(08-03-2022 03:26 PM)TDenverFan Wrote: One thing that I think really helps the SEC is there isn't much deadweight, outside of Vanderbilt the lowest ranked program is Arkansas, at 35. They're tied with Washington, who will be the PAC 12's 2nd highest rated brand.
In the rightmost column, among the bottom 22 programs, you have the following conference breakdown:
SEC: 1
Big 10: 5
ACC: 5
BIG 12: 4
PAC 12: 7
I'm a little surprised at how low a few programs rank - Utah and UVA in particular.
This is their methodology:
https://officialvisit.com/blog/2022-coll...rand-study
This has some interesting graphs showing correlation between these ratings and recruiting success, wins, revenue, etc.
They used the Top 500 recruits from 247 as the basis for sampling 1000 HS football players (not the top recruits themself). They then asked the football players to imagine that if they were the #1 recruit in the country and received an offer from these 66 schools (P5 + ND + BYU) how likely (on a scale of 1 to 10) were they likely to choose each school.
If you are from Alabama, you would probably give Alabama and Auburn a 10, and Georgia and Florida and FSU and Tennessee, etc. But you might give WSU a zero or a very low score.
The lowest score was 5.43 for BYU, which means the average player gave them a 5 or 6.
Alabama got a 7.91. Rather than everyone giving them an eight, likely most gave them a 10, and then it trailed off from there.
215 of the 500 top recruits on 247 are from the SEC footprint, so 43% of those quizzed are familiar with SEC football. Add in Texas and Oklahoma, and you are over 60%.
The B1G footprint is around 20%. The Pac 12 15%.
So SEC schools got higher ratings based on familiarity from a bulk of the players surveyed.
Looking at where California recruits in the 247 Top 500 committed to, 20 went to Pac 12 schools (weirdly Arizona ended up first with UCLA second).
12 went to national brands: Georgia, Florida, Ohio State, Michigan, Notre Dame, Texas, Oklahoma. 4 went to others: Michigan State, Colorado State, Boston College, and Harvard.
Alabama recruits: 16 to SEC schools, including Alabama 7, and Auburn 3. The other four went to Clemson, Georgia Tech, and Cincinnati.