Notre Dame moves up in On3 Consensus Team Recruiting Rankings after Jeremiyah Love commitment
St. Louis Christian Brothers’ Jeremiyah Love, who ranks as the No. 62 overall player and No. 5 running back according to the 2023 On3 Consensus, announced his commitment to Notre Dame over Michigan, Texas A&M and others on Saturday afternoon.
With the commitment, Notre Dame slid past Ohio State for the No. 3 spot in the 2023 On3 Consensus Football Team Recruiting Rankings. It’s a slight lead, as Notre Dame has a score of 93.489 compared to Ohio State’s 93.355.
The Fighting Irish have 23 commitments, which includes one On3 Consensus five-star recruit (safety Peyton Bowen) and 20 four-star prospects. Ten of Notre Dame’s commits rank inside the top 150 of the On3 Consensus national rankings.
It’ll be difficult for Notre Dame to hold on to the No. 3 spot when it’s all said and done, but a top-five position at the end of the cycle still seems obtainable, as Marcus Freeman and the Irish staff still have room to add more prospects.
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Below is a look at the top seven schools according to the 2023 On3 Consensus Football Team Recruiting Rankings, as of Saturday evening.
Understanding On3’s team rankings system
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.
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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 17. This means that of Notre Dame’s 23 commitments, only the 17 highest-ranked players are used for the rankings score.
To further explain that point: Notre Dame’s 23 commits have an average rating of 92.12, but that is not the score used in the ranking. With Notre Dame’s top 17 commits only being used in the On3 Consensus Team Ranking, and the Irish’s score with that group is 93.489 — and 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 weigh a team’s top three or four highest rated commits and is a more accurate representation of an entire class.
