I tend to agree with you. Here comes the however part. We dropped one prospect and had two defensive flips according to Seth s front page article on Stargazing . They are:
Quintin Somerville: appeared to decommit due to Nua s eventual departure and stayed out west with UCLA. (signing day flip)
Casey Phinney: Per Seth - I kept the data so might as well update it. I figured there might be a drop when he got dropped from Michigan s class and flipped to BC, but he s been basically ignored.
Brandon Jennings: A guy that flipped to us from Florida State that then flipped to Maryland (signing day flip)
Stargazing: December 2020
Seth
December 22nd, 2020 at 10:46 AM
It s time for our quarterly review of relevant recruiting rankings. Why? Because big moves can mean as much as where they re ranked. Ratings are on a curved 5-star scale that averages all available data. Remember that players will tick downwards as a class progresses so dropping from 150th to 158th in a three-month period is nothing. Further explanation of all this here. Updated roster data are here.
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As Alabama, Ohio State, Clemson, Oregon, Notre Dame, Oklahoma and Florida prepared to play for conference championships, they signed top-10 recruiting classes for 2021 they hope to fuel their next title contenders.
The most unusual college football season in memory brought the convergence Wednesday of the start of the early signing period with the end of the regular season, which includes 10 conference championship games this weekend.
“I could be here all day talking about how different this is,” Ohio State coach Ryan Day said on the Big Ten Network.
The pandemic has altered much about the college football season and recruiting this year, but somethings never change. Alabama is on the way to having the highest-rated class in the country. The Buckeyes are not far behind. And it starts at the top.
How Michigan’s 2021 recruiting class stacks up against rest of Big Ten
Updated Dec 18, 2020;
Posted Dec 18, 2020
West Bloomfield running back Donovan Edwards announced his commitment to play football at the University of Michigan in signing ceremony on Dec. 16, 2020.Jared Purcell | japurcell@mlive.com
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Michigan’s football program had an eventful national signing day.
It added its top remaining 2021 target in West Bloomfield four-star running back Donovan Edwards and also held on to two prospects who were strongly considering other schools: four-star receiver Xavier Worthy and three-star cornerback Ja’Den McBurrows.
But the Wolverines also lost two of their top defensive prospects as four-star linebacker Branden Jennings flipped to Maryland and four-star defensive end Quintin Somerville flipped to UCLA.
Late recruiting push has UCLA flipping over its signing-day successes [Los Angeles Times]
It’s not you, it’s them.
In a 2020 twist on the standard breakup line, a handful of high school prospects told their original college choices they weren’t coming Wednesday because they had found something better: a future with the UCLA Bruins.
Defensive ends Christian Burkhalter, AJ Campbell and Quintin Somerville formalized their commitments to UCLA on the first day of the early signing period after having previously said they were headed elsewhere. Safety Josh Moore signed with the Bruins after having once committed at different times to Stanford and USC. And in perhaps the wackiest development of the day, wide receiver-defensive back Devin Kirkwood signed with UCLA … after having decommitted from UCLA earlier this month.