Where Notre Dame’s 2024 class stands in the On3 Industry Team Recruiting Rankings

Notre Dame added a new pledge Wednesday, coming from Roswell (Ga.) High offensive lineman Anthonie Knapp, giving the Irish nine commitments thus far in its 2024 class.

Nine verbals is tied for third most for schools that currently rank inside the top 10 of the 2024 On3 Industry Team Recruiting Rankings. Georgia and LSU both have 11 commitments, and the Irish and Michigan both have nine.

Notre Dame’s class — which consists of five four-star prospects and four three-star players — currently ranks No. 6 according in the 2024 rankings. Ahead of them is Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Ohio State and Tennessee respectively. The Volunteers moved ahead of the Irish Wednesday by adding a quarterback pledge from Jake Merklinger.

Florida State, South Carolina, Michigan, and LSU are behind the Irish to round out the top 10, respectively.

Notre Dame is the only school in the top 10 without an in-state commitment. The average distance from the prospect’s hometown to Notre Dame is 441.6 miles, which is the third-highest number in the top 10 (Georgia 446.2, Alabama 535.1).

The Irish have two commitments ranked inside the top-50 of the On3 Industry Ranking’s national list. Those players are Glen Ellyn (Ill.) Glenbard South’s Cam Williams, the No. 31 recruit and No. 7 wide receiver nationally, and Saline (Mich.) High’s CJ Carr, the No. 47 prospect and No. 5 signal-caller in the land.

Below is a look at the top 10 schools according to the  2024 On3 Industry Team Recruiting Rankings, as of Wednesday afternoon.

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Understanding On3’s team rankings system

If Notre Dame has nine commitments, and Alabama only has four, how do the Crimson Tide rank four spots ahead of the Irish? Let’s get into it.

The On3 Industry Team Recruiting Ranking utilizes all four major recruiting media companies: On3, 247Sports, Rivals.com and ESPN.

Instead of a total points system like at Rivals, the On3 Industry Team Ranking uses a score average of the player rankings, which solves the problem of varying class sizes during the recruiting cycle. It compiles the highest-rated commits for each team up to a total based on a rolling average of current total commitments among Power Five schools.

The current average number of commits used in the rankings score is four. This means that of Notre Dame’s nine commitments, only the four highest-ranked players are used for the rankings score.

To further explain that point: Notre Dame’s nine commits have an average recruit rating of 90.67, but that is not the score used in the team ranking. Notre Dame’s top four commits are only being used in the On3 Industry Team Ranking, and the Irish’s score with that group is 93.061 — this is the number used for the class ranking, as seen in the image above.

With this model, there are no bonus points for having more commitments than other teams, and only small deductions occur when a team has fewer commitments than the rolling average. Unlike distribution (bell) curves, this model doesn’t disproportionately weight a team’s top three or four highest-rated commits and is a more accurate representation of an entire class.