ESPN Football Recruiting – 300 Player Rankings
Belleville High School
Providence Day School
Saraland High School
Alabama
Committed
10/08/2022
Miami Central High School
Savannah Christian Preparatory School
A. H. Parker High School
Duncanville High School
North Shore High School
Zephyrhills High School
Schley High School
Thompson High School
USC
Committed
05/07/2023
Mandarin High School
Vigor High School
Georgia
Committed
01/16/2023
Choctaw County High School
Los Alamitos High School
Manchester High School
Georgia
Committed
01/16/2023
Bishop Gorman High School
Edwardsville High School
Charlton County High School
Georgia
Committed
04/08/2023
Bishop Gorman High School
Baylor School
Fellowship Christian School
JSerra Catholic High School
Lewisville High School
Brentwood Academy
Southside High School
Spain Park High School
West Orange High School
Saint Martins Episcopal School
Tampa Bay Tech Senior High
Oregon
Committed
01/26/2023
Maury High School
Douglass High School
Ohio State
Committed
07/29/2022
Mater Dei High School
Mission Viejo High School
Raines High School
Thomas County Central High School
IMG Academy
Buford High School
Georgia
Committed
12/08/2022
IMG Academy
Mater Dei High School
St. Frances Academy
Mater Dei High School
Summer Creek High School
Monroe High School
Charles Henderson High School
Westgate High School
Saraland High School
Woodward Academy
Northmont Senior High School
Houston County High School
Liberty Christian Academy
Imhotep Institute Charter High School
Bonita High School
Gonzaga College High School
Patricia E. Paetow High School
Elba High School
Horn High School
Ball High School
Mater Dei High School
Quitman High School
The Benjamin School
Spanish Fork High School
McKinney High School
Cass Technical High School
Jordan High School
Wayne County High School
James S. Rickards High School
Pittsburg High School
Buford High School
Evans High School
Alabama
Committed
04/02/2023
John Carroll High School
Parkview High School
Our Lady of Good Counsel High School
Bergen Catholic High
Westlake High School
Lake City High School
Moore Haven Jr-Sr High School
Florida
Committed
04/04/2023
John F. Kennedy High School
A. H. Parker High School
Westside High School
Toms River North High School
Penn State
Committed
01/30/2023
IMG Academy
Colorado
Committed
12/04/2022
Lee County High School
Billy Ryan High School
IMG Academy
Enterprise High School
Salem High School
Weatherford High School
Foothill High School
Bishop Gorman High School
Greene Central High School
Cocoa High School
Bishop Alemany High School
Fort Bend Christian Academy
Homestead Senior High School
Kamiak High School
Holmes County Central High School
Oak Grove High School
Shaker Heights High School
Abraham Lincoln High School
Grimsley High School
Hattiesburg High School
Cardinal Newman High School
Parkview Arts & Science Magnet High
Cleveland Heights High School
The Ensworth School
Washington High School
Alamo Heights High School
Ennis High School
Oklahoma
Committed
05/01/2023
Skyline High School
Pleasant Grove High School
Vashon High School
Snyder High School
Peach County High School
George County High School
Alpharetta High School
Lee’s Summit North High School
St. Joseph’s Prep School
Centennial High School
Kahuku High School
Lovejoy High School
Lake Cormorant High School
Brownsboro High School
Mandarin High School
Villa Angela-St. Joseph High School
Friendship Collegiate Academy
Chaminade-Madonna College Preparatory School
Michigan
Committed
12/16/2022
Catholic Memorial High School
Imhotep Institute Charter High School
Georgia
Committed
07/11/2022
Highland Home High School
Rock Hill High School
Oklahoma
Committed
03/13/2023
American Heritage High School
Lufkin High School
Millwood High School
Mater Dei High School
Jackson Christian School
Port Charlotte High School
Findlay High School
McDonogh School
Thomas Dale High School
Saint Joseph Catholic School
Osceola High School
UCF
Committed
04/14/2023
Quartz Hill High School
South Oak Cliff High
Atascocita High School
Shadow Creek High School
Pahokee High School
Central High School
Los Alamitos High School
Winton Woods High School
Booker T. Washington High School
