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The 2024 recruitment cycle is officially over.
The transfer team rankings are final now that it is August 1 and pre-season camps are starting across the country.
This means that the Extended Team Rankings 2024which the combined high school team recruiting rankings And transfer portal recruitment rankingare now closed and the rankings are complete.
Check out some of the notable storylines that emerged.
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WHO IS #1 IN EACH TEAM RANKINGS?
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Alabama claimed the number 1 position in the Extensive rankings under new head coach Kalen DeBoer. The former Washington head coach did a good job of keeping an elite class of high school players together after being hired to fill the vacancy left by Nick SabanOnce DeBoer and his team got going, they put together a transfer class that finished ranked No. 13 in the country.
For the second year in a row, Colorado has won the Transfer team rankings Crown. Deion Sanders and his staff signed more than 40 transfer prospects, just like last year. Eight of their 2024 transfer signings were four-star prospects, which is also more than last year, but none of them were in the top 100 of the player transfer rankings.
In February, Georgia was crowned the high school recruiting champion thanks to a recruiting class that included four five-stars, 19 four-stars and five three-stars. It was Georgia’s fourth No. 1 Recruitment Class since the 2017 cycle.
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SEC LEADS THE WAY IN COMPREHENSIVE RANKING
SEC programs dominated the Comprehensive Team Rankings this year. Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Oklahoma And Chestnut brown make up half of the top 10. The only representation the Big Ten had in the top 10 was State of Ohio And Oregon. Miami And State of Florida are the only ACC programs ranked in the top 10.
We see a similar story in the top 15. Old lady, Texas A&M, Florida And LSU bringing the SEC’s share of the top 15 to nine, while the Big Ten Michigan is ranked 15th, bringing the total to three of the top 15 teams in the Comprehensive Team Rankings.
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HUGE TURNOVER
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Since the Transfer Portal was created, player movement has increased dramatically and it only seems to be accelerating. The number of Transfer Portal classes with at least 25 signees has almost doubled this year.
There were nine programs that signed at least 25 transfers in the 2024 cycle, with Colorado leading the way with more than 40, followed by Memphis, Louisville, State of Arizona,Massachusetts, Marshall, ConnecticutTexas A&M, and State of Michigan.
In 2023, there were only five programs (Colorado, Charlotte, Arizona State, SMU and Louisville) that signed at least 25 transfers.
In the 2023 transfer portal cycle, there were seven Power Four programs that signed at least 20 transfer prospects. That number more than doubles in the 2024 cycle, to 16 programs: six from the SEC, five from the Big 12, three from the Big Ten and two from the ACC.
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INTRA-CONFERENCE TRANSFERS
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Of the 162 transfer prospects who received at least four stars, over 33 transferred to a program in the same conference. This group includes the top 10 transfer prospects Walter Nolen (Texas A&M to Ole Miss), Dante Moore (UCLA to Oregon) and Lance heard (LSU to Tennessee).
There was a lot of transfer activity within the SEC, despite the conference’s rule that players cannot transfer within the conference during the spring transfer window unless they first sit out a season. Cayden Green (Oklahoma to Missouri), Isaiah Bond (Alabama to Texas), Trevor Etienne (Florida to Georgia), Princely Umanmielen (Florida to Ole Miss), Desmond Ricks (Alabama to Texas A&M), Sap sources (south carolina to Ole Miss), LT Overton (Texas A&M to Alabama), Amari Niblack (Alabama to Texas) and Key Lawrence (Oklahoma to Ole Miss) are all top 50 transfer candidates who left one SEC program for another.
