again the SEC. Of the 24 junior college players listed in the 247 rankings, 16 of those players have already committed to an FBS school for 2016, and seven of those commitments are to the SEC.

It appears the Group of Five conferences have achieved more in recruiting juco talents than they have recruiting high schoolers to this point in the process. Of the nine committed junior college prospects to commit outside the SEC, only four committed to a school from another power conference.

Here’s a breakdown of JUCO commitments by conference at this point in the recruiting cycle:

Conference Top 25 JUCO players (2016) Top 25 JUCO players (2015)
SEC 7 13
Big 12 2 3
Conference USA 2 0
ACC 1 3
American 1 0
Independents 1 0
Mountain West 1 0
Pac 12 1 5
Big Ten 0 1

On a school-by-school basis, the three FBS schools from the state of Mississippi have dominated the junior college recruiting game, due in large part to the state’s prominent junior college league, which serves as a fertile recruiting ground for many schools, especially the three from in the state.

Mississippi State and Dan Mullen have done the most work on the JUCO circuit in the wake of last year’s Cinderella season, earning commitments from four junior college talents. Ole Miss has earned a junior college commitment of its own, and Southern Miss of Conference USA has claimed a pair of junior college commitments for 2016.

Here’s a breakdown by school of who’s accomplished the most at the junior college level so far this recruiting cycle:

Team Top 100 players (2016) Top 100 players (2015)
Mississippi State 4 2
Southern Miss 2 0
BYU 1 0
East Carolina 1 0
Florida State 1 1
Fresno State 1 0
Kentucky 1 0
Ole Miss 1 2
Oklahoma 1 1
Oklahoma State 1 1
Utah 1 0
Vanderbilt 1 0