In last year's HERO Sports FCS national recruiting rankings, the Ivy League had three teams in the Top 10 classes: No. 6 Harvard, No. 2 Yale and No. 1 Princeton.
In 2017 it was Harvard with the No. 1 overall class and the year before Yale ranked No. 2.
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The trend of attracting some of the top recruits in the FCS is continuing this year. Our own Brian McLaughlin ranked the Top 30 2019 commits in the Ivy League and the talent level is unreal. Every player in the ranking but two had multiple FBS offers. (And those other two had a combined 20+ FCS offers.)
Ivy League teams this year have won recruiting battles against FBS programs like Maryland, Boston College, Syracuse, Virginia, Texas Tech, Navy, Utah State and Cincinnati. And when it comes to ranking individual position groups in the FCS, it's loaded with Ivy League commits.
The conference has these Top 10 individual recruits:
- Defensive line: No. 2, No. 3, No. 5, No. 7
- Linebackers: No. 6
- Defensive backs: No. 6, No. 8, No. 10
- Quarterbacks: No. 2, No. 4
- Running backs: No. 1
- Offensive line: No. 4, No. 6
The full position and conference recruiting rankings can be found on our Recruiting Central Page.
Our Top 50 team rankings and Top 250 overall individual rankings come out next Monday (Feb. 11) after the commitments turn into signees. There's a good chance the Ivy League will again have teams at or near the top.
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