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Alabama leapfrogs Clemson for the top-rated 2020 recruiting class
For a while now, Clemson has held the No. 1 spot in the 247Sports rankings of top 2020 recruiting classes.
However, after landing a commitment from 4-star OL Javion Cohen on Wednesday (with a bit of Auburn drama, it should be noted), the Alabama Crimson Tide are now the top team.
Per the 247Sports rankings, the Tide now have 3 5-star players and a whopping 17 4-star athletes in their 2020 class. Clemson, on the other hand, has 6 5-star players, but only 9 4-star guys.
Clemson is trending positively for a number of remaining 5-star players, though, including the top-2 uncommitted athletes — 5-star ILB Justin Flowe and 5-star SDE Jordan Burch.
Who will have the top class when all is said and done? We’ll find out soon enough.
The only “drama” from that situation is Auburn pulled the offer. He wanted to do a “announcement” between AU & bammer after being committed to AU for 6 months.Auburn said: Bye Felicia!
Good luck with that prima donna
This was like firing someone before they could quit. Auburn saw that he was going to end up at Bama and pulled the offer before he could embarrass them.
Yawn.
Alabama – who always beats Auburn in recruiting – needs to get back to beating Auburn on the field.
Auburn needs to get back to caring about beating other teams than Alabama.
I am FAR MORE frustrated with Auburn at this point. They would rather go 9-4 with a victory over Alabama than 13-1 with a loss to Alabama. This season for Auburn was total garbage, a wasted opportunity because of the combination of good veteran talent on the OL and DL that they don’t get often because recruiting-wise they’re caught in a pinscer between LSU and the Texas schools on one side, Georgia (and Florida, FSU, Tennessee and Clemson) on the other plus Alabama in their home state. But hey, they beat Bama so that makes it a good season, right? Never mind blowing totally winnable games against UF, LSU and UGA.
I am beginning to think that everything that Alabama fans say about Auburn fans is actually right. And the very thought of agreeing with Alabama fans makes me shudder and ill … but beating Alabama at home by 3 points only because the Tide was missing the best player in the country on offense AND critical guys on defense is enough to get Malzahn off the hot seat. Never mind that right after it happened, yet another offensive coordinator gets fed up and jumps ship to work on a staff with a guy from MEMPHIS rebuilding that train wreck in Tallahassee. Him going to Miami would have been understandable because Coral Gables is a great place to live but … oh well.
Enjoy centering your whole sporting existence on occassionally beating Alabama, Auburn fans. At least UGA and Tennessee fans have actual
aspirations.
You have no idea what you’re talking about.
Unaffiliated should change his name to Uninteresting.
“Enjoy centering your whole sporting existence on occassionally beating Alabama, Auburn fans. At least UGA and Tennessee fans have actual
aspirations.”
Seems to me they had better have aspirations of beating Bama. I cant remember the last time either one of them did and it’s cost them the National Championship more then once.
Why should the goal not be beating Bama? As good as they’ve been under Saban, if you beat them, more often than not you’ll be in the title hunt. This year just happened to be the outlier. This was just the 2nd time since 2008 the Iron Bowl winner hasn’t been in the SEC Championship Game. Being a Colorado fan I wouldn’t expect you to understand how rivalries work, especially a rivalry between in-state opponents like Alabama and Auburn, where you live around the other fanbase every single day.
Also, you could not pay me to live within 30 miles of the crime hot-bed of Miami. He left because he will get to call plays at FSU. Auburn ended up upgrading at OC anyway.
You’re so wrong about everything, but you still manage to come off like a condescending know-it-all.
Depending on who actually signs the class Is shaping up great… There is still some big name targets leaning toward the tide and being able to sign 27/28 this year will help with the players jumping early.
Clemson also has several fewer commits. What’s scary to me, though, is that Clemson got this dominant without top 3 recruiting classes. Now that they’re getting even better players, imagine how good they’re going to be.
They’ll be in the playoff every single year because there isnt a team in that awful conference who can compete with them.
Give Mack Brown a couple more years and UNC will be their biggest challenger every year.
and that right there is a sad thought
Very true. Mack Brown can get UNC to be a top 15-20 program, but that’s about their ceiling. Va Tech may eventually get back to being relevant, but Miami and FSU are both dumpster fires and probably will be for a long time.