Ohio State with the most star power. No reason they shouldn't win it all. Unless Ryan Day does Ryan Day stuff. 
How the final 4 stack up talent wise
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Some think we are close
Maybe as close as next year
I’m curious what the numbers look like
With all the N coming portal and new class that might be a tough one to figure. 3 5 star and many the rest 3- and 4-star guys.
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In the portal rankings I noticed our new 5* ranks barely ahead of the walk-on at his position who left?
Next year with the portal additions we will have three 5*'s on our roster. I can say with certainty in the modern recruiting era we have never had that
Raiola
Prichett
Nwaneri
I believe Carter Nelson was a 5^ in a place or two as well
LOL we are a long ways from these teams. We might be close to winning 8 games, we might even be close to a Boise level of athleticism, but we are nowhere close to playing at the level of these 4 teams.
I think it's completely useless to compare star power when we have seen results on the field all year long. Ohio State is the favorite for sure. Though I think Texas is just behind them in terms of raw talent. And then Notre Dame and Penn State are just two hard-nosed and well-disciplined football teams with plenty of talent who can certainly win a championship if OSU or Texas don't bring their A-game.
That’s just one example of why the portal rankings are crap. Meaningless.
Best predictors of portal entry success:
How many gameday plays have they been on the field?
How well did they play when on the field?
What was the level of competition?
Last question is not as important as the first two.
So worthless to not even be mentioned: how many stars from HS. Future NFL talent does tend to come from 4 and 5 stars. But there are still a lot of flat-out college busts that were 4 and 5 stars, and they tend to be in the portal.
If we land a competent ST coach like Ekeler that is worth at least 2 to 3 more wins right there. 7 wins to a 9 or 10 win season.
This would be interesting to see. If you base star rankings on high school ranks we now have at least 3 five stars on the roster.
The transfer portal and recent recruiting classes definitely put our talent level closer to where it needs to be. Hopefully we see the play on the field follow next year.
An even more telling stat than stars is the estimated amount of NFL players on each Team. Between OSU and Texas, there will be 21 future NFL players on the field. Stars may translate to some of that, but development is a big contributor also.
Nothing else can go backwards for that to happen. Turnovers were vastly improved last year - however, our ST’s were garbage and offset gains made.
Must improve in all facets and take giant leaps in O and ST’s. I’m confident in the offensive step given the portal activity, Raiola year 2 and most important … DH.
Anxious to see the ST coach and a competent long snapper.
Our redzone offense was arguably worse than our special teams
Comfortably outside the top 100 nationally in redzone TD%
We desperately need that running game Rhule has been promising since his introductory presser.
Have done very little to address it thus far in the offseason, unfortunately.
Most people agreed this was a very reasonable statement at the time and data to that point supported it as well. Then NIL and portal said "hold me beer..."
Ohio State with the most star power. No reason they shouldn't win it all. Unless Ryan Day does Ryan Day stuff.
But stars don’t matter, recruiting rankings are fake news and I’m not impressed and blah blah blah. Wait a minute, so teams that bring in highly recruited talent year after year are better positioned to succeed?