[Papa John]

With all but a handful of the top HS players now signed, it looks like Stanford will end up with the #1 ranked recruiting class in the Pac-12, per 247 sports. This ranking has as much to do with coaching changes at Oregon, USC and UW than anything else, but I'll certainly take it!

What's really scary to me is the gap between the haves and almost-haves. Texas A&M has the #1 ranked class nationally, with 7 5-stars, 18 4-stars and 3 3-stars. Stanford, ranked #17, has 7 4-stars and 15 3-stars. So aTm has as many 5-stars as Stanford has 4-stars and more 4- and 5-stars combined than Stanford has total recruits. I think that the best metaphor is that Stanford, #1 in the Pac-12, has been lapped by aTm.

I'm not going to take the time to check year-by-year, but I have to think that the gap between this year's #1 national recruiting class and the #1 Pac-12 recruiting class is the largest that it has ever been since team recruiting rankings became a thing.

[Papa John]

With all but a handful of the top HS players now signed, it looks like Stanford will end up with the #1 ranked recruiting class in the Pac-12, per 247 sports. This ranking has as much to do with coaching changes at Oregon, USC and UW than anything else, but I'll certainly take it!

What's really scary to me is the gap between the haves and almost-haves. Texas A&M has the #1 ranked class nationally, with 7 5-stars, 18 4-stars and 3 3-stars. Stanford, ranked #17, has 7 4-stars and 15 3-stars. So aTm has as many 5-stars as Stanford has 4-stars and more 4- and 5-stars combined than Stanford has total recruits. I think that the best metaphor is that Stanford, #1 in the Pac-12, has been lapped by aTm.

I'm not going to take the time to check year-by-year, but I have to think that the gap between this year's #1 national recruiting class and the #1 Pac-12 recruiting class is the largest that it has ever been since team recruiting rankings became a thing.