How every recruiting service ranks the SEC's 2019 recruiting classes after Early Signing Period
Following the first day of the Early Signing Period (players can sign until Friday), Alabama has the unanimous No. 1 recruiting class in the country.
Headlined by 5-star RB Trey Sanders, 5-star OL Evan Neal and 5-star DL Antonio Alfano, Nick Saban already has one of his best classes yet. Both Sanders and Neal announced for Alabama Wednesday, while Alfano had been a long-time commit.
Georgia, who finished No. 1 last year, is ranked No. 2 so far. The Dawgs signed a college football-high five 5-star prospects. Kirby Smart is packing the talent in Athens.
We’ve rounded up the recruiting rankings from each of the major services. With CBS Sports/247Sports acquisition of Scout.com, the site doesn’t produce its own rankings anymore. Please note the 247Sports rankings are not the composite rankings.
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Here are the rankings from the major recruiting services:
| Team | 247Sports | Rivals | ESPN |
| Alabama Crimson Tide | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Arkansas Razorbacks | 20 | 12 | 19 |
| Auburn Tigers | 14 | 14 | 13 |
| Florida Gators | 15 | 17 | 16 |
| Georgia Bulldogs | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Kentucky Wildcats | 31 | 28 | 32 |
| LSU Tigers | 3 | 4 | 6 |
| Mississippi State Bulldogs | 19 | 23 | 14 |
| Missouri Tigers | 35 | 31 | 37 |
| Ole Miss Rebels | 24 | 24 | 20 |
| South Carolina Gamecocks | 21 | 22 | 22 |
| Tennessee Volunteers | 17 | 16 | 15 |
| Texas A&M Aggies | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| Vanderbilt Commodores | 53 | 46 | NR in top 50 |
Expanded play-off system would not mean you have to get in the top 10 recruiting to make a run. At least 8. There is so much money in the ‘recruit’ system/industry these days its all about getting 4 and 5 star recruits. We are getting what the so-called money people want us to have Guess? No tournament, recruiting when your school might not be as attractive to a 5star? But we all tune in or pack the stadiums and people are making huge deposits. Some things never change
It’s hard to be much of a threat when you’re in the 20s. We’re the Ole Miss of the East. Oh well it is what it is.
Don’t lower yourself to that level. No way Muschamp is calling hookers.
I really don’t get it, because hasn’t SCar been recruiting in the 20s like every season for years?
How is it that Kentucky has had their number for 5 years now? We’re constantly in the low 30s
SC is over 20. And they signed a big time guy to play
Amazing how important player development and coaching actually can be. Our offensive gameplan may usually suck, but we grow players into true contributors.
I’m throwing my hat in the push-back on the recruiting spectacle. WE WANT A PLAY-OFF!
They should stop calling it recruiting for the blue chip schools. Acquiring, collecting, maneuvering or the like are better words among this group. Recruiting requires hours of player evaluation. Now, it’s the coaches who are evaluated on the recruiting ranks of these surrogate services, which didn’t exist before 1998 for Rivals (2010 for 247).
REAL recruiting STARTS at about 30 on these services lists and requires footwork that many of these schools discarded 20 years ago.
I’m sorry that the top schools’ success on and off the field allows them to use their stellar reputations as magnetic attraction for the top recruits. And to say that they aren’t heavily pursuing and building relationships with the top recruits shows you really aren’t following it that well.
Lol you still here? What nonsense
Real recruiting doesn’t begin until the area that Missouri shows up in these rankings! Every post you make is riddled with pretentious nonsense like this. The insane conspiracies that you espouse on this site are worse than even several of the trolls. The difference is you legitimately believe the stuff you write.
If the elite coaches of the day like CKS, CLR, CNS just had to coach at practice and on game day=, imagine how much better their teams would be prepared. But, nowadays not only do you have to be a good football coach, you HAVE to be a good recruiter. Or you ain’t gonna make it in todays CFB. And, its hard as hell to find both. That is part of why good coaches make so much money. And, there is a disparity between the best coaches and the mediocre ones. You have to be willing to get on a plane after a victory and go recruit. Some do, some don’t ? Its unfortunately the world that was created for us and them. If the play-off would be expanded and ‘the money’ people gave us a real tournament like every other aspect of life. Schools wouldn’t have to be top 10 every year in recruiting to stay on top. I understand some schools have better history and some are literally in the middle of nowhere. But, Tuscaloosa ALA aint exactly a destination town? They get the best players because of the history and the good coach. Look around their is a reason for the 30 ranking.