The polls have been voted on, and Oklahoma State landed at 37th in the final 2018 AP Poll, which, wouldn’t you know it, is about what you would have expected based on their recruiting average over the past five years.
I took everyone who received votes in the final 2018 AP Poll and looked at their five-year average recruiting rankings to see if they finished better, worse or about the same as expected. For example: Alabama’s five-year average finish in the 247 Sports recruiting rankings was 2.2. This was the lowest number of all teams so they were the No.