Notre Dame trending up in 2024 team recruiting rankings after big commitment
In late June, Notre Dame jumped to the No. 6 spot in the the 2024 Industry Ranking Football Team Recruiting Rankings after landing a commitment from four-star athlete Tae Johnson.
The Irish went nearly a month without earning another commitment, while other programs went on hot streaks of adding new pledges. And over the past few weeks, the Irish dropped from No. 6 to No. 12 nationally.
The Irish are back in the top-10 after landing a pledge from Bellflower (Calif.) St. John Bosco’s Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa. The four-star rising senior is the third-highest ranked verbal of the class, trailing only Saline (Mich.) High quarterback CJ Carr (No. 49 overall) and Glen Ellyn (Ill.) Glenbard South receiver Cam Williams (No. 36 overall). Viliamu-Asa ranks as the No. 137 player and No. 11 linebacker per the On3 Industry Ranking.
Notre Dame currently sits at No. 10 in the land. Georgia, Ohio State, Florida, Alabama, Michigan, Clemson, Penn State, USC and Tennessee are the programs that make up the top nine spots, respectively.
Notre Dame’s 2024 class is nearly full, but they’re still working on adding a few big-time players. The most notable — as well as most likely — of that group is West Roxbury (Mass.) Catholic Memorial’s Guerby Lambert, who ranks as the nation’s No. 51 overall player and No. 4 offensive tackle per the On3 Industry Ranking.
The Irish have a commanding lead for Lambert according to the On3 Recruiting Prediction Machine (RPM) at 96.8 percent.
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 22 commitments, and Alabama only has 15, how do the Crimson Tide rank six 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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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 15. This means that of Notre Dame’s 22 commitments, only the 15 highest-ranked players are used for the rankings score.
To further explain that point: Notre Dame’s 22 commits have an average recruit rating of 89.89, 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 91.069.
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.
