Florida football, Stanford, and Minnesota are all surging in the 2024 college football recruiting rankings thanks to spectacular hauls in June.
If you’re a follower of college football recruiting, surely you’ve taken notice of what Billy Napier and Florida football are doing.
Flat out, the Gators are on fire. They have surged to fifth overall in the 247 Sports team rankings for the 2024 college football recruiting class thanks to a number of recruiting wins over the weekend.
The most surprising was four-star Aaron Chiles. He was viewed as a Michigan lean going into his official visit and instead became Florida football’s fifth top-100 commitment of the 2024 class.
Chiles committed on Saturday and was one of four blue-chip commitments for Florida football on that day alone. Amir Jackson (ATH, 108 overall), Amaris Williams (DL, 186 overall), and Nasir Johnson (DL, 250 overall) also committed.
It was an impressive haul but landing Chiles was particularly impressive. For Billy Napier, this couldn’t have come at a better time.
In all, the Gators have eight commitments in the month of June after Florida landed Michai Boireua and Marcus Mascoll, a three-star defensive lineman and a three-star offensive lineman, respectively, each joined the 2024 class with commitments on Monday.
A strong recruiting class isn’t going to relieve all of the pressure on Napier if Florida football struggles in 2023. However, it could help fans have a little more patience, especially with five-star quarterback DJ Lagaway also coming in 2024.
Of course, a poor season could put all these recruiting wins in jeopardy. But right now, Florida football fans should bask in the glow of some big recruiting victories.
Stanford football
Troy Taylor had a massive rebuilding job ahead of him when he took over at Stanford and so far, things are off to a really good start, at least on the recruiting trail.
Believe it or not, Stanford has the ninth-ranked college football recruiting class in 2024. That’s not likely going to stay ranked as high as signing day gets closer, but it’s still impressive.
Stanford football has as much momentum as any college football recruiting class right now and that continued over the weekend as Elijah Brown, the top uncommitted quarterback left in the 2024 college football recruiting class committed to the Cardinal.
Brown is ranked 76th overall in the 247 Sports composite rankings. Stanford football has a total of 18 commitments this month, which is pretty wild but in the past week, the Cardinal landed three blue-chippers as Dylan Stephenson, a 6-foot-4, 225-pound EDGE from Miami, Florida also committed along with Naki Tuakoi.
Mississippi running back Chris Davis also pledged on Sunday. He’s ranked 476th overall and for Stanford football to go into SEC country and land a talented running back shows you how well Taylor is recruiting right now.
Minnesota football
Another team that’s gone under the radar in the 2024 college football recruiting class is Minnesota football, which is also ranked in the top 10 right now.
Like Stanford, Minnesota has a bunch of commitments already with 21 total. Eight of them have pledged his month to P.J. Fleck and the Gophers.
This includes some of the top recruits in the Minnesota football class currently committed and one of those is offensive lineman Nathan Roy. He’s ranked 174th overall and just committed on Saturday.
Roy is the only four-star recruit committed to Minnesota right now but the Gophers have 16 commitments ranked in the top 1,000. That’s really solid for Minnesota football.
Fleck has figured out his formula in Minneapolis. It’s not going to have the Gophers leading the blue-chip ratio anytime soon, but after three straight top-50 classes, a top-25 class might even be possible for the Gophers, even though there’s a long way to go.