Ranking the top 15 recruiting classes in college football history
On Feb. 3, after the fax machines have spit out their last signed national letters of intent and the recruiting services have finished tallying points to determine the winner of the mythical recruiting national title, some fan base will declare its 2010 haul the greatest recruiting class of all time. Chances are, that fan base will be wrong.
But the inevitability does raise an interesting question: What set of signees really comprises the best class in college football history?
After days spent poring over media guides and historical databases, I’ve come up with the answer. In compiling the 15 classes that represent the pinnacle of college football recruiting, I established a few criteria:
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