Rabun Gap Nacoochee School
Red Oak High School
Lakota West High School
San Ramon Valley High School
Whitmer High School
Faith Lutheran High School
St. Joseph’s Prep School
Langston Hughes High School
Alabama
Committed
04/13/2023
Sachse High School
Bethel High School
Buford High School
Berkeley Prep
St. Frances Academy
Geneva High School
Quince Orchard High School
Monsignor Donovan High School
Cy-Fair High School
Lexington Christian Academy
DeSoto High School
Plant Senior High School
Lamar High School
Booker T. Washington High School
North Catholic High School
Boerne High School
Saint Joseph Regional High School
Shadow Creek High School
Chapel Hill High School
Notre Dame De La Baie Academy
Valley Christian High School
Notre Dame Prepatory
Bellville High School
St. John’s College High School
Weiss High School
Orange Lutheran High School
Opelousas High School
Jasper High School
Blue Valley Northwest High School
American Heritage High School
Oak Ridge High School
Miami Central High School
Bishop Verot High School
Vandebilt Catholic School
University Laboratory School
Fenwick High School
DeMatha Catholic High School
Brainerd High School
North Crowley High School
Memorial High School
Arbor View High School
Newton High School
Warner Robins High School
Bishop McDevitt High School
Groves High School
DeSoto High School
West Bloomfield High School
IMG Academy
Maury High School
Imani Christian Academy
Murrieta Valley High School
Calhoun High School
Calvary Baptist Academy
Sierra Canyon High School
Eastern View High School
Siegel High School
Chaminade-Madonna College Preparatory School
Robinson High School
Saraland High School
David Lipscomb High School
Osceola High School
St. Frances Academy
Miami Central High School
Gautier High School
Ben Davis High School
DePaul Catholic High School
Dyersburg High School
IMG Academy
Acadiana High School
Derby Senior High School
Belen Jesuit Prep
The Hun School Of Princeton
Mill Valley High School
Cardinal Ritter College Prep
Archbishop Spalding High School
Red Oak High School
Carl Albert High School
St. Frances Academy
Auburn-Riverside High School
Brandeis High School
Cheltenham High School
The Woodlands High School
Penn State
Committed
04/16/2023
Jefferson High School
The Woodlands High School
Saint Thomas Aquinas High School
Palm Beach Central High School
Saguaro High School
Andy Dekaney High School
David Lipscomb High School
Palatine High School
Simeon Career Academy
Legacy The School of Sport Sciences
Checotah High School
De La Salle High School
Richland High School
Orange Lutheran High School
Columbia High School
Pittsburg High School
Jesuit High School
Rabun Gap Nacoochee School
Clear Lake High School
West Broward High School
Eau Gallie High School
Sierra Canyon High School
Mount Tabor High School
Saint Joseph Regional High School
East Forsyth High School
Somerset Academy
Sultana High School
Ball High School
Jule F. Sumner High School
Milton High School
Seminole High School
Highland Home High School
Matoaca High School
Estacado High School
Martin Luther King High School
Winslow Township High School
JSerra Catholic High School
Millard North High School
Nebraska
Committed
04/20/2023
Trinity Episcopal School
Seminole High School
Wynnewood High School
Vanderbilt
Committed
04/08/2023
Miami Central High School
Warren Central High School
Warren High School
East St. Louis High School
Isidore Newman School
LSU
Committed
12/21/2022
Carroll High School
IMG Academy
Cahokia High School
Greer Senior High School
Slinger High School
Stanford
Committed
Buford High School
Woodward Academy
San Juan Hills High School
Dade Christian High School
King Drew Medical Magnet High School
Aliquippa High School
Germantown High School
Belleville High School
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David Hale, ESPN Staff Writer
The committee has revealed its third set of rankings this season, and aside from BYU tumbling after a loss and Tennessee falling just outside the current playoff field, not much has changed.
But that doesn’t mean there’s not a reason to be outraged. Indeed, it means the committee had a whole week to fix the mistakes it had already made, and it chose not to!
