On Wednesday, every media outlet that covers recruiting in college football, ESPN.com included, attempted to rank the incoming recruiting classes across the country. Much like preseason polls, there is a lot of guesswork and projecting involved, which means sometimes they can be accurate and other times they can be, well, not even close.
In 2014, ESPN ranked the Pac-12 recruiting classes like this: 1. USC (No. 14 overall); 2. Stanford (15); 3. Arizona State (21); 4. Arizona (23); 5. UCLA (26); 6. Oregon (27); 7. Washington (45); 8. Cal (46); 9. Washington State (61); 10. Utah (64); 11.