Michigan remains in team rankings Top 10 after Rivals300 update

Rivals released a new rankings update Monday afternoon, naming Michigan commit Carter Meadows the No. 1 edge rusher in the country and moving up five-star running back Savion Hiter to No. 8 in the class. 

Following all of the movement from the Wolverines’ 23 senior commits, the program remains ranked tenth in the Rivals Industry Team Recruiting Rankings. 

Michigan holds the No. 4 class in the Big Ten, trailing only USC, Oregon and Ohio State. The Buckeyes sit one spot ahead of the Wolverines in the national rankings at No. 9. With fewer than three months until signing day, U-M has a class score of 91.598. That trails Ohio State by 0.1. 

If that score stands, it would be a 0.99 drop from the 2025 cycle when Michigan signed the No. 6 class in the country that ranked third in the Big Ten. 

The Wolverines head into the home stretch of the cycle with 14 commits ranked with four or five stars. That’s a blue-chip ratio of 61 percent. Michigan does not hold an in-state pledge and, if that remains true, that would be the first cycle without a local signee since at least 2001. The average distance from Ann Arbor for a U-M commit is 895.4 miles. 

Moving forward, Michigan will continue to pursue an elite cornerback flip, a third offensive line pledge and at least one more linebacker. 

Michigan now has 23 commits in its 2026 recruiting class — Hiter, five-star Washington (D.C.) Gonzaga EDGE Carter Meadows, Top 100 Honolulu (Hawaii) Kamehameha offensive tackle Malakai Lee, Top 100 St. Louis (Mo.) DeSmet defensive lineman Titan Davis, Top 100 Billings (Mont.) West tight end Matt Ludwig, Top 100 Newberry Park (Calif.) High quarterback Brady Smigiel, On300 Needham (Mass.) St. Sebastian’s offensive lineman Marky Walbridge, On300 Chesapeake (Va.) Oscar Smith wide receiver Travis Johnson, On300 Irmo (S.C.) Dutch Fork EDGE Julian Walker, On300 Chicago (Ill.) Simeon EDGE McHale Blade, four-star Carrollton (Ga.) High defensive back Dorian Barney, four-star Richmond (Va.) Hermitage defensive back Andre Clarke, four-star Mansfield (Texas) High wide receiver Zion Robinson, three-star Cartersville (Ga.) Cass offensive lineman Bear McWhorter, three-star Washington (D.C.) St. John’s EDGE Tariq Boney, three-star Denver (Colo.) Mullen tight end Mason Bonner, three-star Liberty Hill (Texas) High defensive lineman Alister Vallejo, three-star Dallas (Texas) Parish Episcopal wide receiver Jaylen Pile, three-star Richmond (Va.) Huguenot linebacker Markel Dabney, three-star Hinsdale (Ill.) Central kicker Micah Drescher, Columbus (Ohio) St. Francis DeSales running back Jonathan Brown and Phoenix (Ariz.) O’Connor long snapper Colton Dermer.