So, who should be most angry this week? Grab a pillow to scream into and a stress ball to clutch. We’ve got a lot to get off our chests.
A fact the committee made clear this week: Beating Mercer by 45 points is better than sitting at home on the couch.
So it is that Alabama, which was ranked behind Miami last week, beat up on a hapless FCS opponent and jumped Miami during the Canes’ open date.
Was there a message in this?
Surely, the message could be that taking the week off isn’t something to be rewarded, but we’re betting that’s not a message the committee wants to send while coaches are arguing about the value of playing in a conference title game.
Is the message that blowing out a team from the Southern Conference is really impressive? All due respect to UMass-Lowell, but we doubt it.
No, the message seems to be that the ACC needs to understand its place in the pecking order, and the line starts behind Alabama. Funny, because we thought the ACC already got that message last year, when Florida State was left out.
Alas, Miami went from No. 4 in the first rankings all the way to No. 8 now, thanks to a one-possession loss to a solid (and underrated) Georgia Tech team. But is that fair?
Miami has four wins over SP+ top-40 teams this season — the same number as Alabama and twice as many as Notre Dame.
Miami has a better loss than either of the two teams directly in front of it: Georgia Tech is No. 55 by SP+. Vanderbilt (one of two losses for Alabama, remember) is No. 61. Northern Illinois, which beat Notre Dame in South Bend, is No. 84.
Miami’s problem, of course, is it lacks a signature win. Notre Dame has Texas A&M. Alabama has Georgia. Miami has … Florida ?
So perhaps the Canes shouldn’t be quite as mad at the committee here as they should be furious with Louisville. The Cardinals were the lynchpin victory for both Miami and SMU (and helped Notre Dame, too), but they bungled their way to a loss to Stanford that will be studied by future generations as a model of ineptitude.
That the committee has woefully undervalued SMU all season, has shoved Miami behind the two-loss Tide, and thinks Clemson is worse than Colorado is the real message here though. The ACC is a one-bid league. The committee is spelling it out loud and clear.
2. Everyone not named Texas in the SEC
Let’s state something at the top: Texas is probably quite good. It is, of course, not the Longhorns’ fault they joined the SEC and still drew a Big 12-caliber schedule. But facts are facts, and in a conference with six eight-win teams and four more already bowl eligible, Texas has played exactly two Power 4 opponents with a winning record this season. Those games resulted in a three-point win over Vanderbilt and a shellacking by Georgia.
But Texas has one loss, and the rest of the SEC competition has two or three. Is that all that should matter?
Will be interesting to see the SEC pecking order, and it’s hard to fault Texas for the schedule it was handed… but 1 team is not like the others here. pic.twitter.com/K6yISrTFN5
— 💫🅰️♈️🆔 (@ADavidHaleJoint) November 19, 2024
Ultimately, winning games is the most important thing, and the committee seems to recognize that with Indiana at No. 5, despite a schedule that might well have included a home game against Bishop Sycamore.
But is it all that matters? If Texas played Georgia’s schedule, would it still have a better record? Their head-to-head meeting would suggest otherwise.
Again, it’s hardly Texas’ fault the SEC rolled out the red carpet in Year 1. But it is up to Texas to impress when the spotlight is on, and since the blowout win against Michigan — a team vastly overrated at the time — the marquee moments have been mostly meh, right up to last week’s mediocrity against Arkansas.
Ultimately, an incredibly good SEC team — Georgia, Ole Miss, Tennessee, Texas A&M, South Carolina or Alabama — is going to end up having played a markedly tougher schedule, proved they can hang with the best of the best, and either go on the road for a arduous opening-round matchup or be left out altogether.
(Seriously, how is Georgia the 10th-best team in the country? There’s no logical argument.)
But Texas? Even with a loss to A&M, it’s hard to see the Horns falling from No. 3 to a place outside the top 11.
How bad was the Kansas loss?
There’s a good case to be made that the Jayhawks are an incredibly undervalued opponent right now. They opened the season ranked in the top 25, they’re just rounding into shape now, and they’ve been incredibly unlucky, going 1-5 in one-possession games. SP+ ranks Kansas as a better loss than Vandy or Georgia Tech. And BYU was still probably the better team in that game, but a special teams miscue cost the Cougars a win.
