National Signing Day 2018: SMU

The 2018 recruiting class has finally come to a close. The good news for SMU fans is the class does have some nice gems in here that may be able to have an effect as soon as this season. The disappointing news is the fact that they could have done better. Not really to any fault of SMU or Sonny Dykes, but the early signing period absolutely impacted this class that could have been so much better.

In the statistical department, SMU proved that they underachieved in recruiting. The class ranked 8th in the AAC and was ranked 89th overall. The talent was not necessarily bad, but signing only 18 total players will hurt a class ranking. Across Texas G5 schools, SMU did alright though. Houston (73)…