ESPN has updated its team recruiting rankings and Ohio State remains just below Alabama for the top spot in the 2021 recruiting cycle.
For the longest time, the Buckeye program was head and shoulders in front of all the teams for the class as it hauled in a bushel of top prospects early on in the COVID-19 NCAA recruiting dead period. Since June though, Ohio State’s progress has slowed a bit while the Tide picked up some serious steam and eventually overtook OSU.
And that’s where the teams remain today with Oregon (3), Clemson (4), Tennessee (5), LSU (6), Florida (7), Miami (8), North Carolina (9), and USC (10) rounding out the top ten.
Ohio State does have more ESPN 300 commitments than any other program and may be able to overtake Alabama if rumors of another prospect committing in the very near future occur as many think.