Ohio State with the most star power. No reason they shouldn't win it all. Unless Ryan Day does Ryan Day stuff. 
How the final 4 stack up talent wise
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Right there with tOSU, that game in C-Bus showed us that!
Some think we are close
Maybe as close as next year
I’m curious what the numbers look like
With all the N coming portal and new class that might be a tough one to figure. 3 5 star and many the rest 3- and 4-star guys.
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In the portal rankings I noticed our new 5* ranks barely ahead of the walk-on at his position who left?
Next year with the portal additions we will have three 5*'s on our roster. I can say with certainty in the modern recruiting era we have never had that
Raiola
Prichett
Nwaneri
I believe Carter Nelson was a 5^ in a place or two as well
LOL we are a long ways from these teams. We might be close to winning 8 games, we might even be close to a Boise level of athleticism, but we are nowhere close to playing at the level of these 4 teams.
I think it's completely useless to compare star power when we have seen results on the field all year long. Ohio State is the favorite for sure. Though I think Texas is just behind them in terms of raw talent. And then Notre Dame and Penn State are just two hard-nosed and well-disciplined football teams with plenty of talent who can certainly win a championship if OSU or Texas don't bring their A-game.
That’s just one example of why the portal rankings are crap. Meaningless.
Best predictors of portal entry success:
How many gameday plays have they been on the field?
How well did they play when on the field?
What was the level of competition?
Last question is not as important as the first two.
So worthless to not even be mentioned: how many stars from HS. Future NFL talent does tend to come from 4 and 5 stars. But there are still a lot of flat-out college busts that were 4 and 5 stars, and they tend to be in the portal.
Someone did the numbers. Didn't fact check so take it FWIW
Now top Kong will spin it his way and narrative.
After looking at our 2025 numbers I say we will be in the CFBP next year!! LFG!! GBR!! 
Certainly appears talent won’t be what’s holding us back for longAfter looking at our 2025 numbers I say we will be in the CFBP next year!! LFG!! GBR!!
You need to recruit monsters to take down monsters. I'm so glad to see us finally trying to be like Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan instead of Iowa and Minnesota.
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If we land a competent ST coach like Ekeler that is worth at least 2 to 3 more wins right there. 7 wins to a 9 or 10 win season.
This would be interesting to see. If you base star rankings on high school ranks we now have at least 3 five stars on the roster.
Goes to show, “Coaching Matters” even with the “Jimmy and Joes.”
The transfer portal and recent recruiting classes definitely put our talent level closer to where it needs to be. Hopefully we see the play on the field follow next year.
When Rhule is all done Penn State is what this team should look like. Only thing is our Edge recruiting because Penn State has NFL Edge Players and I mean top 7 pick players.
An even more telling stat than stars is the estimated amount of NFL players on each Team. Between OSU and Texas, there will be 21 future NFL players on the field. Stars may translate to some of that, but development is a big contributor also.
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