Here's the deal, Oregon fans have been touting a "monster" recruiting class all year on this board. The truth is, it was never a top-5 class as they tried to make everyone believe. It was very early in the recruiting process and they never had the type of athletes that top-5 classes have. To be a top-5 class you have to have a high ratio of 4 and 5-star players to 3-star players. Oregon never had that, in fact they didn't have any 5-star players like the Alabama's and USC's do. The only reason it looked good early on was the Florida players that Taggart had already been recruiting at USF, AND the simple fact that they were recruiting so many, 30 at one point.
So, they are trying to convince us that they are out-recruiting UW and are about to break back into the elite status of college football., something they never really had. "247 Sports", a site they are constantly referencing as the most accurate college football recruiting site has something they call "College Football Team Talent Composite." This is an evaluation of each team's talent based upon the talent level of their recruits. In each of the last two years Oregon has had a better team talent composite than UW. In these two years UW has beat Oregon by scores of 70-21 and 38-3.
Enough said.
https://247sports.com/Season/2017-Footb ... tComposite