wow, reading this thread, you guys scare me with how much stock you put in these overall rankings. you act like it's a scientific certainty or something. yeah, the teams that get the elite players usually are in playoffs, i get that. everyone gets that, you dont need a recruiting website to tell you who the elite recruits are. coaches have been identifying the elite football recruits since WW2, well before al gore invented the internet..
to say that your overall class ranking, something based on the accumulate rankings of players where 50% of them wont even finish their career at the school is just ridiculous... our '16 class was rated very high and over half didnt even make it past year 2 at pitt while many classes in the past ranked much higher, produced many more good football players.. i Can guarantee you if i look back, i'll find multiple pitt recruiting classes ranked in 30's and 40's that ended up much better than the few high ranked classes we landed..
quit being sheep with these rankings.. again, i know the top 4-5 teams gets the elite players and best classes and those teams win but that has nothing to do with these rankings and just the obvious the best programs get the elite players and the rest of us fight for players who no one can tell apart so they have to have them run around cones in their shorts in june to try and get more data from..