ANALYSIS Class of 2024 Point Total Charts - Created 7/23/2024

LawDawg86 · Jul 23, 2024

I have no inside information. I do this annually to provide a graphic representation of the fantastic work of the staff, most specifically @Trent Smallwood's 2025 Class Prediction and @JedMay's information. I ignore anything posted by @Radi Nabulsi unless he is going on vacation.

Recruiting - ***2025 Class Prediction (UPDATED 08/02/24)

QUARTERBACK: (1 COMMITS) DONE 1) Ryan Montgomery: (5.8) Rivals250 4* QB COMMIT Other top targets include: RUNNING BACK: (1 COMMIT) 2) Ousmane Kromah: (5.9) Rivals100 4* RB 3) Bo Walker: (5.8) 4* RB COMMIT Other top targets include: Anthony Rogers: (5.9) Rivals100 4* RB Shane Marshall: (5.6)...

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I also base it on things I read here, and elsewhere. But, for the most part, you can see this as a visual representation of Trent and Jed's work.

I will update it before the season, then possibly mid-season, then before ESD, then before NSD, and then one last time after NSD as a final review.

I am President of the Vent Disney Club, so I am optimistic about all of my listings. My friend @borodawg will most certainly come in to help me out and provide a more critical view.

Links to previous classes are found below at the bottom of the post.

For the Newbies, this is all Rivals, not Composite or Consensus; with Rivals, only the top 20 recruits are counted.

Some things to help you compare where we are:

Top 23 classes since CKS got here:

2025 class - this is the lowest score for my original run at points since I started doing this 4 years ago. I think that is a result of 3 things:

1. We have commitments from a lot of players who are ranked a lot lower than on other services. We should get bumps.

2. I think in general the talent is getting spread around more. While tOSU and Alabama are doing very well, neither looks as if they are going to be anywhere near close to the very high numbers pre-NIL. This makes a lot of sense, and the trend over the last 3 years has been lower class rankings for the 1-3 slot.

3. This feels more like an evals/development class to me. We have way more 5.8 and 5.7 ranked recruits than we have in the past. That's fine ... Kirby gets the benefit of the doubt on evals and development.

Bama (2021) - 3548
Bama (2017) - 3477
ATM (2022) - 3470
UGA (2018) - 3461
Bama (2023) - 3367
Bama (2022) - 3297
tOSU (2021) - 3262
UGA (2023) - 3235
UGA (2022) - 3235
tOSU (2018) - 3192
UGA (2024) - 3156
tOSU (2017) - 3078
UGA (2019) - 3063
UGA (2020) - 3055
Bama (2019) - 3047
Clemson (2020) - 3034
Bama (2020) - 3007
Bama (2024) - 3000
Current 2025 Projected Class - 2948
Texas (2023) - 2939
tOSU ( 2022) - 2862
Texas (2024) - 2835
UGA (2017) - 2825
UGA (2021) - 2704

Current Class (2484 - would have been 10th in the final 2024 rankings, much more to come)

Top 100 - 4 (this was 8 this time last year)
Top 300 - 12 (this was 14 this time last year)

Projected Class (2948 - 3rd in 2024, 19th all time)

Top 100 - 8 (last year this was 14 at this time)
Top 300 - 19 (last year this was 22 at this time)

Horrible Class

In the past I've done a horrible class for the Chicken Littles who think we suck at recruiting ... I am not going to feed into that negativity anymore. If you don't think Kirby can recruit at this point, that's a "you" problem.

Remaining prospects

Certainly, others will get added and subtracted as they become known or commit to others:

Rivals Team Rankings