More goes into on-field success than recruiting. You still have to develop talent. You still have to gameplan and scheme for opponents. Home field advantage still matters. Momentum still matters. And, yes, sometimes a team gets lucky or a bounce and call go their way. Sometimes, a team becomes that team of destiny and defies the odds.
But, recruiting well helps.
There’s a reason that when it comes to the national championship, it’s always the usual suspects who make the College Football Playoff (you know, besides the active efforts to keep the Group of 5 on the outside looking in).