The July 4th holiday means we are basically halfway through the year and well on our way to the start of the college football season. At this point in the summer, the college football recruiting news is flying fast and many programs are already beginning to put some finishing touches on their recruiting classes with the early signing period now just months away (December comes faster every year it seems). And the start of the new football season mere weeks away, coaches would like to focus more of their energy on the season rather than recruiting if they can, so now is a good time to see what kind of talent is likely to be heading to the Big Ten in 2024.
We recently took an updated look at the Big Ten’s Class of 2024 rankings at the start of July, but we didn’t look deeper at each school’s top commitment in their respective classes. Perhaps not too surprisingly, the individual player rankings of the top commitments for each program do have a bit of symmetry with the overall class rankings, with a few differences throughout.
Below is a look at each Big Ten member’s top-rated commitment for the Class of 2024. This list includes future members USC and UCLA, each joining the Big Ten in 2024. The rankings used for this information are the 247Sports composite rankings, as of the morning of July 4, 2023.
Note that the Big Ten ranking here reflects just the ranking of the top-rated commit to each Big Ten school. Some schools have players ranked higher in the national rankings that are not included in this list.