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Win Signing Day, win the title: 11 contenders for next season

If your school hasn’t had a top-six recruiting class in the last three years, odds are it won’t win the 2016 national championship.

Every national champion going back to Florida in 2006 had at least one top-six recruiting class in the three signing periods before winning the national title.

In fact, seven of the last eight champions had at least two top-six classes in the three-year span leading to the title, and each of the last eight champions had a top-four class within two years of winning the title.