2017 Team Recruiting Rankings

2017 Rivals Recruiting Rankings. Here's the Top 10, plus a few interesting schools.

Also, I listed the Y's 2017 schedule and where they rank in the "recruiting wars."

1. Alabama

2. Ohio St.

3. Georgia

4. Michigan

5. Oklahoma

6. Texas A&M

7. LSU

8. Florida St.

9. Tennessee

10. Penn St.

16. Notre Dame

46. Virginia (Bronco's having a good recruiting year)

66. Utah

78. BYU

79. Boise St.



2017 Schedule and Recruiting Ranking

1. Portland St. - Not ranked

2. LSU - #7

3. Utah - #66

4. Wisconsin - #30

5. Utah St. - Not ranked

6. Boise St. - #79

7. Mississippi St. - #24

8. East Carolina - #59

9. San Jose St. - Not ranked

10. Fresno St. - #93

11. UNLV - #99

12. UMass - Not ranked

13.Hawaii - Not ranked



https://n.rivals.com/team_rankings/

wow. What is BYU's average recruiting ranking? 78 seems lowish.

Utah's seems low as well... but I don't follow recruiting that much.

That seems like a below average ranking for BYU, though we haven't had a lot of recruiting news coming through lately with stories of landing 4 star guys.

I thought that is why we hired Kalani, because he was the master recruiter. If this ranking holds up it will be lower than most if not all Bronco's recruiting classes.

247 Sports: Utah 58, BYU 79

https://n.rivals.com/team_rankings/



Scout: Utah 53 tie w/TCU, BYU 76 (right behind Navy @ 75

https://www.scout.com/college/football/recruiting/a.z?s=73&p=9&c=14&yr=2017



ESPN has a team recruit ranking - but - it only goes to 40 unless you are an ESPN Insider subscriber.



However you look at it, BYU is having an "Ok" recruiting year - nothing sensational. Just look at the teams right in front of us. These are teams we would expect to beat.

69. Army (tie)

69. Toledo (tie)

71. South Florida

72. Houston (tie)

72. Navy (tie)

74. Colorado St. (tie)

74. SMU (tie)

74. Southern Miss (tie)

74. Wake Forest (tie)

78. BYU

79. Boise St.



Ah well ...... play ball.

BroncoBot wrote:
Utah's seems low as well... but I don't follow recruiting that much.

Utah is low too, also for legitimate reasons. They will be signing a smaller number of recruits this year. I don't follow their recruiting, so I don't know why. But volume is factored into these rankings.

BroncoBot wrote:
wow. What is BYU's average recruiting ranking? 78 seems lowish.

BYUs recruiting ranking is low, and it is legitimate for now. It's for a couple of reasons"



1) We are seeing a shift in recruiting philosophy. Bronco would wrap up his recruiting early and not wait for higher profile guys to decide at the end of the recruiting season. Kalani is waiting. However, we have a good shot at guys like Ah You, Tuifua, Tofa, Watson, and Hola. We get these guys and our ranking will improve. Right now, most of our commits are 2* on Scout. That's in line with #78.



2) We are getting a lot of transfers. This is still recruiting, to some extent, and builds talent on our roster, but it is not reflected in our recruiting rankings. It feels as if there is a reset going on with guys currently on missions that now want to come to BYU after their missions. This happens every year, but seems to be happening more now with a new coach. I doubt we continue to see these numbers after the next year or two.

Now 65 on Scout.

This year's class adjusted for returned missionaries, new players & transfers while removing all the players believed to be mission first as well...



Mika Tafua 4 star

Kieffer Longson 4 Star

Chaz Ah You 4 Star (mission?)

Langi Tuifua 4 star

Uriah Leiatua 4 star

Matt Bushman 3 star

Tico Fuga 3 star

Keanu Saleapaga 3 star

Kody Wilstead 3 star

Will Sedgewick 3 star

David Lui 3 star

Wayne Kirby 3 star

Ula Tolutau 3 star

Garrett England 3 star

Austin Lee 3 star

Ammon Hanneman 3 star

Tariq Buccannon 3 star

Keenon Ellis 3 star

Mango Finau 3 star

D'angelo Gunter 3 star

Khyriis Tonga 3 star

AJ Lolohea 2 star

Joe Tukuafu 2 star

Earl Mariner 2 star

Joe Critchlow 2 star

Mo Langi 0 star

JC Transfer John Vaka 3 star



Where would this class rank? with 5 4 stars and 16 3 star and 4 2 star plus a JC 3 star transfer would put us in the top 40. Looking at scout I would put it about 37 or on par of TCU.

http://www.scout.com/college/byu/a.z?s=338&p=9&c=14&yr=2017



http://www.cougarboard.com/board/message.html?id=17337289



Note Big12 did not sign a 5 star recruit.