Recruiting top-end talent directly correlates to winning championships in the modern era of college football. It’s not a coincidence Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State and Oklahoma routinely lead the recruiting rankings and have then filled 20 of the 28 available College Football Playoff spots over the last seven years.
Michigan has been no slouch on the recruiting trail, however. Since Jim Harbaugh’s hiring in Dec. 2014, he has brought in seven five-stars and countless four-stars. For the sake of simplicity, we only used the recruiting rankings from 247Sports to find the top 25 highest-rated recruits (not necessarily the best, but the highest-rated) that have come to Ann Arbor during the Harbaugh era.