As the ink dries on letters of intent on National Signing Day, college football recruiting gurus are naming winners and losers. Most have already moved on to the next crop of high school studs.
Who needs all that speculation when you can look back in hindsight at how the classes performed, though?
Here are the top 10 college football recruiting classes from 2005-18.
Note: Team ranks referenced for that year come from 247 Sports Composite
1. 2008 Alabama
Rank: 3rd, 33 signees
Key Players: Mark Barron, Julio Jones, Terrence Cody, Marcell Dareus, Dont'a Hightower, Mark Ingram, Barrett Jones, Courtney Upshaw, Damion Square, Michael Williams, Robert Lester, Brad Smelley
It really all started for Nick Saban and Bama with the 2008 recruiting class.