How our recruiting grades work

Three parts, each a percentile among the 139 programs we score (the FBS plus the FCS schools with a recruiting page). Strength is 45% results, 35% NFL output and 20% selectivity. Notre Dame leads today at 96: results 99, NFL output 94, selectivity 89.

The top ten today

of 139

#	Program	Strength	Results	NFL output	Selectivity
1	Notre Dame	96	99	94	89
2	Ohio State	93	100	99	65
3	LSU	91	95	98	68
4	Texas	91	94	89	86
5	Georgia	90	98	98	61
6	Oregon	89	93	90	80
7	Utah	88	94	85	83
8	Iowa	88	89	91	83
9	Alabama	87	97	100	41
10	Oklahoma	87	78	95	94

Every program's number with its parts is on the hub and its own page. For a past recruiting cycle the number is recomputed as the program stood then (results from the three seasons before it, draft classes before it), so the backtest below never reads a 2026 season into a 2012 grade.

Nobody here watches film. The grade is the market's: who offered, how strong those programs are, and how rarely they offer. It sits beside the industry composite on every recruit page and never replaces it.

For a recruit's position, the starters since 2022 within an inch of his height and seven percent of his weight, by conference and program, and which of his offers have started that size.

Per program and position group, the bodies on the roster by years left, who is in his last year, portal exits and arrivals over three seasons, this cycle's commits and the NIL money on the roster at the spot. It fills the need section on every program page, the Need card on every College Team HQ and the "who needs him" line on every recruit page.

For a recruit who has not committed, his odds at each program that offered him, from the dated recruit graph only: no expert picks, ratings or articles. The odds add to 100% across his offers (a program that never offered is not in the model), and every number on a page carries the three lines that move it most. Provisional: one dated class trains it today; when the history for classes 2016 to 2026 lands, the newest finished class becomes the holdout.

Three of a recruit's offers, one line each, ranked on need x fit x room x odds: how thin the program is at his spot (the need map), whether it has started players his size since 2022 (the starter tables), how many at his spot are in their last year, and, while he is uncommitted, his STM odds there. Each part is scaled from 0.35 to 1 and the four multiply, so one weak part pulls a program down without zeroing it. Recruiting facts only; the agent kit ranks every program the same way.

For every recruit in the live class, the past recruits whose offer boards looked most like his, and what became of them; for every drafted player since 2015 with a board, the "next" page: the 2027 recruits whose boards look most like his did. History, never a forecast.

The daily risers card ranks the live class by the gain in offer strength over the last seven days, from dated offers only. A recruit under 18 is shown with recruiting facts and the crests of the programs that offered, never a dollar figure, a handle or a face until the page is claimed.

No ratings, rankings, predictions or articles from any recruiting service are inputs to these numbers; the industry composite is shown beside our grade, never inside it. Recruits are mostly minors: name, position, class, school, hometown, size and dated recruiting events only. No national rank below the top 500 is printed.