As much as we all love to tout the merits of toughness, discipline, effort, pride and grit when it comes to winning football games, the truth is that in major college football, you probably aren’t going to win much unless you’re recruiting your ass off. Enter Jimbo Fisher.
Bud Elliott (formerly of SB Nation, now with 247 Sports) postulates that in order to win a national championship, a team must have signed at least as many four- and five-star recruits as they have three-star and below recruits. This prerequisite to preeminence is known as “The Blue Chip Ratio.