Notre Dame’s 2023 class is No. 1 per 2023 On3 Consensus Team Recruiting Ranking
Notre Dame has 13 commitments so far in the 2023 class, five of whom committed to the Irish since April 19. And with its recent run of verbals for head coach Marcus Freeman, the Irish passed USC for the No. 1 spot according to the 2023 Consensus Football Team Recruiting Rankings.
Sullivan Absher, a four-star offensive tackle recruit from Belmont (N.C.) South Point, is the latest Fighting Irish commit in the 2023 cycle, picking Notre Dame Friday, May 13.
The Irish have one five-star prospect committed in Tampa (Fla.) Berkeley Prep EDGE Keon Keeley, 11 recruits ranked as four-stars and one three-star — all according to the On3 Consensus.
The On3 Consensus Team Recruiting Ranking is the only ranking that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies: On3, 247Sports, Rivals and ESPN. It equally weighs the four media companies at 25 percent.
Instead of a total points system like at Rivals, the On3 Consensus ranking uses a score average of the player rankings, and it 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 six. This means that of Notre Dame’s nine commitments, only the six highest-ranked players are used for the rankings score.
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To further explain that point: Notre Dame’s 13 commits have an average rating of 91.7, but that is not the score used in the ranking. Only the top six Notre Dame commits are used in the On3 Consensus Team Ranking, and the Irish’s score for that group is 93.81.
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 weigh a team’s top three or four highest rated commits and is a more accurate representation of an entire class.
There’s no perfect rankings system this early on, and it’s also a bit pointless to put a whole lot of stock into what class rankings look like seven months before National Signing Day. Still, it’s fun to discuss and we find it important for Fighting Irish fans to get familiar with the On3 team recruiting ranking system.
Below is a look at the top seven schools according to the 2023 Consensus Football Team Recruiting Rankings.
For more details on the On3 Consensus Team Recruiting Ranking, click here.
Notre Dame 2023 recruiting class
Here is the Fighting Irish’s class sorted by commitment timeline:
June 28, 2021 — Four-star DE Keon Keeley, Tampa (Fla.) Berkeley Prep
June 29, 2021 — Four-star DE Brenan Vernon, Mentor (Ohio) High
Aug. 15, 2021 — Four-star S Adon Shuler, Irvington (N.J.) High
Sept. 1, 2021 — Four-star TE Cooper Flanagan, Concord (Calif.) De La Salle
Sept. 22, 2021 — Four-star RB Sedrick Irvin Jr., Miami Gulliver Prep
Nov. 3, 2021 — Four-star LB Drayk Bowen, Merrillville (Ind.) Andrean
Jan. 1, 2022 — Four-star S Peyton Bowen, Denton (Texas) Guyer
Feb. 11, 2022 — Three-star ATH/LB Preston Zinter, Lawrence (Mass.) Central Catholic
April 19, 2022 — Four-star WR Braylon James, Round Rock (Texas) Stony Point
April 25, 2022 — Four-star OL Sam Pendleton, Pfafftown (N.C.) Reagan
April 27, 2022 — Four-star DL Boubacar Traore, West Roxbury (Mass.) Catholic Memorial
May 7, 2022 — Four-star DL Devan Houstan, Hagerstown (Md.) St. James School
May 13, 2022 — Four-star OL Sullivan Absher, Belmont (N.C.) South Point
