Where Notre Dame stands in 2023 class rankings after four new commitments
Notre Dame went on a run of five new commitments over a six-day span from June 29 to July 4, and four of those prospects are in the 2023 class.
On the morning of June 30 before Rock Island (Ill.) Alleman’s Charles Jagusah, the No. 41 overall recruit and No. 4 offensive tackle per the 2023 On3 Consensus, made his commitment to Notre Dame, the Irish had the No. 3 class nationally per the 2023 On3 Consensus Football Team Recruiting Rankings, very slightly trailing Texas. Ohio State, which had just completed its own impressive run of commitments, held the No. 1 spot.
Houston The Kinkaid School’s Micah Bell, the No. 118 prospect and No. 11 cornerback in America, made his commitment Friday. Folsom (Calif.) High’s Rico Flores Jr., who is listed as No. 171 player and No. 28 wide receiver nationally, picked the Irish on Sunday. And on Independence Day, Notre Dame added a pledge from St. Louis De Smet’s Christian Gray, the nation’s No. 78 recruit and No. 7 cornerback.
Before these four commitments, Notre Dame’s class score was 92.487. After the new commitments, it’s at 92.922 — good for the No. 1 overall spot in the country. Ohio State is just behind the Irish at 92.681, and Texas sits at 91.977.
Notre Dame is up to 19 commitments in its 2023 class with one five-star prospect (EDGE Keon Keeley) and 15 four-star prospects. Six of the Irish’s commitments rank inside the top-100 of the On3 Consensus rankings.
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Below is a look at the top seven schools according to the 2023 On3 Consensus Football Team Recruiting Rankings, as of Tuesday morning.
Understanding On3’s team rankings system
The On3 Consensus Team Recruiting Ranking is the only ranking that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies: On3, 247Sports, Rivals and ESPN. It equally weighs the four media companies at 25 percent.
Instead of a total points system like at Rivals, the On3 Consensus ranking uses a score average of the player rankings, and it 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 13. This means that of Notre Dame’s 19 commitments, only the 13 highest-ranked players are used for the rankings score.
To further explain that point: Notre Dame’s 19 commits have an average rating of 91.57, but that is not the score used in the ranking. With Notre Dame’s top 13 commits only being used in the On3 Consensus Team Ranking, and the Irish’s score with that group is 92.922 — and 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 weigh a team’s top three or four highest rated commits and is a more accurate representation of an entire class.
