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9 SEC teams ranked among top 25 easiest schools to recruit to, according to ESPN
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We all know the SEC has a distinct advantage in recruiting.
Well, ESPN Recruiting Nation’s experts gave us a look at exactly how much by ranking all 65 Power 5 jobs by ease of recruiting, weighing five factors that contribute to the securing of recruits.
The criteria includes:
1. Favorable geography/local recruiting territory.
2. Recruiting/football budget
3. Facilities to attract recruits
4. Next-level considerations
5. Other intangibles including but not limited to winning tradition, game-day experience and academic considerations.
Here’s a look at the top 10, which includes four SEC teams, according to ESPN. Based on the rankings, Mark Richt will be going from the easiest program to recruit to (Georgia) to the 17th-easiest place to recruit to (Miami). Interestingly, Alabama is third-best in the SEC behind Georgia and LSU.
1. Georgia
2. Ohio State
3. Texas
4. USC
5. LSU
6. Alabama
7. Florida
8. Florida State
9. Michigan
10. Oklahoma
When you expand that to the top 25, you’ll find nine SEC teams with the others being Auburn (11th), Texas A&M (12th), Tennessee (16th), Ole Miss (24th) and Arkansas (25th).
Here’s where the other five SEC teams fell: Mississippi State (28th), South Carolina (34th), Missouri (36th), Kentucky (54th), Vanderbilt (58th).
Born and raised in Gainesville, Talal joined SDS in 2015 after spending 2 years in Bristol as an ESPN researcher. Previously, Talal worked at The Gainesville Sun.
