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Ohio State has been fortunate to have a phenomenal string of recruits verbally commit to date and based off the comments on the Recruiting News threads (thanks Spooner) there is an apparent excitement about the 2021 class. There has been whispers of "greatest all time". It is a long way from December but it is a remarkable start. I won't speculate on greatest all time yet but I will give you the data.

I web-scraped the 247 composite to compile all of the top classes since 2001. There are already a few articles out there with this so if you only care about the top 10-15 this isn't new.

https://247sports.com/Article/National-Signing-Day-2020-best-recruiting-classes-ever-143315412/

https://www.bannersociety.com/college-football-recruiting/2017/2/15/14613888/best-classes-ever-rankings

I was a little lazy and only compiled the top 50 classes per year since I didn't want to deal with the "load more" option and frankly, is there really a difference?

TLDR start here:

*At least 15 commits in class to have an avg rank

Ohio State has the 56th best recruiting class ever assembled with the highest avg rank. This means that this class right now would rank approximately 4th to 6th best every year. You'd expect the avg rank to drop as the class increases in size, the second ranked team is the 2017 Buckeyes with 21 commits at 94.59.

So who is in front of the 2021 Buckeyes?

A commitment from any top 300 composite athlete will give Ohio State's class a rating of a minimum 294.37 (Khayri Banton 90.13, #300, Rutgers Commit) vaulting this class up to 43rd all time.

Many of you who have been following recruiting are familiar with the recruits the staff is targeting and who might commit next. You can play with the class calculator here:

https://247sports.com/college/ohio-state/Season/2021-Football/Commits/Preview/

Pound for Pound Ohio State Dominates

*At least 15 commits

If anyone wants access to this data or has requests for slicing and dicing the data please let me know. I can scrape the 2021 class ranking again in the future and update this, though, with the composite table above I am sure everyone will be able to follow along without my assistance.

Enjoy your Friday and enjoy your weekend.

Go Bucks