With college football kicking off, it is once again time to take an updated look at the national recruiting rankings and see how teams in the Big Ten stack up against each other and nationally. There has not been too much movement in the overall pecking order inside the Big Ten, although a few notable changes have been made compared to where things stood a month ago.
Shortly after we published our look at the Big Ten recruiting rankings on August 1, 247 Sports updated their math to reflect recent changes with Ohio State’s Class of 2022. Those changes ended up moving Ohio State down a few spots nationally for the Class of 2022 and allowed Penn State to ascend to the top spot in the national and Big Ten rankings. As the month of September begins, Penn State continues to sit on top of the recruiting rankings as the football season has started. Can the Nittany Lions hold on to the top spot without a single five-star commitment? Time will tell if this unprecedented accomplishment can be achieved.
There were some small changes in the overall Big ten rankings in the past month with Michigan State wiggling ahead of Indiana and Iowa climbing out of the Big Ten basement to move ahead of a Nebraska program that continues to struggle to find its way.
We’ll see how things change in the Big Ten recruiting scene now that games are being played, big official visits are lined up for the biggest game son the schedule, and teams pile up wins and losses along the way.
Here is where things stand in the recruiting rankings for the Big Ten as determined by the composite team rankings calculated by 247 Sports. We have ranked each Big Ten team from the highest to the lowest ranking in the Big Ten, and have noted where each school ranks nationally. We also noted where each team was ranked nationally in our last monthly update posted on August 1.