MIAMI, FLORIDA - NOVEMBER 09: (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images)
Bud Elliott of 247Sports.Com rates a college football playoff contender as a program that has at least 50 percent of their roster as blue-chip players defined as four and five-star recruits. The Miami football roster is right around that number.
In an article posted on Wednesday, Ben Kercheval of CBS Sports wrote about “Six college football teams with championship-caliber rosters that can return them to greatness.” The Miami football program has the model of 50 percent of a championship roster be made up of four and five-star players.