Notre Dame football moves up in 2024 team recruiting rankings
After Notre Dame landed commitments from running back Kedren Young and offensive lineman Styles Prescod earlier this month, the Irish had the No. 8 class according to the 2024 Industry Ranking Football Team Recruiting Rankings.
And checking in on the rankings Monday afternoon soon — after the Fighting Irish staff added safety Taebron Bennie-Powell and athlete Tae Johnson to the fold — Notre Dame moved up to No. 6 in the country.
Georgia, Ohio State, Florida, Alabama and Michigan are directly ahead of the Irish in the team rankings, respectively.
Among the schools in the top 10, Notre Dame is tied for second with the most commitments. The Irish and Georgia both have 21 verbals, while Michigan has a whopping 23.
The average distance from the prospect’s hometown to Notre Dame is 535.9 miles, which is the fifth-highest number in the top 10 (USC 1151.7, Oregon 1,017.5, Ohio State 699 and Florida 682.3).
The Irish have two commitments ranked inside the top-50 of the On3 Industry Ranking’s national list. Those players are Glen Ellyn (Ill.) Glenbard South’s Cam Williams, the No. 36 recruit and No. 10 wide receiver nationally, and Saline (Mich.) High’s CJ Carr, the No. 45 prospect and No. 6 signal-caller in the land.
Below is a look at the top 10 schools according to the 2024 On3 Industry Team Recruiting Rankings, as of Monday afternoon.
Understanding On3’s team rankings system
If Notre Dame’s recruiting class has 21 commitments, and Alabama only has eight, how do the Crimson Tide rank two spots ahead of the Irish? Let’s get into it.
The On3 Industry Team Recruiting Ranking utilizes all four major recruiting media companies: On3, 247Sports, Rivals and ESPN.
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- 2
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- 3
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Instead of a total points system like at Rivals, the On3 Industry Team Ranking uses a score average of the player rankings, which solves the problem of varying class sizes during the recruiting cycle. It compiles the highest-rated commits for each team up to a total based on a rolling average of current total commitments among Power Five schools.
The current average number of commits used in the rankings score is 12. This means that of Notre Dame’s 21 commitments, only the 12 highest-ranked players are used for the rankings score.
To further explain that point: Notre Dame’s 21 commits have an average recruit rating of 89.97, but that is not the score used in the team ranking. Again, only Notre Dame’s top seven commits are only being used in the On3 Industry Team Ranking, and the Irish’s score with that group is 91.426.
With this model, there are no bonus points for having more commitments than other teams, and only small deductions occur when a team has fewer commitments than the rolling average. Unlike distribution (bell) curves, this model doesn’t disproportionately weight a team’s top three or four highest-rated commits and is a more accurate representation of an entire class.
In Alabama’s case, its score is penalized for having less commitments than the current average number of commits. Their average ranking per recruit is 93.01, while their score is 91.913.
