College football 2024 team recruiting rankings as October ends

Will No. 1 stay there?

The lifeblood of team success in college football remains recruiting.  Sure, there is recruiting players in the transfer portal these days and that’s certainly important, but if you’re going to compete for anything noteworthy, you better be having success on the recruiting front.

As we move from October to November and get ready for the homeward stretch of the college football regular season, we thought it’d be a good idea to look at the current recruiting rankings for the 2024 recruiting cycle.

Is Georgia a shoe-in for the top class or is a Big Ten team (now or future one for that matter) going to catch them?

Can Notre Dame add to what currently is a top 10 class?

Where are Colorado and a few others you’d expect to see?

Here are the top 40 recruiting classes for 2024 according to the 247Sports composite rankings.

Blue chip prospects are the total number of four and five-star recruits in each team’s class.