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BYU just jumped Notre Dame in the AP Top 25 rankings Sunday and now stands at No. 11.
Pick Six Previews is a comprehensive matrix-driven college football magazine produced by Brett Ciancia. The magazine has research that includes interviews with every major college football program and uses 247Sports Recruiting rankings as a big basis for breaking down leagues and teams.
In the 2024 edition, Ciancia’s top four Big 12 teams followed exactly how the media voted in preseason with Utah first, followed by K-State and OSU tied with UCF.
Today, BYU and Iowa State are 4-0 and undefeated on the season and sit atop the Big 12 standings.
According to recruiting rankings, BYU’s past five-year average ranking is No. 66 nationally with the No. 44 class in 2024, No. 65 in 2023, No. 55 in 2022, No. 72 in 2021 and No. 79 in 2020.
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BYU’s average of 66 is
UCF, BYU’s opponent Saturday, has an average rank in the past five classes of 56 and Utah is among the best at 31, yet the Utes have lost three straight games in their inaugural season in this league.
So, what does all this mean?
Obviously, these recruiting rankings are supposed to tell a story of talent on rosters.
If so, why is BYU 4-0 when going up against talent that so-called experts in the field recognize to be superior?
I posed this question to people who have coached, played and competed at a high level.
