While we are consistently told that recruiting rankings don’t matter, that will forever be a farce.
Yes, maybe NFL teams are made up of guys who were undervalued coming out of high school, but at the college level the amount of blue-chippers a team has directly ties into whether or not they have a realistic shot at winning the national title.
According to 247Sports, dating back to 2011 the team that has won it all at the college level has at least 51% of their roster rated as blue-chip recruits. These players were labeled a four-star or higher throughout their recruitment.
Every program across the country has interest in landing the top dogs, but not everyone is capable of doing so. However, just because a five-star won’t go to a certain program doesn’t mean that they have nabbed an elite recruit in their program’s history. That is why I decided to take a look at every team in the Big 12 to see who their top recruit was.
Whether they panned out or not is a different story for a different day. Let’s take a look at every Big 12 team’s highest ranked recruit in school history according to 247Sports.