Fact or Fiction: Ohio State will win 2025 recruiting title

Rivals rankings director and national transfer portal analyst Adam Friedman is joined by Jeremy Birmingham of DottingTheEyes.com, Mark Passwaters of AggieYell.com and Tyler James of InsideNDSports.com to tackle three topics and determine whether they believe each statement is FACT or FICTION.

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1. No program will be able to surpass No. 1 Ohio State in the team recruiting rankings.

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Friedman: FACT. This is a tough one because Ohio State has an obvious path to winning the team recruiting championship but Texas (2002) and USC (2004, 2005, 2006, 2010 and 2015) are the only programs outside the SEC to ever win it. History is obviously aligned against the Buckeyes but they only hold 15 commitments right now and they’re in the running for multiple five-star and highly ranked four-star prospects. It’s not out of the question to think Ohio State could land five more Rivals250 prospects, including one or two five-stars.

Birmingham: FICTION. A Big Ten program has never won the Rivals.com team recruiting title so the odds are definitely stacked against Ohio State but the Buckeyes are in a solid position heading into the last big recruiting weekend of June.

There are a number of players on the board left for Ohio State that will make or break its pursuit of that national recruiting title, though. The Buckeyes remain a very real threat for Jordon Davison, Dakorien Moore, David Sanders, Micah Debose, Malik Autry, Riley Pettijohn, Dorian Brew and others. If those recruitments go Ohio State’s…


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Publish date : 2024-06-17 16:31:09

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