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When it comes to recruiting, Nick Saban has everybody playing for second place.
See that stubborn red line below that refuses to squiggle like all the other squiggly lines? That’s Alabama.
In each of the last six recruiting cycles, Alabama has signed the top-ranked class, according to the 247Sports Composite team rankings. This chart visualizes the class ranking for every team that has signed a Top 5 recruiting class in any of the last six years — 13 teams in all. None among the baker’s dozen has fallen out of the Top 15 in any of these five years. But nobody has been able to keep the Crimson Tide from the top, either.