So what? BYU probably should’ve lost to SMU or Oklahoma State or Utah, and karma is a real jerk.
Still, let’s compare some résumés here.
Team A: 9-1, No. 13 strength of record, best win vs. SP+ No. 12, loss to SP+ No. 84, 3 wins vs. bowl-eligible Power 4 teams
Team B: 9-1, No. 15 strength of record, best win vs. SP+ No. 46, loss to SP+ No. 5, 0 wins vs. bowl-eligible Power 4 teams
Team C: 9-1, No. 9 strength of record, best win vs. SP+ No. 22, loss to SP+ No. 55, 2 wins vs. bowl-eligible Power 4 teams
Team D: 9-1, No. 8 strength of record, best win vs. SP+ No. 13, loss to SP+ No. 42, 3 wins vs. bowl-eligible Power 4 teams
They’re all in roughly the same demographic, sure, but if you’re splitting hairs, it’s hard not to split them in Team D’s direction, right?
Well, of course, Team D is BYU. And, of course, Team A (Notre Dame), B (Boise State) and C (Miami) are all ranked higher.
Way back when the playoff began and the committee was launched, the idea was not to adjust the rankings entirely off the previous week — sending teams that lose tumbling and teams that win inching up as attrition occurs above them — but to view each team’s résumé anew each week. But this committee is acting every bit like the AP voters of old — dropping Miami and Georgia and Tennessee and, particularly, BYU, because of recency bias rather than the sum total of the results. Heck, BYU is now behind SMU — a team with the same record the Cougars beat head to head!
And the real issue here? With BYU, Colorado and Arizona State all now ranked behind Boise State, the odds of the Big 12 missing an opening-round bye are looking pretty strong.
Maybe Coach Prime should use some of his considerable air time to mention that.
Speaking of Coach Prime, here we are again with the clearly superior two-loss Big 12 team ranked five spots behind Colorado.
Same record. Arizona State’s worst loss was by 10 without its starting quarterback. Colorado was blown out by Nebraska. ASU’s best win is against SP+ No. 18; Colorado’s is No. 49.
And, if we’re being honest, Kenny Dillingham’s postgame rants this season have been more entertaining than Deion’s, too.
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ASU coach labels kicking game ‘atrocious,’ confirms tryouts for Monday
ASU coach Kenny Dillingham labels his team’s kicking game “atrocious” and says it will be hosting open tryouts on Monday.
This is a mistake by the committee, plain and simple.
5. The Power 4
We won’t get to say this very often, but the power players are getting screwed.
OK, not really. The SEC and Big Ten will be fine, and even if they’re not, they can cry themselves to sleep on giant piles of money.
But the fact remains that Boise State is primed for a first-round bye, and this week’s top 25 includes four teams from outside the traditional power conferences: Boise State, Army, Tulane and UNLV.
That’s the most during any one week since the final poll of the 2021 season that featured five, but among those were Houston, Cincinnati and BYU — all power conference teams now. Only twice before have four teams not currently in a power conference league (or the Pac-12) been ranked concurrently — in the wild COVID year of 2020, and for a single week in 2019 with Boise State, App State, Memphis and Navy.
Somewhere, Greg Sankey is diabolically petting a cat in an oversized chair and plotting revenge.
Also Angry: Duke, Pitt, Kansas State, Syracuse, James Madison and Washington State (all 7-3 or better, unranked and with more wins vs. bowl-eligible Power 4 teams than Illinois), SMU (9-1, No. 13), Georgia (8-2, No. 10. Seriously, who thinks there are nine better teams?)
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Pete Thamel, ESPN
Villanova has hired Oregon deputy athletic director/COO Eric Roedl as the Wildcats’ new athletic director, the school announced Tuesday.
Roedl replaces Mark Jackson, who departed after nine years for the same role at Northwestern, and gives Villanova a new face to lead its athletic department at a time when its nationally recognized basketball program is struggling for the third consecutive season.
