On3 Consensus Team Recruiting Rankings: Top 2022 classes at the start of November

The recruiting trail has been heating up over the past few weeks with big-time commitments, unexpected decommitments, mid-season coaching changes and more. And there is no slowing down as the start of November means six more weeks before the Early Signing Day.

Many teams have key members of their recruiting classes already in place. But they are all far from finished, and the next month will play a large role in convincing players to commit — and convincing some to stay committed. Here are a breakdown of top 20 ranked teams in the On3 Consensus Team Recruiting Rankings at the start of November.

1. Alabama (94.634)
4 five-stars | 14 four-stars | 0 three-stars | 18 total recruits
Top Commit: Alabaster (Ala.) Thompson EDGE Jeremiah Alexander, No. 11 in On3 Consensus
Summary: Alabama has four consensus five-star commits — Alexander, quarterback Ty Simpson, offensive tackle Tyler Booker and running back Emmanuel Henderson. No other program has more than two five-stars committed. It is not just that Alabama has more five-stars than any other program. They also don’t have any recruits rated below four stars. Every other Power Five team in the country has at least one three-star commit.

2. Georgia (94.418)
2 five-stars | 13 four-stars | 6 three-stars | 21 total recruits
Top Commit: Jefferson (Ga.) athlete Malaki Starks, No. 8
Summary: Georgia has overtaken Alabama once already this year in the AP Poll, and there is a chance they could do the same in the recruiting rankings. The Bulldogs have earned commitments from five-star defensive lineman Mykel Williams, four-star defensive lineman Bear Alexander and four-star offensive lineman Aliou Bah in the last few weeks. Their hot streak doesn’t look to be ending soon.

3. Ohio State (93.541)
1 five-stars | 13 four-stars | 2 three-stars | 16 total recruits
Top Commit: Dayton (Ohio) Archbishop Alter linebacker C.J. Hicks, No. 10
Summary: Ohio State may have been at the top of this list if Quinn Ewers, the original No. 1 recruit in the 2022 On300 rankings, reclassified over the summer. But even without Ewers, the class is stocked full of great commits. The most recent star commit is Hollywood (Fla.) Chaminade-Madonna Prep EDGE Kenyatta Jackson Jr., the No. 86 overall recruit in the On3 Consensus.

4. Clemson (93.368)
1 five-stars | 10 four-stars | 1 three-stars | 13 total recruits
Top Commit: Austin (Texas) Westlake quarterback Cade Klubnik, No. 22
Summary: Klubnik is the star of the class but the backbone of Clemson’s 2022 recruiting class is IMG Academy. Three of their top five recruits play at IMG: four-star cornerback Daylen Everette, four-star EDGE Jihaad Campbell and four-star athlete Keon Sabb. Sabb and Everette even committed to the Tigers on the same day.

5. Oklahoma (92.848)
1 five-stars | 14 four-stars | 2 three-stars | 17 total recruits
Top Commit: Lakeland (Fla.) High defensive lineman Gabriel Brownlow-Dindy, No. 4
Summary: Oklahoma is making a late run up the rankings, having picked up its top two recruits in Brownlow-Dindy and Tulsa (Okla.) Booker T. Washington athlete Gentry Williams in October. The Sooners top eight recruits all come from different states — California, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas. But their next eight recruits all play in either Texas or Oklahoma.

6. Penn State (92.609)
0 five-stars | 16 four-stars | 6 three-stars | 26 total recruits
Top Commit: Owings Mills (Md.) McDonogh School EDGE Dani Dennis-Sutton, No. 41
Summary: The highest-ranked team without a five-star commit, Penn State’s class has both quality and quantity. No team in the country has as many commits as Penn State has with 26. And its 16 four-star pledges include top-50 prospects in Dennis-Sutton, Reading (Pa.) Governor Mifflin running back Nick Singleton and Medina (Ohio) High quarterback Drew Allar.

7. Notre Dame (92.580)
1 five-stars | 19 four-stars | 1 three-stars | 21 total recruits
Top Commit: Hilton Head Island (S.C.) Hilton Head linebacker Jaylen Sneed, No. 25
Summary: Notre Dame has built a solid all-around class. Sneed is the only player in the top 100 of the On3 Consensus but the Fighting Irish have nine commits in ranked in the 100s. They are loaded at linebacker as well with Sneed, Traverse City (Mich.) Central’s Joshua Burnham, Mission Hills (Calif.) Bishop Alemany’s Niuafe Tuihalamaka and Grand Rapids (Mich.) Catholic Central’s Nolan Ziegler.

8. Texas A&M (92.468)
2 five-stars | 11 four-stars | 1 three-stars | 14 total recruits
Top Commit: Beaumont (Texas) West Brook athlete Bryce Anderson, No. 24
Summary: Texas A&M are believed to be in the lead or among the favorites for some five-stars still left on the board, so this class has the potential to jump into the top five if the chips fall the right way. But even if that doesn’t happen, Jimbo Fisher and his staff have done a great job recruiting this cycle. Their class is built on the Lone Star State as all but two of their commits come from Texas.

9. Texas (92.359)
0 five-stars | 15 four-stars | 7 three-stars | 22 total recruits
Top Commit: Spearman (Texas) High athlete Brenen Thompson, No. 48
Summary: No five-stars — yet — for the Longhorns but the class is filled with future starters for Texas. Unlike in-state recruiting rival Texas A&M, the Longhorns class is much more diverse in regards to location. There are nine commits from outside the state of Texas.

