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Reverse Engineering a Champion: Five Traits That the Last 10 College Football Kings Have Shared — And What That Tells Us About This Year’s Favorites

1. Elite Recruiting

Here are the top dozen recruiting teams over the past four years (2012-15) according to 247Sports’s composite rating:

All 13 national champions since 2002 are represented in that group; in fact, the only teams from outside of the group that have played for a championship in the past decade are Oklahoma (2008) and Oregon (2010, 2014), both of which narrowly missed the cut.[SUP]5[/SUP] It may seem like an obvious point to make — like, wow, who could have guessed that the teams that have assembled the deepest talent base over a number of years are the teams that tend to win big? — but for all the devoted acolytes of blue-collar intangibles out there who forever insist that shiny recruiting stars don’t mean anything compared to old-fashioned grit, it still bears repeating: Yeah, they do. The most fundamental criterion for building a serious contender is depth of talent, and the recruiting sites, flawed as they may be, remain the best tools we have to measure that.
So it shouldn’t come as any surprise that, of the 15 teams set to open the season with 35-to-1 or better odds of claiming the title, nine also rank among 247’s top 12 recruiting powers over the past four years. The only outfits with a realistic title shot that will have to significantly outplay their recruiting rankings to see it through are Oregon, Michigan State, Clemson, and the Big 12 triumvirate of Baylor, TCU, and Oklahoma.[SUP]6[/SUP]Recent trends notwithstanding, it’s hard to think of the Sooners, Ducks, or Tigers as underdogs, talentwise. But if the Spartans, Bears, or Horned Frogs wind up going all the way, they’ll be the first exceptions to this rule.

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