Looking back at the month of June, here are the five biggest college football recruiting winners from the past month.
Another month of college football recruiting is in the books. The month of July has already started with fireworks, including a key five-star commitment on Sunday from Justin Scott to the Ohio State Buckeyes.
However, we still wanted to go back at look at our monthly college football recruiting winners for the month of June. We are a little behind, but it’s been a holiday weekend (sort of), so hopefully you’ll excuse us being a couple of days tardy with this post.
At any rate, here are the five biggest college football recruiting winners from the month of June.
5. Nebraska football
Matt Rhule and the Cornhuskers did some serious work on the recruiting trail for the month of June, landing a total of 15 commitments.
However, it wasn’t just the sheer number of commitments that got Nebraska football on this list. The Huskers landed their top overall prospect left on the board in Carter Nelson. The 78th-ranked prospect in the 2024 class via the 247 Sports composite rankings, was trending to Georgia at one time. Notre Dame was right there too.
But Rhule was able to keep the elite tight end home, which was a huge recruiting win. Nebraska football also landed Dae’vonn Hall (4-star WR), and Isaiah McMorris (3-star WR), flipped an Ole Miss trend with three-star RB Kewan Lacy, and also landed four-star Mario Buford.
Nebraska football started the month outside the top 30 and is now 14th overall in the 2024 college football recruiting class according to the 247 Sports team rankings.
4. Texas
It was a helluva month for the Texas Longhorns too in the 2024 college football recruiting class as Steve Sarkisian’s team landed six commitments. However, five of them were four-star prospects which included Jerrick Gibson the top-ranked player in the class at 39th overall.
Texas still has work to do in the 2024 class, but also just got projected to land a five-star wide receiver in Ryan Wingo.
But the reason they made our list of college football recruiting winners for the month of June was that it really served as a jumpstart.
Texas had just two verbal commitments prior to June. Now, five of the top six commitments on the board are from that month, which featured five blue-chippers. Six of the top nine total were landed in June and each of Texas’ top nine commitments were landed in June or on July 1st.
The Longhorns are ranked 32nd right now in the 2024 college football recruiting team rankings, but that number will improve before it’s all over.
3. Florida
We talked about Florida football a couple of weeks ago when they were able to steal away Aaron Chiles from Michigan, but in all the Gators got six blue-chip commitments in the month of June.
Florida football picked up 10 commitments total in the month of June, but four of those ranked in the top 200 overall via the 247 Sports composite rankings, and two were in the top 100.
Chiles was a huge get. Michigan football was the projected leader when Chiles went to Florida football for his official visit and by the end of the weekend, the top-100 linebacker was committed.
Chiles is ranked 77th overall, but Jamonta Waller is ranked No. 72 overall. Florida football landed the top-100 EDGE this month too and with all of the movement, Billy Napier’s team moved into the top five of the 2024 college football recruiting team rankings.
With a five-star quarterback included, this has the look of a truly elite class and one that might even hang in the top five when the 2024 class is signed.
2. USC
Just like Texas, USC football got off to a bit of a slow start in the 2024 college football recruiting class. Yet, sometimes that just has to do with the caliber of recruits you’re after.
USC football clearly showed this month that it’s a force in college football recruiting like it hasn’t been since the days of Pete Carroll.
After signing an elite recruiting class in 2023, Lincoln Riley is well on his way to doing the same in the 2024 class. The Trojans were nearly on par with Nebraska football in terms of total commitments from June with 13.
However, what has USC football so high on this list is the fact that 10 of those 13 are ranked as four-star recruits according to the 247 Sports composite rankings. USC landed as many top-100 commitments this month as Michigan has in its entire 2024 class and the Wolverines are ranked fourth overall right now.
USC got top-100 wideout Ryan Pellum on the board in June, as well as top-100 corners Marcelles Williams and Dakoda Fields. The idea was to put a fence around Southern California in terms of recruiting and Riley has done that.
All four top-100 commitments are from California. Yet, USC football is recruiting nationally too and as we said, it’s like the Pete Carroll days which is a scary thought for everyone else.
1. Clemson football
College football fans and pundits have been trying to kick dirt on the grave of the Clemson football team for the past two seasons.
But the Tigers are alive and well. As much as people want to forget it, they are the defending ACC champions. Clemson football also landed two five-star commitments in the 2024 college football recruiting class in June, which is why the Tigers are our biggest winner for the month.
Landing Sammy Brown, an elite linebacker was huge. He’ll be the centerpiece of the Tigers’ defense and basically every college football powerhouse wanted him.
Not only that, Clemson football was able to land five-star wideout Bryant Westco. Not only did the Tigers get two five-stars, but they also added five total commitments ranked in the top 180.
TJ Moore is a stellar wideout ranked 151 overall. Darien Mayo is ranked 180th as an EDGE and Clemson football beat out Michigan and Ohio State for his commitment. They also got a top-15 safety in Ricardo Jones.
It was an impressive month and a reminder that Dabo Swinney’s program isn’t going anywhere as a college football recruiting power, at least not anytime soon.