Big 12 Recruiting Breakdown

As many have rightly pointed out, recruit class rankings put a LOT of weight on class size – which doesn’t really always make sense. So I generally prefer looking at average recruit rating, but even that has issues. It’s obviously easer to fill out a smaller class and programs shouldn’t be seen as worse recruiters simply for getting another recruit (even if that recruit is below their average). If it was just average that mattered, you could sign one recruit each year and have a great average…but be terrible

Given that, I’ve got a graphic/visualization that shows the recruiting rank for the Top X recruits for each Big 12 program – ranging from the top 1 recruit to the top 22 recruits

Big 12 Recruiting Comparison

Or, if you prefer a zoomed in version (given that recruiting scores pretty much run exclusively between 80 and 100), this is the same chart, just as “amount above 80” for a better scaling to more clearly see differences

Big 12 Recruiting Comparison (Zoomed)

Finally, for those who don’t want to click on a link, here’s a non-graphical summary of where Utah ranks among Big 12 teams when comparing the Top X recruits

1. #8/16
2. #6/16
3. #6/16
4. #6/16
5. #6/16
6. #6/16
7. #5/15
8. #5/15
9. #5/15
10. #5/15
11. #5/15
12. #5/15
13. #5/15
14. #5/14

Note that averages did not include kickers or punters (just because they’re so differently rated)

Additionally, all values used were 247 composite ratings unless those were unavailable. If composite ratings were unavailable, 247 ratings were used and if no ratings were available, the player was provisionally assigned an 80 rating