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Football Schedule

09/02 @
3-23 W
09/09
35-7 W
09/16
63-10 W
09/23 @
14-17 W
10/07
37-17 W
10/14 @
7-41 W
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10/21
20-12 W
10/28 @
10-24 W
11/04 @
16-35 W
11/11
38-3 W
11/18
37-3 W
11/25 @
30-24 L
12/29
3-14 L

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Crystal Ball Predictions

- Jaime Ffrench
- WR / 6-1 / 185
- 0.9892
- Predicted by: Zach Blostein
- 6 Med
- Cody Haddad
- ATH / 6-1 / 175
- 0.8811
- Predicted by: Bill Kurelic
- 6 Med
- Tarvos Alford
- LB / 6-2 / 210
- 0.9671
- Predicted by: Bill Kurelic
- 6 Med
- Tarvos Alford
- LB / 6-2 / 210
- 0.9671
- Predicted by: Brian Dohn
- 6 Med
- Tarvos Alford
- LB / 6-2 / 210
- 0.9671
- Predicted by: Steve Wiltfong
- 6 Med
- Tarvos Alford
- LB / 6-2 / 210
- 0.9671
- Predicted by: Tom Loy
- 6 Med
- Tarvos Alford
- LB / 6-2 / 210
- 0.9671
- Predicted by: Blake Alderman
- 6 Med
- Nate Roberts
- TE / 6-4 / 235
- 0.9430
- Predicted by: Collin Kennedy
- 6 Med
- Vip Scoop
- Elbert Hill
- CB / 5-10 / 170
- 0.9835
- Predicted by: Bill Kurelic
- 6 Med
- Vip Scoop
- Vernell Brown III
- WR / 5-11 / 170
- 0.9624
- Predicted by: Tom Loy
- 6 Med
- Jaime Ffrench
- WR / 6-1 / 185
- 0.9892
- Predicted by: Tom Loy
- 6 Med
- Vernell Brown III
- WR / 5-11 / 170
- 0.9624
- Predicted by: Steve Wiltfong
- 6 Med
- Jaime Ffrench
- WR / 6-1 / 185
- 0.9892
- Predicted by: Steve Wiltfong
- 6 Med
- London Merritt
- DL / 6-2.5 / 250
- 0.9497
- Predicted by: Steve Wiltfong
- 6 Med
- Faheem Delane
- S / 6-2.5 / 195
- 0.9832
- Predicted by: Tom Loy
- 6 Med
- Faheem Delane
- S / 6-2.5 / 195
- 0.9832
- Predicted by: Brian Dohn
- 6 Med
- Faheem Delane
- S / 6-2.5 / 195
- 0.9832
- Predicted by: Steve Wiltfong
- 6 Med
- Na'eem Offord
- CB / 6-1 / 185
- 0.9978
- Predicted by: Steve Wiltfong
- 6 Med
- Carter Lowe
- OT / 6-5 / 290
- 0.9718
- Predicted by: Justin Thind
- 5 Med
- Carter Lowe
- OT / 6-5 / 290
- 0.9718
- Predicted by: Allen Trieu
- 6 Med
- Will Conroy
- IOL / 6-3 / 275
- 0.8990
- Predicted by: Bill Kurelic
- 6 Med
- Nate Roberts
- TE / 6-4 / 235
- 0.9430
- Predicted by: Steve Wiltfong
- 6 Med
- Dorian Brew
- CB / 6-2 / 185
- 0.9875
- Predicted by: Steve Wiltfong
- 6 Med
- Bo Jackson
- RB / 6-0 / 205
- 0.9621
- Predicted by: Bill Kurelic
- 6 Med
- Vip Scoop
- Dorian Brew
- CB / 6-2 / 185
- 0.9875
- Predicted by: Josh Edwards
- 6 Med

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Ohio State target Trey Townsend will transfer to Arizona

Brandon Jenkins 19 hours ago

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FB Recruiting VIP Premium Tom Loy 20 hours ago

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Chris Henry Jr. leads way as numerous Ohio State targets/offers in initial 247Sports 2026 Top247

FB Recruiting Bill Kurelic 20 hours ago

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College Football Dave Biddle 22 hours ago

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Patrick Murphy 22 hours ago

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What I am hearing on Ohio State recruiting

FB Recruiting VIP Premium Bill Kurelic Apr 23, 3:33 PM

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Questions for Kurelic - Fire away In The Dean's Office

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Top Targets

Joshua Blackston
OT / 6-5 / 275 NA
David Sanders Jr.
OT / 6-6 / 270 0.9991
- 100%
Devin Sanchez
CB / 6-2 / 170 0.9978

Committed - 1/6/2024
Dakorien Moore
WR / 5-11 / 175 0.9991

Committed - 8/12/2023

2025 Recruiting Rankings

The Formula
where c is a specific team's total number of commits and R_n is the 247Sports Composite Rating of the nth-best commit times 100.
Explanation
In order to create the most comprehensive Team Recruiting Ranking without any notion of bias, 247Sports Team Recruiting Ranking is solely based on the 247Sports Composite Rating.
Each recruit is weighted in the rankings according to a Gaussian distribution formula (a bell curve), where a team's best recruit is worth the most points. You can think of a team's point score as being the sum of ratings of all the team's commits where the best recruit is worth 100% of his rating value, the second best recruit is worth nearly 100% of his rating value, down to the last recruit who is worth a small fraction of his rating value. This formula ensures that all commits contribute at least some value to the team's score without heavily rewarding teams that have several more commitments than others.
Readers familiar with the Gaussian distribution formula will note that we use a varying value for σ based on the standard deviation for the total number of commits between schools for the given sport. This standard deviation creates a bell curve with an inflection point near the average number of players recruited per team.
Below is a graphical representation of how our formula works. You can see that the area under the curve gets smaller both as the rating for a commit decreases and as the number of total commits for a school increases. The y-axis in this graph represents the percentage weight of the score that gets applied to an overall team ranking.