Rivals concludes 2024 cycle with overall team rankings

The 2024 recruiting cycle has officially ended.

With August 1st upon us and preseason camps beginning across the country, our transfer team rankings will be final.

This means that the 2024 Composite Team Rankings, which combines high school team recruiting rankings and transfer portal recruiting rankings, is complete and the rankings are complete.

Let’s take a look at some of the notable storylines that have emerged.

Alabama 1st place overall under new manager Karen DeBoerThe former Washington head coach did a good job of putting together an elite high school freshman class after being hired to fill the vacancy he left. Nick SabanOnce DeBoer and his staff got going, they assembled a transfer class that ultimately ranked 13th in the nation.

For the second year in a row, Colorado We won the transfer team rankings. Deion Sanders His staff signed more than 40 transfer prospects, similar to last year. Eight of the 2024 transfer signees were four-star prospects, also more than last year, but none of them were ranked in the top 100 of the transfer player rankings.

In February, Georgia The University of Georgia was crowned the high school recruiting champions thanks to a freshman class that featured four five-stars, 19 four-stars and five three-stars. This was Georgia’s fourth No. 1 ranked freshman class since the 2017 cycle.

SEC programs dominated this year’s overall team rankings: Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Oklahoma Auburn makes up half of the top 10. The Big Ten is represented in the top 10 by: Ohio State University And Oregon. Miami and Florida They are the only ACC program ranked in the top 10.

A look at the top 15 shows a similar trend. Ole Miss, Texas A&M, Florida and LSU That gives Michigan a share of the top 15 teams in the SEC with nine, and Michigan is ranked 15th in the Big Ten, giving Michigan three of the top 15 teams in the overall team rankings.

Player transfers have skyrocketed since the transfer portal was created, and it only seems to be accelerating: The number of players who entered the transfer portal and have since signed, with at least 25 of them, has nearly doubled this year.

Nine programs had at least 25 transfer players in the 2024 cycle. Colorado led the way with more than 40, followed by Memphis, Louisville, ArizonaMassachusetts, Marshall, ConnecticutTexas A&M University, Michigan State University.

In 2023, five programs (Colorado, Charlotte, Arizona State University, SMU Other schools that signed at least 25 transfer players include the University of Louisville, The College of New Jersey, Boston College and Boston University.

In the 2023 transfer portal cycle, there were seven Power Four programs that signed at least 20 transfer prospects. That number more than doubled in the 2024 cycle, swelling to 16 total programs: six from the SEC, five from the Big 12, three from the Big Ten and two from the ACC.

Of the 162 transfer candidates rated four stars or higher, 33 or more have moved to programs in the same conference. This group includes top-10 transfer candidates Walter Nolen (from Texas A&M to Ole Miss), Dante Moore (from Ole Miss), and others.University of California, Los Angeles Lance Hurd (Oregon State University) Tennessee).

Although SEC rules state that players cannot transfer within a conference during the spring transfer period without sitting out a season, there have been a number of transfers within the SEC. Missouri), Isaiah Bond (Alabama to Texas), Trevor Etienne (Florida to Georgia), Princely Umanmillen (Florida to Mississippi), Desmond Ricks (Alabama to Texas A&M), Juice Wells (South Carolina Luis Obigar (Texas A&M to Alabama), L.T. Overton (Texas A&M to Alabama), Amari Niblack (Alabama to Texas) and Kei Lawrence (Oklahoma to Ole Miss) are all top 50 prospects who transferred from one SEC program to another.