10. North Carolina (92.132)
2 five-stars | 9 four-stars | 4 three-stars | 15 total recruits
Top Commit: Greensboro (N.C.) Grimsley defensive lineman Travis Shaw, No. 12
Summary: North Carolina may be underperforming on the football field this season but the Tar Heels are on the verge of finishing the cycle with a top-10 recruiting class. There’s still time to go, but if its accomplished, its two current five-star recruits in Shaw and Lynchburg (Va.) Liberty Christian Academy offensive tackle Zach Rice will be a major reason why.

11. LSU (92.027)
1 five-stars | 9 four-stars | 4 three-stars | 14 total recruits
Top Commit: Monroe (La.) Neville offensive tackle Will Campbell, No. 23
Summary: Ed Oregron will be gone at the end of the season, and it remains to be seen how that will affect recruiting. No. 34 overall recruit and LSU legacy Walker Howard is visiting Ole Miss this week after visiting Notre Dame on Oct. 23. Four-star wideout Aaron Anderson decommitted from LSU and committed to Alabama because Oregron left.

12. Oregon (91.984)
1 five-stars | 16 four-stars | 3 three-stars | 20 total recruits
Top Commit: Humble (Texas) Summer Creek offensive tackle Kelvin Banks, No. 18
Summary: The Ducks lost one of their best recruits in four-star wideout Nicholas Anderson on Monday when he flipped to Oklahoma, but the Ducks still have put a great class together. Banks is the standout and makes up a great core with Anaheim (Calif.) Servite wide receiver Tetairoa McMillan and San Diego Lincoln teammates Jalil Tucker and Jahlil Florence.

13. Florida State (90.977)
1 five-stars | 8 four-stars | 7 three-stars | 16 total recruits
Top Commit: Suwanee (Ga.) Collins Hill athlete Travis Hunter, No. 1
Summary: The No. 1 player in the On3 Consensus, Hunter is a phenom. Georgia is making a push for him but if Florida State can get him on campus, it would be arguably the biggest win for the program, both on and off the field, since Mike Norvell took over. Hunter isn’t the only great player committed to Florida State, although he does give the class a top-heavy balance to it.

14. Missouri (90.550)
1 five-stars | 8 four-stars | 6 three-stars | 15 total recruits
Top Commit: East St. Louis (Ill.) wide receiver Luther Burden, No. 13
Summary: Earning Burden’s commitment two weeks ago was huge for Missouri as he immediately become one of the best commits in school history. He was a can’t miss recruit for the program, and beating out teams like Georgia for him only adds to the sweetness of the recruiting win. There are other good Missouri commits as well, but Burden is the alpha and omega of the 2022 Tigers class.

15. USC (90.169)
1 five-stars | 4 four-stars | 3 three-stars | 9 total recruits
Top Commit: Santa Ana (Calif.) Mater Dei cornerback Domani Jackson, No. 5
Summary: USC had two five-star commits before Columbus (Ga.) Hardaway defensive lineman Mykel Williams flipped to Georgia. After firing Clay Helton early in the season, it has been an interesting time on the trail for the Trojans. They have picked up a commitment from four-star safety Ephesians Prysock but they also lost three-star linebacker Ty Kana. Many teams are also trying to flip their second-highest commit, four-star quarterback Devin Brown.

16. Kentucky (90.159)
1 five-stars | 8 four-stars | 6 three-stars | 15 total recruits
Top Commit: Charlestown (Ind.) High offensive tackle Kiyaunta Goodwin, No. 14
Summary: Goodwin, the highest-ranked commit during the Mark Stoops era, is the superstar of the recruiting class for Kentucky. Goodwin is in the midst of visiting other schools but the Wildcats wouldn’t let me good with a fight. There are only one other player among the top 150 and five total players in the top 300 in the country committed to Kentucky. Goodwin is the difference between a good and a great class for the Wildcats.

17. Florida (89.675)
0 five-stars | 8 four-stars | 5 three-stars | 13 total recruits
Top Commit: Buford (Ga.) High cornerback Isaiah Bond, No. 134
Summary: October was not pretty for the Gators. Florida went 1-3 during the month with its only win a victory over a Vanderbilt team that hasn’t won an SEC game in two years. They also lost commitments from their top two commits in four-star linebacker Shemar James and four-star cornerback Julian Humphrey.

18. Michigan (89.434)
1 five-stars | 6 four-stars | 9 three-stars | 16 total recruits
Top Commit: Grosse Pointe (Mich.) Grosse Pointe South cornerback Will Johnson, No. 21
Summary: Michigan, like a few others on this list, has an undisputed best recruit who is ranked well ahead of everyone else in the class. That best recruit is Johnson, and he is ranked almost 120 slots higher than Bolingbrook (Ill.) Plainfield East four-star wideout Tyler Morris. Germantown (Tenn.) Germantown safety Kody Jones is the only other commit in the top 300. It’s a weird class for the Wolverines as these big gaps between commits is partially because of widely differeing views on its commits. Belleville (Mich.) High’s Aaron Alexander is a prime example. He is the No. 282 player in the On3 but the No. 1311 ranked player in the On3 Consensus.

19. Stanford (89.416)
0 five-stars | 7 four-stars | 13 three-stars | 20 total recruits
Top Commit: Arlington (Texas) Martin EDGE Ernest Cooper IV, No. 127
Summary: David Shaw has demonstrated his ability to recruit consistently good classes, even considering the school’s academic standards. While he hasn’t recruited any five-stars this time around, he has a class that currently has only three-stars and above. Their seven four-star recruits come from six different states and the total class features recruits from 14 different states.

20. Miami (88.959)
0 five-stars | 6 four-stars | 2 three-stars | 8 total recruits
Top Commit: Lexington (Miss.) Holmes County cornerback Khamauri Rogers, No. 113
Summary: Miami has the smallest class of any team in the top 20 with only eight recruits. Six of them are four-stars with Rogers and Fort Meyers (Fla.) Bishop Verot athlete Chris Graves leading the class.