Top 5 College Football Schools Who Win Without Great Recruiting Classes

Jan 1, 2015; Tampa, FL, USA; Wisconsin Badgers head coach Barry Alvarez reacts as gatorade gets dumped on him after they beat the Auburn Tigers in the 2015 Outback Bowl at Raymond James Stadium. Wisconsin Badgers defeated the Auburn Tigers 34-31 in overtime. Mandatory Credit: Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports

4. Wisconsin Badgers

As the architect of the Wisconsin Badgers style of football, Barry Alvarez has kept a consistent program going in Madison working as the athletic director now. When coaches depart, he finds the perfect replacements, and Wisconsin’s system never changes.

With hardly any Top 25 classes, the Badgers load up on great offensive linemen, find one or two great running backs, and rely on a power running game to tear you to shreds. This has been a common theme for the Badgers for more than 25 years, and it has not changed from Alvarez to Bret Bielema to Gary Andersen, and it will not change with Paul Chryst either.

All the Badgers have to make sure they ever have is a good enough quarterback to manage the power running offense, and that will get them conference championships, even when the Big Ten gets loaded again.

This is a football program you can always count on to be relevant, and like Oregon but in the midwest and with a completely different style, the Badgers could easily sneak through at one point and win a national championship, even without recruiting.

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