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It's hard to shake the feeling that the Pac-12 is playing catch-up in recruiting

National signing day in 2016 featured click-bait hype across this great land -- cue up Ric Flair braggadocio speechifying voice -- with dabbing, trash-talking, airplane-jumping, Texas-surging, commitment-flipping, wheeling and dealing and -- woo! -- Florida State signed the nation's No. 1 class, according to ESPN RecruitingNation.

Now cue up Zach Galifianakis between his ferns: The Pac-12 did not have a top-10 class for the fourth time in the last five years.

That's not a unified world view, as recruiting speaks in many voices. Scout.com ranked UCLA's strong late charge good enough for the nation's No.