Does Signing Day Predict National Champions?

cymonw1980

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Fun little article on signing day results. Funny we made one criteria with transfer QB Kolar, who I would think is only getting snaps if Purdy goes down.

http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...-data-predicts-college-football-next-champion

that was fun... not sure I agree with all the eliminations.. for example, georgia kinda got bumped based on a technicality... the "4. are you locking down the home state?" is kind of garbage category... if Texas, Florida, USC, etc. were as good as they were in the past, they could have easily won a title and none of them are bringing in 1/3 of the state's top 300 recruits... georgia brought in 39 top 300 recruits from the state for the past 4 years... which was more than any of the schools that "passed" this test (clemson for example only brought in 5 of 14 from South Carolina the last 4 yrs). But since georgia has 136 top 300 recruits in that time frame... percentage wise they failed. This is an example of how the parameters back into the past champs (bama and clemson)... i would argue it also highlights the crack in the clemson / bama armor. As some of the more talent rich states get their programs on track they will likely start to push them.... we'll see (obviously, for now clemson, bama, are taking guys from any place they want).