The proverbial bow has been placed on the college football recruiting Class of 2024 as both the early signing period in December and now the traditional National Signing Day have passed. While the traditional signing day on Wednesday was void of much drama, some surprise coaching changes early in 2024 certainly had an impact on how teams capped their 2024 recruiting efforts.
With the 2024 classes now finalized, there’s no better time than the present to look ahead at what’s to come in the next wave. With that in mind, instead of focusing on the usual suspects finishing at or near the top of the recruiting heap, let’s have a look at some teams that need to step up their recruiting game during the 2025 cycle — beginning with the reigning national champions who are set to enter a new era.
Michigan: The Wolverines were a developmental powerhouse under coach Jim Harbaugh with players consistently outperforming their recruiting rankings as the program climbed to a College Football Playoff National Championship. Well, Harbaugh is gone now, and so are a bevy of those key names that developed into stars. For Michigan’s 2024 class to fall outside the top 10 nationally, taking fourth place in the Big Ten behind the likes of conference newcomer Oregon and Penn State fresh off a national title is concerning. Matters are compounded when you look at what rival Ohio State is doing on the trail and the fact that Michigan is at the center of two separate NCAA investigations. First-year coach Sherrone Moore should be able to get a lot out of the players Michigan has signed, and he did a really good job of keeping the class together amid so much turnover and controversy, but the Wolverines are falling behind a bit in the arms race. That might eventually catch…
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Author : Brandon Huffman
Publish date : 2024-02-07 22:26:09
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