Villanova chose Roedl, a Wildcats alum, in part because of the breadth of experience he brings from his time at Oregon. Roedl played a big role on a macro level at Oregon with the school’s No. 1-ranked football program and perennially successful basketball program.
University president Peter M. Donohue said in statement that he is confident Roedl is someone who can “successfully navigate the changing landscape of college athletics and who possesses the necessary skills to build on our legacy of success-athletically, academically, and administratively — well into the future.”
Roedl had a big part in the search that brought Dan Lanning from Georgia to Eugene, played a key role behind the scenes on Oregon’s move to the Big Ten and has strong Nike relationships from his time at the school, which began in 2012.
There’s also significant local experience for Roedl, who graduated from Villanova in 1997 and was a co-captain of the tennis team. He also worked at Temple for eight years, which included oversight of its basketball program.
“As a Villanova alum and former student-athlete, it is an honor to return to my alma mater,” Roedl said in a statement. “My vision is to collaborate with University leadership, the Villanova community, our coaches, staff, and student-athletes to maintain a championship culture throughout the athletic department that places the highest value on student-athlete experience and success and strives to match and promote the excellence of Villanova in everything we do.”
Roedl’s first big decision is expected to be on the future of basketball coach Kyle Neptune, who continues to struggle in his third season at Villanova. Neptune, who replaced Hall of Fame coach Jay Wright, is 37-36 and 2-3 this season with a loss to Columbia.
Wright won national titles at Villanova in 2016 and 2018, but the program has slipped dramatically since his retirement.
Roedl’s responsibilities at Oregon included a role as the sport administrator for men’s basketball. He also had oversight responsibility for business/financial operations, strategic and financial planning, human resources, contracts, information technology and equipment operations.
“Eric has played a key role over many years in the Oregon Athletics success,” Ducks athletic director Rob Mullens said in a statement. “Eric brings strong leadership, a commitment to the student-athlete experience and a competitive spirit to Villanova. The Wildcats have a bright future with Eric Roedl at the helm.”
Ducks football coach Dan Lanning added, “I’ve been fortunate enough to work closely with Eric and our football team the last three years here at Oregon and can say with confidence that Villanova is getting an all-star.”
Roedl will officially start in his new role in early January.
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Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior Writer
Colorado coach Deion Sanders, who has his team pushing for a Big 12 title and a College Football Playoff appearance, says he doesn’t intend on leaving despite talk about him being a possible candidate for other jobs, including in the NFL.
Sanders has engineered an impressive turnaround at Colorado (8-2), which already has doubled its wins total from 2023. The Pro Football Hall of Famer, who began his college coaching career at Jackson State, has been mentioned as a potential candidate for current or expected NFL coach openings, including the Dallas Cowboys, where he played from 1995 to 1999 and won two Super Bowls.
Former Cowboys teammate Michael Irvin and others have mentioned Sanders for the Dallas job, if the team moves on from Mike McCarthy.
“I’m happy where I am, man,” Sanders said Tuesday. “I’ve got a kickstand down. You know what a kickstand is? … That means I’m resting. I’m good, I’m happy, I’m excited. I’m enthusiastic about where I am. I love it here, truly do.”
Sanders received a five-year, $29.5 million contract when he was hired at Colorado in late 2022, following a 1-11 season for the team. The 16th-ranked Buffaloes, who visit Kansas on Saturday, are two wins away from a spot in the Big 12 title game in their first season back in the conference. They are led by Heisman Trophy contenders Travis Hunter and Shedeur Sanders, son of Deion Sanders. Both are set to depart for the NFL after the season, along with other key contributors.
But Colorado has had success adding transfers, and the Buffaloes are among the top candidates for quarterback Julian Lewis, ESPN’s No. 2 recruiting prospect in the 2025 class who decommitted from USC on Sunday.
Sanders on Tuesday also recognized several freshmen who are contributing to Colorado’s success this season.
“It says a lot about what we plan on being and the stability that we’re going to be here for a while,” Sanders said. “We ain’t going nowhere. We’re about to get comfortable.”
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