As the Georgia celebration continued in Indianapolis late Monday night following the College Football Playoff title game, the final AP Top 25 was released....
While three teams from the conference finished inside the AP’s top 10, the college football elites still seem miles ahead.
The problem for the Big 12 — and for other conferences not named the SEC — is how to claim the only hardware that matters, the national championship trophy. From 2011 through this year and Texas A&M’s recruiting breakthrough, either Alabama or Georgia had topped the 247Sports composite recruiting ranking. The Bulldogs had the top classes in 2018 and 2020 and the results were on display Monday.
The conference of Mayfield and Mahomes and Murray and video game scores had just two quarterbacks ranked among the top 25 in passer rating this season — OU’s Caleb Williams and TCU’s Max Duggan. And Williams is already headed to the transfer portal, perhaps to join former coach Lincoln Riley at USC.