Where Notre Dame stands in 2023 On3 Consensus rankings ahead of National Signing Day
Notre Dame hasn’t signed a top-five recruiting class since 2013 according to the On3 Consensus Football Team Recruiting Rankings. Is this finally the year where the Irish will reach that feat again?
Maybe.
The Fighting Irish currently have the No. 5 class in the country. Ahead of Notre Dame’s class is Alabama, Georgia, Miami and Ohio State, respectively. A week and a half ago, Miami wasn’t even in the top seven, but the Hurricanes have surged with several new commitments.
Notre Dame’s rankings “score” is 93.103, which should be good for the No. 5 or No. 6 spot nationally by the end of the day tomorrow, but that score will drop if Denton (Texas) Guyer five-star safety Peyton Bowen, who is the Irish’s highest-ranked recruit with an individual score of 98.10, flips to Oklahoma or Oregon. It’s too close to call where Bowen will end up signing as of the afternoon of National Signing Day eve, though.
Texas and LSU are on the heels of Notre Dame’s class ranking with a score of 93.03 and 93.02 points, respectively.
Below is a look at the top seven schools according to the 2023 On3 Consensus Football Team Recruiting Rankings, as of Tuesday afternoon.
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 19. This means that of Notre Dame’s 26 commitments, only the 19 highest-ranked players are used for the rankings score.
To further explain that point: Notre Dame’s 26 commits have an average recruit rating of 91.72, but that is not the score used in the team ranking. With Notre Dame’s top 19 commits only being used in the On3 Consensus Team Ranking, and the Irish’s score with that group is 93.103 — 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.
