Notre Dame shoots into the top 10 in 2024 Industry Team Recruiting Rankings
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish’s 2024 class entered Tuesday with the nation’s No. 14 class according to the 2024 Industry Ranking Football Team Recruiting Rankings. By the end of the day, it catapulted into the top 10.
West Roxbury (Mass.) Catholic Memorial’s Guerby Lambert, the nation’s No. 54 overall player and No. 4 offensive tackle according to the 2024 On3 Industry Ranking, announced his long-awaited pledge to Notre Dame over Boston College, Harvard and Ohio State. Lambert also held offers from the likes of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Florida State, LSU, Michigan and many others.
Lambert’s commitment pushed Notre Dame from No. 14 to No. 8 in the team rankings. While it was and still is very tight in the 8-14 range of the team rankings (only .323 separates Notre Dame and No. 14 Auburn), this is a nice reminder for Irish fans just how good this recruiting class is for the Irish.
If Notre Dame’s current No. 8 position holds on signing day, it would mark three straight classes inside the top-10 of the team rankings, which the Irish have not done since 2006-08.
Georgia, Ohio State, Florida, Alabama, Texas A&M, Florida State and Tennessee are ahead of Notre Dame in the team rankings, respectively. LSU and Oklahoma are on the Irish heels to round out the top 10.
Notre Dame has 23 commitments; 14 of them rank as four-star players and the other nine are three-star prospects per the On3 Industry Ranking.
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. 37 recruit and No. 10 wide receiver nationally, and Saline (Mich.) High’s CJ Carr, the No. 50 prospect and No. 6 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 morning.
Understanding On3’s team rankings system
The On3 Industry Team Recruiting Ranking utilizes all four major recruiting media companies: On3, 247Sports, Rivals 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 16. This means that of Notre Dame’s 23 commitments, only the 16 highest-ranked players are used for the rankings score.
To further explain that point: Notre Dame’s 23 commits have an average recruit rating of 90.39, but that is not the score used in the team ranking. Notre Dame’s top 16 commits are only being used in the On3 Industry Team Ranking, and the Irish’s score with that group is 91.452 — 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.
