National Signing Day(s) has come and gone.
Oklahoma has officially signed all 23 members of its 2020 recruiting class from the early signing day and the national signing day. The Sooners, in a tight scholarship recruiting year, recruited well, but not to the level it has as of late.
Lincoln Riley lost some of the juice from his 2020 class as former commitments Jase McClellan (Alabama), Drew Sanders (Alabama) and Dontae Manning (Oregon) can all be found in the Rivals’ top-100 ranking.
Oklahoma, despite the defections from the class, finished with the 15th ranked recruiting class in the country, according to Rivals. The Sooners finished 11th on the 247Sports composite of all the services and 10th on ESPN.
Texas A&M (No. 6), Tennessee (No. 8), Oregon (No. 9) and Miami (No. 12) signed higher ranked 2020 classes than Oklahoma.
The 2020 class follows three-straight top-10 recruiting classes on Rivals, with Oklahoma’s 2019 class finishing No. 5 (2017, No. 7; 2018, No. 8). The Sooners last finished this low in 2016 at No. 16—the last recruiting year before Riley was hired as Bob Stoops’ offensive coordinator.
For the third-straight year, fifth time in the last six years and seventh time in the last decade, Texas has finished with a higher ranked recruiting class than Oklahoma on Rivals. The Sooners have never been lower than second in the Big 12 in that span.
Oklahoma’s 2021 recruiting class is already being put together with three commitments. It is too early in that process to gauge if Riley and the Sooners will get back into the top-10.
*Rivals is the recruiting service used unless noted
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