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Message: [QUOTE="Scooch, post: 42049, member: 628"] I went through a crude exercise in that over the summer, just cause I was curious. Basically in any given year about half the top 25 had a top 25 recruiting class 4 years prior. I'm sure if I tightened up the methodology it might have been even more correlated. There's always 2-3 non-BCS AQ teams that finish top 25 that never land top classes, but those teams also benefit from playing easier schedules. And of course there's always a handful of BCS teams that land in the top 25 that may have had classes in the 25-50 range, which I suspect would still mean being composed of mostly 3 and 4-star recruits. I'm sympathetic to the notion that stars are not the be-all end-all. And they are definitely not on an individual basis. But put 20-25 kids together in a class over a series of years and there's clearly a connection. [/QUOTE]