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somebody finally decided to rate recruiting classes by offers. I've expressed many times the positives and negatives of such a perspective but its interesting nonetheless. I'll probably play around with it now and then

2014
SMU ranked No. 74
6th among returning AAC teams

2013
SMU ranked No.89
10th among then members of ACC
11th among teams to be in AAC in 2015 (ie including Navy)

http://www.rankbyoffers.com/2014fbteams/

1. Not all offers are reported to recruiting services

2. If they were, you could just offer every 5-star and a bunch of 4-stars and shoot up the list. Doesn't mean you're actually getting anywhere. No point in offering people you don't have a realistic shot at

well since only a handful of 5 stars have signed with AAC or non-BCS teams that shouldn't affect the rankings too much-heck few non-BCS teams sign many 4 stars either. They have a weighting system I'm not sure about based upon a 3 year look-back

Have you adjusted for the additions of Matt Davis and Cameron Nwosu?

East Coast Mustang wrote:2. If they were, you could just offer every 5-star and a bunch of 4-stars and shoot up the list. Doesn't mean you're actually getting anywhere. No point in offering people you don't have a realistic shot at

You completely misunderstood the point of the post and the site he linked to. It does not rank a class based on the number of offers the school gave out to players, since as you noted, that would be ridiculous and would tell you nothing about the quality of the class.

It scores players based on the number of offers they received and then sums the points for all of the players that commit to produce the total points for their class. Then it ranks all the schools' recruiting classes from most points to least points.

So, a player that has offers from 50 schools gets more points than a player that has offers from 3 schools. Surely that is easy to follow. Sum all of the points in a school's recruiting class to arrive at the total points for their class. Compare each school's total points to see who has the most points - that is the class they rank number one, and so on.

^ Got it, yeah, I was way off there. But I still stand by the fact that offers not being reported, or kids reporting offers that aren't actually committable would skew the rankings. But then again no ranking system is really perfect.

South Florida was #22 in 2014, which was two spots ahead of Miami (FL). Wow!

Can someone please tell these folks we are no longer in Conference USA, and when it comes to sports we go by SMU not southern Methodist.

For 2015 they have us at number 40