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Which college football teams do the least with the most in recruiting?
Which college football teams bring in five- and four-star prospects but don't maximize their potential?
www.espn.com
i won't copy and paste the whole thing, but here's some of the more interesting data:
NFL draft selections
ESPN 300 commitments from the 2015 to 2017 classes who were selected in the NFL draft.Auburn 8.6% (2)
Tennessee 11.1% (2)
Florida State 14.8% (4)
Oklahoma 22.2% (4)
Texas 23% (6)
USC 30% (9)
Michigan 33.3% (9)
Georgia 33.3% (11)
LSU 37.1% (13)
Alabama 37.8% (14)
Clemson 40% (10)
Ohio State 44.8% (13)
Miami 47.3% (9)
First-team all-conference selections
Tennessee 0% (0)Oklahoma 5.5% (1)
Florida State 7.4% (2)
Miami 10.5% (2)
Texas 11.5% (3)
Georgia 15.15% (5)
Auburn 17.3% (4)
LSU 20% (7)
USC 23.3% (7)
Alabama 24.3% (9)
Michigan 29.6% (8)
Ohio State 31% (9)
Clemson 44% (11)
All-America selections
Miami 0% (0)Tennessee 0% (0)
Florida State 0% (0)
USC 0% (0)
Michigan 3.7% (1)
Texas 3.8% (1)
Auburn 4.3% (1)
Oklahoma 5.5% (1)
Georgia 6% (2)
Ohio State 6.8% (2)
LSU 11.4% (4)
Clemson 16% (4)
Alabama 18.9% (7)
Five-star recruits
There were 44 prospects rated five stars from 2015 to 2017, but not every team signed a five-star prospect, so that won't ultimately be factored in to who has done the least with the most.Transfers
Here are the percentages of ESPN 300 recruits from 2015 to 2017 who did not finish their career with the teams they signed with:Oklahoma 72.2% (13)
Michigan 62.9% (17)
Texas 61.5% (16)
Florida State 59.2% (16)
USC 53.3% (16)
Auburn 52.1% (12)
Alabama 51.3% (19)
Ohio State 44.8% (13)
LSU 40% (14)
Georgia 39.3% (13)
Tennessee 33.3% (6)
Clemson 28% (7)
Miami 26.3% (5)
Who did the least with the most?
Based on all the numbers, a few schools stand out with low grades.Florida State is in the bottom five statistically for every single category. The Seminoles had the third worst draft percentage, all-conference and all-American players, and were No. 4 in the percentage of transfers it has seen from its ESPN 300 prospects.
Tennessee ranks in the bottom five for each category except for the number of transfers or dismissals, where the Vols had the third-best percentage, indicating players weren't leaving as much as other places.
Oklahoma, surprisingly, is in the bottom five for each category except for All-Americans, where the Sooners had one of their 18 signees become an All-American. Their high transfer total is a big reason they ranked so low in other categories.
Texas is also in the bottom five for each category but one. Similar to Oklahoma, the only category the Longhorns are not in the bottom five is All-Americans, where Texas had one of its 26 eligible players selected as a consensus All-American. Texas was fifth worst for drafted players (six), fifth worst for first-team all-conference players (three) and third worst for number of players to transfer or leave the program (16). Of those 16 players, nine came from the 2016 class, five of which were defensive recruits.