Top 5 Schools Who Underachieve With Great Recruiting Classes

Nov 29, 2014; Columbus, OH, USA; Michigan Wolverines head coach Brady Hoke watches as his team plays the Ohio State Buckeyes at Ohio Stadium. Ohio State won the game 42-28. Mandatory Credit: Greg Bartram-USA TODAY Sports

4. Michigan Wolverines

Up until 2014, the Michigan Wolverines had six Top 10 classes in the Rivals era and never had a class outside of the Top 20. Now, Brady Hoke skews this a bit with two straight Top 10 classes and a Top 5 class and his level of underachieving, but the fact remains that the Michigan Wolverines have seriously underachieved with those numbers.

There is actually an argument to put Oklahoma in this spot as well, but Oklahoma has won more conference championships consistently. Dating back to the Lloyd Carr days, Michigan has underachieved consistently.

After back to back Big Ten titles in 2003 and 2004, Michigan has been in a drought, not winning one since. They came close, starting 11-0 in 2006 before losing to Ohio State and then USC in the Rose Bowl, and they could have won it in 2007 as well, but that would have been a joke considering they started the year 0-2 and lost to Appalachian State that year.

The early Rich Rodriguez struggles and downward slide under Hoke followed that, so the Wolverines get to be on this list as major underachievers.

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