The formalising process for recruits known as signing day starting wednesday was followed by the early signing period for college football recruits for the joint cyle of 2025. As new recruit classes are being brought in students have already begun participation in conference championships followed by the selection for the college football playoffs as well as the opening of the transfer portal on 9 December 2025. 

It is indisputable that new athletes will always come from the high school ranks despite these changes in the recruiting landscape, and it just so happened that many of the country’s top prospects were in the forefront of the action this past Wednesday.

There is a class and a cycle I tend to observe all year round, and that is the reason why I’ve been keen to year after year, track my scouting position for 247Sports. The teams do have losses, and these days their record does seem to show it. Either way, we have classified teams as winning and losing for today depending on results of today’s events or the last few weeks. Rankings of teams are as they were at 5 PM ET on Wednesday.

National Signing Day 2024 Winners

Team Name- Texas

Class rank No. 1

Do not hold your breath waiting for Texas to slide down as it doesn’t seem possible. The Longhorns and Steve Sarkisian are presently positioned to finalize what would be the highest-ranked recruiting class of the program since 2012, having recently reached the highest rank of 1 with the assistance of a Wednesday influx.  

On Tuesday, Texas went to the spatula and managed to reel in four-star cornerback Kade Phillips back into the fold and less than a day later signed utilityman Michael Terry III. Terry – who is something of a younger version of former UT superstar Ja’Tavion Sanders – became the third five-star from Texas joined the class.

Team Name- Oregon

Class rank No. 4

The Ducks made the most noise among all idle players during yesterday, stealing away five star prospect Na’eem Offord a cornerback committed to Ohio State and four star recruit quarterback Jaron Keawe Sagapolutele and also maintained the signing of five star rated wide receiver Dallas Wilson who had had interests from both Florida and Miami late in the game. They were able to get Tobi Haastrup who can be classified as a boom or bust pass rusher. Oregon woke up with pound-for-pound one of the nation’s strongest recruiting classes and did nothing but added to it. 

Team Name- Texas A&M

Class rank No. 8

At the last minute, Texas A&M completed its top 10-ranked class by announcing the signing of five-star wide receiver Jerome Myles and five-star offensive tackle Lamont Rogers. 

As they stand, the Aggies have 12 players within the Top247 that have signed with them which is quite impressive, however, the real depth of the class can be found a little deeper in the ranking of commits. With that said, Elko and his staff made it a point to seek out and develop low tier recruits that could provide depth as well as offer them a variety of skills. Mission accomplished.

Team Name- Florida

Class rank No. 10

The DJ Lagway effect is a fact, and the example of Florida’s recruiting class jumping from outside the top 50 of the rankings to the edge of the top 10 in a matter of weeks speaks for itself – momentum is important for talent acquisition. 

No, Billy Napier & Co. did not manage to grab everyone, but such a day should not be classified as defeat either. Instead, recall that in the same period last year, the Gators fell in the recruiting rankings, and people lost hope for Napier. It is Lagway’s performance at the end of the regular season that relieves the pressure.

Team Name- Georgia Tech

Class rank No. 18

What a year it turned out to be for Brent Key: he managed to beat Florida State in Week 0 and was inches away from sending Georgia packing in an epic eight-overtime brawl at the end of the regular season. On Wednesday, not only did Key put together what is projected to be the most highly-ranked class in program history, he did it while competing with the biggest names in the sport. 

After defeating both the Ohio State and Tennessee in the summer months for five-star offensive tackle Josh Petty, the Yellow jackets sealed the deal with prized four-star athlete Dalen Penson after he rebuffed a last minute offer from USC. This came a week after he transferred four-star safety Tae Harris from Clemson, who had just been signed.

Team Name- South Carolina

Class rank No. 20

In the morning, the Gamecocks flipped Zavion Hardy, who is the 1st ranked Junior college player in the country, committing him to South Carolina from Mississippi State. After a bit, they teamed up against USC and Michigan and made off with a late-bloomer, Christian Ingram However, while both Hardy and Ingram will likely not make a Stewart-like impact in 2025, they do raise the already impressive South Carolina class by an additional peg.

South Carolina ended up signing 10 front-seven defenders altogether on Wednesday. With that, the Gamecocks, who have this season tripled the SEC’s second-best team with 40 sacks, should remain spicy on defense!

Team Name- Florida State

Class rank No. 22

There is no denying the credit FSU deserves for quite a remarkable performance from Mike Norvell who went on to win in the end. 

There were losses to contend with in the preceding months but Wednesday saw more gains as the seminoles managed to reverse the 4-star running back Kromah Ousmane from Georgia, 3-star wide receiver Jayvan Boggs from UCF and 3-star corner Shamar Anroux from Auburn. 

FSU’s class was in the 50s range in November but with Norvell’s efforts, the class made its way to a position at 22 which is quite impressive. There is every chance that the Noles hoist a top 25 position class which is quite a feat for a wretched 2-10 season.

National Signing Day 2024 Losers

Team Name- USC

Class rank No. 13

The figure states that California consistently fuels and produces around 21.4 picks in the NFL draft each and every year which makes it disheartening to find out that only 5 of the recruits signed by the USC class were from California itself.

For the better part of the season, trying to figure out what the Trojans were about to deploy was a challenge. Step one saw the Trojans making two offensive gains of defensive lineman Jahkeem Stewart as well as Defensive back Alex Graham who live thousands of miles away from USC. However, it can also be said that the list of decommits for USC is probably more impressive than the actual nominees signed.

Team Name- Oklahoma

Class rank No. 16

Things could have turned out to be worse for Oklahoma had 5-star offensive tackle Michael Fasusi decided to ditch the Sooners for the Texas program at the last moment, but alas that did not take place. Still, for Brent Venables, it was quite an uneventful Wednesday.

Oklahoma also lost the commitments of wide receivers Marcus Harris and Gracen Harris, who had been most active in the week heading to the signing period. The highest ranked receiver in the class, Cortez Mills, eventually decided to sign with Nebraska. While new offensive coordinator Ben Arbuckle was able to secure a transfer of three star quarterback Jett Niu on the same day ‘former’ 5 star signee Jackson Arnold transferred, who in the world will he be throwing to in 2025?

Team Name- Clemson

Class rank No. 26

If you have been with us till now, you know the story: Dabo Swinney doesn’t use the transfer portal. He will claim that veteran acquisitions are not necessary. Not when Clemson is a win away from qualifying for the first 12-team playoff, but the roster picture for the Tigers is starting to become very bleak. 

Clemson lang daar op woensdag met slechts 15 undertekenares-sygners in vision. Unless, of course, Swinney has a few Deion Sanders tricks up his sleeves, it appears to be reaching our for the Tigers, the worst finish since the inception of the 247sports ranking era and only the second time they finish a class outside the top 25. 

Sure, there are some future NFL draftees who will join Clemson but it has to be said that the Tigers lost five of their seven highest-ranked commits in the last stretch. Actually like this, the depth chart for clemson’s roster is going to take a huge hit, which is daft with the developments that we need to win a national championship, teams might have to win 17 games to get to the top.