There are so many ways to look at college football teams and programs. So many ways. There are no absolutes, no 100 percent correct answers and arguments other than “Bama is good and so is Clemson it seems” are pulverized on a monthly, if not weekly, basis.
Which is why all of this is so dang fun.
After looking at how the final 2018 AP Poll correlated to the last five years of recruiting for Oklahoma State and other teams, I decided to extend both recruiting rankings and team rankings (as determined by win-loss percentage) a few years.