Notre Dame moves past Texas in 2023 On3 Consensus Team Recruiting Rankings
After months of Notre Dame and USC jockeying for position at the top of the 2023 On3 Consensus Football Team Recruiting Rankings, Ohio State and Texas passed both programs with hot streaks of commitments. Texas picked up a pledge from the No. 1 player nationally in quarterback Arch Manning, while Ohio State added multiple five-star receiver prospects.
Going into Thursday, Ohio State held the No. 1 spot in the rankings, followed by Texas and Notre Dame, respectively. But after head coach Marcus Freeman and the Fighting Irish added a pledge from Rock Island (Ill.) Alleman’s Charles Jagusah, the No. 41 overall player and No. 4 offensive tackle per the On3 Consensus, Notre Dame leapfrogged Texas for the No. 2 position.
Notre Dame has 16 commitments in its 2023 class, with 12 of them ranking as four-star players per the On3 Consensus ranking and one five-star prospect — EDGE Keon Keeley from Tampa (Fla.) Berkeley Prep.
On3’s own rankings list Jagusah as a five-star prospect, and the No. 1 offensive tackle and No. 7 overall player nationally. However, the On3 Consensus, a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies, has Jagusah as the No. 4 offensive tackle and No. 41 overall player in the land.
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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 Thursday 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 12. This means that of Notre Dame’s 16 commitments, only the 12 highest-ranked players are used for the rankings score.
To further explain that point: Notre Dame’s 16 commits have an average rating of 91.45, but that is not the score used in the ranking. With Notre Dame’s top 12 commits only being used in the On3 Consensus Team Ranking, and the Irish’s score with that group is 92.692 — 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.
READ: On3 five-star offensive tackle Charles Jagusah commits to Notre Dame football
