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SEC Football Teams Make an INSANE Number of Offers to Recruits

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May 11, 2017
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SEC Football Teams Make an INSANE Number of Offers to Recruits

How many scholarship offers do you think college football teams make to recruits each season? Fifty? Sixty? Bear in mind, each team has 85 scholarships to dole out for the whole roster, and up to 25 per class. 

As of May 11, Tennessee has made 332 scholarship offers to football recruits in the 2018 class, according to 247Sports. That's the most among Power Five schools (including Notre Dame). Nine of those offers have been accepted, giving the Vols 323 outstanding offers, second only to Iowa State (326), who ranks second in total offers with 331.

Tennessee is one of nine teams who've made at least 250 offers. Five of those are in the SEC, including four of the top six. 

Coaches routinely criticize other programs for making too many offers, often without the intention of accepting every recruit's verbal commitment. Last week, Iowa offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz, the son long of longtime Hawkeyes' head coach Kirk Ferentz, blasted Iowa State and Minnesota for their recruiting tactics.

"The guys in Ames and the new guy in Minneapolis seem to have no problem throwing early things out," Ferentz said of second-year Cyclones' head coach Matt Campbell and first-year Gophers' head coach P.J. Fleck. "What I’ve learned, certainly about the guys in Ames, we’ll find out about the guys in Minneapolis, what does an offer really mean?

“I can tell you this much, if the University of Iowa offers you a scholarship and you commit to us, we intend to sign you and we intend to take your commitment. I think you have to look no further than in-state to see there were a lot of offers that went out in the 2018 class very early out of Ames. And I’m not sure all of those guys were able to commit to them if they wanted to, because some of those guys have since gone other places.”

Iowa ranks 56th of 65 Power Five schools and Notre Dame with 98 offers, less than half of Minnesota (210) and one-third of Iowa State (331). The Hawkeyes have 93 outstanding offers, compared to 196 for the Gophers and 326 for the Cyclones. The Power Five average is 175.6 total offers and 169.4 outstanding offers.

Average

Conference Total Offers Commits Outstanding Offers
SEC 225.1 5.7 219.4
Big Ten 183 7.1 175.9
ACC 179.1 6.3 172.8
Big 12 145.5 6.5 139
Pac-12 132.6 4.9 127.7

The Big 12 and Pac-12 are both the smallest power conferences, and the most stingy.

The Big 12 has three of the 10 teams with fewer than 100 offers, but they have none of the three teams with fewer than 75 offers: Northwestern (68), Washington (61) and Stanford (32). For context on the Cardinal's selective recruiting, Tennessee has more offers out to both receivers (48) and cornerbacks (41) than Stanford has total.

In all, the SEC has nearly double — or more than double — the number of total offers and outstanding offers than the Pac-12 and Big 12. Granted, they do have two more teams than the Pac-12 and four more than the Big 12, but the disparities are staggering.

Total 

Conference Total Offers Commits Outstanding Offers
SEC 3,151 80 3,071
Big Ten 2,562 100 2,462
ACC 2,507 88 2,419
Pac-12 1,591 59 1,532
Big 12 1,455 65 1,390

All but three SEC teams rank in the top 21 for total offers, led by Tennessee, Kentucky and Ole Miss in the top five. Auburn, Arkansas and Texas A&M are the lone outliers; they are the only SEC teams with fewer than 200 total offers.

Here's a full team-by-team breakdown, sorted by total offers:

Rank Team Conference Total Offers Commits Outstanding Offers
1 Tennessee SEC 332 9 323
2 Iowa State Big 12 331 5 326
3 Kentucky SEC 298 7 291
4 Syracuse ACC 297 6 291
5 Ole Miss SEC 282 2 280
6 Mississippi State SEC 279 8 271
7 Rutgers Big Ten 276 2 274
8 Indiana Big Ten 273 4 269
9 Georgia SEC 254 3 251
10 Maryland Big Ten 237 5 232
11 Louisville ACC 235 5 230
12 West Virginia Big 12 234 5 229
13 Alabama SEC 231 3 228
14 NC State ACC 225 4 221
15 LSU SEC 222 15 204
16 Florida SEC 221 6 215
17 South Carolina SEC 214 6 208
18 Oregon Pac-12 212 9 203
19 Vanderbilt SEC 211 3 208
20 Minnesota Big Ten 210 14 196
21 Missouri SEC 209 1 208
22 Michigan Big Ten 205 8 197
23 Purdue Big Ten 197 1 196
24 Michigan State Big Ten 194 5 189
25 Virginia Tech ACC 192 6 186
26 North Carolina ACC 190 3 187
27 Virginia ACC 190 7 183
28 Duke ACC 188 8 180
29 Boston College ACC 185 8 177
30 UCLA Pac-12 185 9 176
31 Wisconsin Big Ten 180 9 171
32 Nebraska Big Ten 176 10 166
33 Auburn SEC 176 6 170
34 Pittsburgh ACC 173 2 171
35 Oklahoma Big 12 171 6 165
36 Miami (FL) ACC 169 17 152
37 Colorado Pac-12 159 7 152
38 Oregon State Pac-12 157 3 154
39 Wake Forest ACC 156 6 150
40 Illinois Big Ten 156 2 154
41 Penn State Big Ten 149 13 136
42 Utah Pac-12 147 3 144
43 Notre Dame Independent 146 11 135
44 Ohio State Big Ten 143 9 134
45 TCU Big 12 142 6 136
46 Washington State Pac-12 141 3 138
47 Arizona Pac-12 140 4 136
48 Florida State ACC 135 8 127
49 Arkansas SEC 131 4 127
50 Arizona State Pac-12 130 0 130
51 USC Pac-12 120 6 114
52 Oklahoma State Big 12 114 11 103
53 Kansas Big 12 113 8 105
54 Cal Pac-12 107 3 104
55 Texas Tech Big 12 102 4 98
56 Iowa Big Ten 98 5 93
57 Baylor Big 12 93 12 81
58 Clemson ACC 92 8 84
59 Texas A&M SEC 91 7 84
60 Georgia Tech ACC 80 0 80
61 Texas Big 12 80 8 72
62 Kansas State Big 12 75 0 75
63 Northwestern Big Ten 68 13 55
64 Washington Pac-12 61 8 53
65 Stanford Pac-12 32 4 28
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