Where Notre Dame’s 2025 class ranks after Mark Zackery commitment
After Tampa (Fla.) Berkeley Prep defensive back Dallas Golden committed to the Irish April 28, Notre Dame had a “class score” of 92.819 (more on how that’s computed later). Fast forward a month later, and the Irish’s score has improved.
The reason for that is the commitment of Indianapolis Ben Davis’ Mark Zackery, who ranks as the No. 89 overall player and No. 10 cornerback in the land according to the 2025 On3 Industry Ranking. That news boosted the class score to 93.258, which is a full point ahead of Georgia, the program in sixth place with a score of 92.180.
Ohio State, LSU, USC and Clemson currently have the top four classes in the country per the 2025 Industry Ranking Football Team Recruiting Rankings, respectively. Notre Dame sits in the No. 5 slot. Georgia is at six, and rounding out the top 10 is Oregon, Alabama, Auburn and Texas A&M, in that order.
Thirteen of Notre Dame’s 22 commits rank as a four-star recruit On3 Industry Ranking, and the other nine are currently three-star prospects.
We’re less than seven months until signing day for the 2025 class, and the Irish’s class only has about three or four spots left.
The Irish’s highest-ranked commit of the class is Lucedale (Miss.) George County’s Deuce Knight, the No. 50 overall prospect and No. 7 quarterback in America per the 2025 On3 Industry Ranking. The Irish have five top-100 overall recruits committed.
Below is a look at the top 10 schools according to the 2025 Industry Team Recruiting Rankings, as of Monday evening.
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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 in the 2025 class used in the rankings score is 7. This means that of Notre Dame’s 22 commitments, only the seven 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 89.81, but that is not the score used in the team ranking. Only Notre Dame’s top seven commits are being used in the Industry Team Ranking, and the Irish’s score with that group is 93.258 — this is the number used for the class ranking, as seen in the image above.
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.
