SEC
Where every SEC school's 2020 recruiting class stands heading into July
The calendar is about to flip to July, ending a month of June that saw a number of big-name 2020 recruits commit to SEC schools.
There was a lot of movement in the rankings due to those commitments, so it’s a good time to look at where each team’s current 2020 class stands in the national picture.
As you can see below, the SEC has four of the current top-10 classes nationally, led by Alabama at No. 2 overall (all rankings via the 247Sports composite):
- Alabama — No. 1 SEC, No. 2 nationally
- LSU — No. 2 SEC, No. 3 nationally
- Georgia — No. 3 SEC, No. 5 nationally
- Florida — No. 4 SEC, No. 8 nationally
- Texas A&M — No. 5 SEC, No. 11 nationally
- South Carolina — No. 6 SEC, No. 14 nationally
- Ole Miss — No. 7 SEC, No. 16 nationally
- Mississippi State — No. 8 SEC, No. 18 nationally
- Tennessee — No. 9 SEC, No. 20 nationally
- Auburn — No. 10 SEC, No. 23 nationally
- Kentucky — No. 11 SEC, No. 30 nationally
- Mizzou — No. 12 SEC, No. 39 nationally
- Arkansas — No. 13 SEC, No. 43 nationally
- Vanderbilt — No. 14 SEC, No. 47 nationally
Many other big-name recruits are likely to commit in July, so we’ll see how things play out over the next 31 days.
Wait a minute, according to the Georgia “experts” Dan Mullen couldn’t recruit, was the worst coach in the East, Florida was a dumpster fire and one of the worst programs in the SEC. They must be using alternate facts and fuzzy logic.
What’s scary is that Mullen’s a great coach. Given a much better recruiting base than he had at Starkville, and he could do a lot of damage.
Agree
Mullen isn’t the worst coach in the East, UF isn’t a dumpster fire, and it certainly isn’t one of the worst programs in the SEC. Stil, they won’t beat UGA.
OK I know this is the year of the puppy, at least on paper. But the games are not played in paper and any given Saturday…….
Georgia didn’t play you on paper last year CO…
That was last year, this is 2019
Last year was Mullen’s first year at Florida.
He brought in a new staff, who were coaching players they didn’t recruit, installed new schemes on both offense and defense.
Saying he isn’t a a quality coach, one of the best in the SEC, in either division, is, foolish.
Give him three years and he will be battling for the SEC Championship.
And for LSUABC, Florida is at a school with tradition, facilities, but more importantly a COACH who will bring in the ATHLETES!
Why don’t you try a little bit of critical thinking before posting next time. UGA currently has 14 commitments vs UF’s 18. Even more telling is the avg rating UGA 92.71 vs UF’s 89.75. That’s a pretty wide gap. And of course this is only June. It will be very interesting to do the same comparison at the end of July. But what really counts is when National Signing is over.
Score Check, don’t know if you’re talking to me but I agree with you on the second half of your statement. The first half is nullified by the second one.
I still don’t get how the NCAA has not looked into Clemson’s open cheating. They should never have or should be getting 5 stars the way they do.
Sustained success over the past 4 or 5 years helps with recruiting…
What do you know? From the outside looking in…they are a legit program, great coach, have great facilities, dominate their conference, close to Atlanta and other good recruiting areas, etc… What they are doing looks possible.
clemson has 6 top 30 players on 247 sports for 2020.
they are going to be just like bama has been, consistently loaded every year
their recruiters should get raises…
not sure if this matters much but…
if u look at where their recruits are from, some are close to clemson, but a lot are far away
it shows how their brand is spreading all over the country. recruits see their program and want to go there.
agree with Irenaus
They cannot get 5*s at the rate they do even though they won 2 natty’s in the last 3 years with brand new facilities to help bring in recruits, an easier path to the Natty at this current point in time, and along with having a recent run on their players early in the draft?
IMO it appears to seem real easy for kids to want to go there along with other traditional recruiting powers, the difference is that only Bama has won a championship in the last 4 seasons.
Rankings today, in the sec, short of bama UGA and LSU can be misleading. Those teams will remain near the top. Some others will move up and down substantially as all the classes start filling up.
I don’t see that top 5 in the SEC changing much.
Yeah I’m with you Rider
Four SEC teams currently have an average score over 90, and they are in order, Alabama, UGA, LSU, and Texas A&M. Four others are above 89, and they are in order, Auburn, UF, SC, and Tennessee. Some classes are more full than others, but those are the eight schools that have a realistic shot to finish in the top five of the conference.
If things go as expected, Auburn should make a jump up to about the #12 spot nationally this week.
That wouldn’t be surprising at all. All the class lacks is volume. The quality is there.
Impressive that all 14 schools are in the Top 50. The SEC brand is incredibly strong. Pending 5-star decisions between now and December will probably have an impact on the order, but I’m pretty confident we get 3 schools in the final Top 5 come February.
All this talk about recruiting is worthless.
For example, my beloved Kentucky Wildcats have had a NO. 1 or NO.2 recruiting class in basketball every year since The Great Calipari arrived.
He’s won ONE national championship, lost to the one hundred picked for post season play, Robert Morris, and that one national championship has put him in a category with 36 other coaches who have won it one time.
The only school is the SEC that plays up to its recruiting is in Tuscaloosa.
The rest are wanta bes.
But please keep telling us how the other schools are going to win it all.