Where Notre Dame’s 2025 class ranks on National Signing Day eve

Believe it or not — we are just one day away from National Signing Day. Notre Dame and college football programs across the country will sign around a couple dozen prospects, head coaches will praise the class and how the team “met their needs” and there will surely be plenty of flips and drama to occur across the country.

Notre Dame will enter the day with 24 commitments, and Marcus Freeman and Co. expect to sign all of them. It seems likely to be a quiet day in terms of the Irish adding any new players, but that remains to be seen.

As of Tuesday morning, Notre Dame’s class sat in the No. 13 spot in the nation according to the 2025 Industry Ranking Football Team Recruiting Rankings.

It should be noted that the class rankings won’t be finalized until after the all-star games in a few weeks and any leftover movement that occurs during the traditional first Wednesday in February signing day.

This is Freeman’s third full recruiting class as Notre Dame head coach. In 2023, the Irish signed the No. 10 class and Notre Dame had the No. 11 group in America back in the 2024 cycle. Again, the rankings won’t be finalized for a while, so some bumps based on senior film and all-star games are possible to boost Notre Dame’s class ranking, but the expectation should be the Irish ending up this class right around their current spot of No. 13.

For what it’s worth, Freeman was the defensive coordinator for the 2022 cycle and then head coach for the last few weeks before signing day. The Irish signed the No. 6 class that year.

The headliner of Notre Dame’s 2025 class is Wallingford (Conn.) Choate Rosemary Hall’s Will Black, five-star prospect who ranks as the nation’s No. 26 overall recruit and No. 6 offensive tackle according to the On3 Industry Ranking.

On3’s own rankings have Black as the No. 2 prospect and No. 1 offensive tackle in the land.

Notre Dame has one five-star commit, 12 four-star verbals and 11 three-stars pledged in its 2025 class. The Irish currently have a blue-chip ratio of 54 percent and 13 percent of its commits hail from the Hoosier State.

Below is a look at the top 13 schools according to the 2025 Industry Team Recruiting Rankings, as of Tuesday morning.

Understanding On3’s team rankings system

The On3 Industry Team Recruiting Ranking utilizes all four major recruiting media companies: On3, 247Sports, Rivals and ESPN.

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 18. This means that of Notre Dame’s 24 commitments, only the 18 highest-ranked players are used for the rankings score.

To further explain that point: Notre Dame’s 24 commits have an average recruit rating of 89.68, but that is not the score used in the team ranking. Only Notre Dame’s top 17 commits are being used in the Industry Team Ranking, and the Irish’s score with that group is 90.806 — 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.