2021 college football recruiting class rankings: Alabama leads top 75 teams after national signing day
With the 2021 recruiting cycle coming to an end, it's Alabama at No. 1 in the class rankings, Ohio State at No. 2 and then everyone else.
With the 2021 recruiting cycle coming to an end, it's Alabama at No. 1 in the class rankings, Ohio State at No. 2 and then everyone else.
Ohio State, Georgia and Clemson all have top-five classes entering February's national signing day, but perhaps no one can catch Alabama.
Coastal Carolina, with its season to remember, makes this list multiple times. But what other games cracked the top 25?
How could anyone forget the madness of Ball State-WMU? Where does it fall in the top 50 games of the college football season?
USC, Maryland, Clemson and Nebraska were among the teams to move up in the recruiting class rankings, while Auburn and Florida State fell.
— Davis Mills threw for 428 yards and three touchdowns, including a 14-yard score to Simi Fehoko in the second overtime as Stanford defeated UCLA 48-47 at the Rose Bowl Saturday night in the season finale for both teams.
- Stanford wide receiver Simi Fehoko is skipping his senior season to enter the NFL draft.
While Notre Dame moved up in the 2021 recruiting class rankings, Alabama made a big move by landing one of the top running back prospects.
We rank the top 75 college football recruiting classes in the 2021 cycle during the early signing period.
Clemson, Texas A&M and Ole Miss all rose up the 2021 recruiting class rankings entering national signing day. But can anyone catch Alabama?
Stanford joined Boston College, Pitt and Virginia as the fourth FBS program to decline bowl opportunities this season.
— Davis Mills passed for 292 yards and a touchdown, and ran for a score to lead Stanford to a 27-24 victory over Oregon State on Saturday night.
BYU and Costal Carolina finally found high quality opponents ... each other ... while three of the teams fighting for the fourth playoff spot all hit the road on Saturday. All that plus taco orders, high quality photo editing and more ahead of Week 14.
Clemson, Notre Dame and North Carolina all moved up in the top 10, while Tennessee, Auburn, USC and Florida State were notable fallers.
Stanford will travel to Seattle on Tuesday ahead of Saturday's game at Washington, then will travel to Corvallis, Oregon, where it will prepare for next week's game against Oregon State.
Santa Clara County, home of the 49ers and Levi's Stadium, issued enhanced COVID-19 guidelines for professional, collegiate and youth sports on Saturday afternoon that effectively put a three-week ban on any contact sports taking place in the county.
— Austin Jones ran for a pair of short touchdowns, Davis Mills threw for 205 yards and a TD, and Stanford blocked a would-be tying extra point in the final minute to take back The Axe trophy by beating Bay Area rival California 24-23 in the Big Game...
Week 13 provided a history-making kickoff, an 8-TD performance and plenty of Rivalry Week fireworks.
Pollack and Negandhi kick off the podcast discussing the first batch of College Football Playoff rankings, Notre Dame heading to North Carolina down two offensive linemen, Northwestern surprisingly smashing Wisconsin, David’s Dude of the Week, Coastal Carolina’s offense, Maryland-Indiana, JT Daniels impressing in his Georgia debut and their Week 13 picks. Later, Rece Davis hops on to talk about being in the spotlight with Northwestern’s success, BYU landing at No. 14, a nightmare playoff scenario for Cincinnati, the deck being stacked against the Pac-12 and the start of the college basketball season (48:39).
After LSU and Georgia made big splashes in recruiting, the SEC owns three of the top four 2021 recruiting classes.
The Washington State-Stanford game set for Saturday has been canceled, the Pac-12 announced Friday
As the coronavirus hit several Pac-12 teams last week, games were canceled, rescheduled and delayed. It meant 96 hours of negotiation with local governments, airlines, hotels and lots more. Here's how it happened.
NORTH | CONF | OVR |
---|---|---|
Washington | 3-1 | 3-1 |
Stanford | 4-2 | 4-2 |
Oregon | 3-2 | 4-3 |
Oregon State | 2-5 | 2-5 |
California | 1-3 | 1-3 |
Washington State | 1-3 | 1-3 |
SOUTH | CONF | OVR |
USC | 5-0 | 5-1 |
Colorado | 3-1 | 4-2 |
Utah | 3-2 | 3-2 |
Arizona State | 2-2 | 2-2 |
UCLA | 3-4 | 3-4 |
Arizona | 0-5 | 0-5 |
NAME | POS | STATUS | GRADE |
---|---|---|---|
Aaron Armitage | DE | Signed | 82 |
Ari Patu | QB-DT | Signed | 82 |
Jack Leyrer | OT | Signed | 79 |
Austin Uke | OT | Signed | 79 |
Mitch Leigber | S | Signed | 78 |
YEAR | PLAYER | AWARD |
---|---|---|
2017 | B. Love | Doak Walker Award |
2017 | B. Love | Lombardi Award |
2015 | J. Garnett | Outland Trophy |
2015 | C. McCaffrey | Paul Hornung Award |
2011 | A. Luck | Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award |