Clemson Commitment Demarre Kitt is the Best of the ACC’s Top Recruits in the Last Month
The 2013 college football season is still a couple months away, but with the 2014 recruiting season heating up, we’ve actually got things to keep track of. Like always, recruiting rankings mean absolutely nothing, especially when they’re compiled with nine months remaining in the recruiting period and no hard, binding letters signed yet. Still, it’s fun to see where teams stand, and if your school’s doing well, you get to give yourself a badge of pride for an afternoon (or whatever else you might do to get enjoyment out of this).
Below you’ll find a breakdown of ACC recruiting rankings from Rivals, 247Sports and Scout, as well as a breakdown of ACC players currently ranked in the ESPN 300.
ACC Football 2014 Recruiting Rankings (June 18)
Each service compiles rankings with a different scoring system, using the total number of points accumulated per school to decide their rank compared to all other classes. However, this also provides an unfair advantage to larger classes, emphasizing quantity over quality. With that in mind, we also included averages (except with 247, which won’t let us sort by average), to account for high-quality, smaller classes. For school with large classes right now, like Florida State, Boston College and Louisville, the overall rankings are an advantageous figure. But for schools with just a few recruits thus far, like Pittsburgh, Syracuse and Wake Forest, it hurts — which is where the averages come in. Also note that while Scout and Rivals use the standard “stars” system (1-5), 247Sports has an algorithm out of 100 that they explain on their site. Under “composite” below, you’ll find the average ranking score for each school (using both total score and average score), so we can get a much fuller picture on the quality of respective classes using a variety of methods.
| TEAM | Total Players | Scout (pts) | Scout (avg) | Rivals (pts) | Rivals (avg) | 247 (pts) | Composite |
| Clemson | 11 | 13 | 19 (3.25) | 9 | 4 (3.64) | 12 | 11.40 |
| Florida State | 15 | 9 | 20 (3.2) | 8 | 19 (3.38) | 5 | 12.20 |
| Miami | 12 | 15 | 26 (3) | 12 | 14 (3.45) | 13 | 16.00 |
| Louisville | 15 | 22 | 35 (2.93) | 15 | 52 (2.93) | 16 | 28.00 |
| Virginia | 7 | 26 | 22 (3.14) | 30 | 35 (3) | 35 | 29.60 |
| North Carolina | 14 | 21 | 37 (2.86) | 16 | 53 (2.93) | 21 | 29.60 |
| Virginia Tech | 10 | 29 | 51 (2.5) | 28 | 26 (3.25) | 26 | 32.00 |
| Boston College | 15 | 32 | 54 (2.45) | 19 | 57 (2.87) | 24 | 37.20 |
| NC State | 11 | 46 | 63 (2.27) | 29 | 54 (2.9) | 31 | 44.60 |
| Duke | 11 | 42 | 55 (2.45) | 31 | 68 (2.7) | 29 | 45.00 |
| Georgia Tech | 9 | 53 | 59 (2.33) | 32 | 55 (2.89) | 33 | 46.40 |
| Pittsburgh | 2 | 71 | 32 (3) | 83 | 46 (3) | 80 | 62.40 |
| Maryland | 5 | 63 | 64 (2.2) | 58 | 61 (2.8) | 69 | 63.00 |
| Syracuse | 4 | 73 | 68 (2) | 68 | 43 (3) | 75 | 65.40 |
| Wake Forest | 3 | 79 | 78 (1.67) | 86 | 79 (2.33) | 84 | 81.20 |
When checking out the ESPN 300 rankings, you can also see that the majority of the ACC’s top recruits went to the top-ranked schools. A look at the top 10 ACC recruits:
