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Crystal Ball Predictions

- Zion Grady
- Edge / 6-4 / 235
- 0.9651
- Predicted by: Tom Loy
- 6 Med
- Brody Lennon
- TE / 6-4 / 220
- 0.8772
- Predicted by: Josh Edwards
- 6 Med
- Brody Lennon
- TE / 6-4 / 220
- 0.8772
- Predicted by: Bill Kurelic
- 6 Med
- Jake Cook
- IOL / 6-5 / 295
- 0.8766
- Predicted by: Tom Loy
- 6 Med
- Jake Cook
- IOL / 6-5 / 295
- 0.8766
- Predicted by: Josh Edwards
- 6 Med
- Jake Cook
- IOL / 6-5 / 295
- 0.8766
- Predicted by: Bill Kurelic
- 6 Med
- Jake Cook
- IOL / 6-5 / 295
- 0.8766
- Predicted by: Allen Trieu
- 6 Med
- Trajen Odom
- DL / 6-4 / 285
- 0.9054
- Predicted by: Anna Adams
- 6 Med
- Isaiah West
- RB / 5-11 / 208
- 0.8811
- Predicted by: Evan Flood
- 9 High
- Isaiah West
- RB / 5-11 / 208
- 0.8811
- Predicted by: Brian Dohn
- 6 Med
- Isaiah West
- RB / 5-11 / 208
- 0.8811
- Predicted by: Josh Edwards
- 6 Med
- Isaiah West
- RB / 5-11 / 208
- 0.8811
- Predicted by: Tom Loy
- 6 Med
- Isaiah West
- RB / 5-11 / 208
- 0.8811
- Predicted by: Bill Kurelic
- 6 Med
- Jordon Davison
- RB / 6-0 / 216
- 0.9511
- Predicted by: Hank South
- 6 Med
- Vip Scoop
- Jaime Ffrench
- WR / 6-1 / 185
- 0.9895
- Predicted by: Zach Blostein
- 6 Med
- Cody Haddad
- ATH / 6-1 / 175
- 0.8935
- Predicted by: Bill Kurelic
- 6 Med
- Tarvos Alford
- LB / 6-2 / 210
- 0.9745
- Predicted by: Bill Kurelic
- 6 Med
- Tarvos Alford
- LB / 6-2 / 210
- 0.9745
- Predicted by: Brian Dohn
- 6 Med
- Tarvos Alford
- LB / 6-2 / 210
- 0.9745
- Predicted by: Steve Wiltfong
- 6 Med
- Tarvos Alford
- LB / 6-2 / 210
- 0.9745
- Predicted by: Tom Loy
- 6 Med
- Tarvos Alford
- LB / 6-2 / 210
- 0.9745
- Predicted by: Blake Alderman
- 6 Med
- Nate Roberts
- TE / 6-4 / 235
- 0.9411
- Predicted by: Collin Kennedy
- 6 Med
- Vip Scoop
- Elbert Hill
- CB / 5-10 / 170
- 0.9903
- Predicted by: Bill Kurelic
- 6 Med
- Vip Scoop
- Vernell Brown III
- WR / 5-11 / 170
- 0.9780
- Predicted by: Tom Loy
- 6 Med
- Jaime Ffrench
- WR / 6-1 / 185
- 0.9895
- Predicted by: Tom Loy
- 6 Med

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Team News

FB Recruiting

Big social media reaction after high 4-star DE/edge Zion Grady committed to Ohio State

FB Recruiting Bill Kurelic 4 hours ago

College Football

BH: Family influence | Cook-ing again?

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Freshman Mobley earning high marks already from OSU’s veteran guards

College Basketball Steve Helwagen 6 hours ago

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College Football Patrick Murphy 6 hours ago

FB Recruiting

High 4-star DE/edge Zion Grady commits to Ohio State

FB Recruiting Bill Kurelic 6 hours ago

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FB Recruiting Patrick Murphy 21 hours ago

Top Targets

Tavien St. Clair
QB / 6-4 / 225 0.9927

Committed - 6/21/2023
David Sanders Jr.
OT / 6-6 / 290 0.9990
- 100%
Devin Sanchez
CB / 6-2 / 170 0.9977

Committed - 1/6/2024
Dakorien Moore
WR / 5-11 / 182 0.9990
- 100%

2025 Recruiting Rankings

The Formula
where c is a specific team's total number of commits and R_n is the 247Sports Composite Rating of the nth-best commit times 100.
Explanation
In order to create the most comprehensive Team Recruiting Ranking without any notion of bias, 247Sports Team Recruiting Ranking is solely based on the 247Sports Composite Rating.
Each recruit is weighted in the rankings according to a Gaussian distribution formula (a bell curve), where a team's best recruit is worth the most points. You can think of a team's point score as being the sum of ratings of all the team's commits where the best recruit is worth 100% of his rating value, the second best recruit is worth nearly 100% of his rating value, down to the last recruit who is worth a small fraction of his rating value. This formula ensures that all commits contribute at least some value to the team's score without heavily rewarding teams that have several more commitments than others.
Readers familiar with the Gaussian distribution formula will note that we use a varying value for σ based on the standard deviation for the total number of commits between schools for the given sport. This standard deviation creates a bell curve with an inflection point near the average number of players recruited per team.
Below is a graphical representation of how our formula works. You can see that the area under the curve gets smaller both as the rating for a commit decreases and as the number of total commits for a school increases. The y-axis in this graph represents the percentage weight of the score that gets applied to an overall team ranking.