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Top 5 Schools Who Underachieve With Great Recruiting Classes

By Caleb Calhoun

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Nov 15, 2014; Knoxville, TN, USA; General view of Neyland Stadium during the first half of the game between the Tennessee Volunteers and the Kentucky Wildcats. Mandatory Credit: Randy Sartin-USA TODAY Sports

During the week of National Signing Day, we love to celebrate college football schools who have great recruiting classes and also celebrate schools who win without great recruiting classes.

But at the same time, there are plenty of schools who consistently have massively underachieving recruiting classes, and that has been more prevalent during the Rivals era. Certain schools could be in the Top 10 in recruiting every year, but they will never meet the expectations that come with it.

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    • Some of these schools consistently have the biggest flops in recruiting history, while others have been set back by a few bad eggs.

    Either way, if you are a fan of one of these schools, you likely know all too well the frustration of underachieving recruiting classes. And what can be the worst is that many of these schools still produce NFL talent and often have overachievers in their bad recruiting classes.

    Whatever the reason, here are the Top 5 schools who have consistently underachieved with great recruiting classes since 2000 and prove that this is not a scientific method.

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