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Alabama Pulls in No. 1 Recruiting Class on National Signing Day 2021

Few will soon forget what the first day of the 2021 college football Early Signing Period included.

The No. 1 player in America picked an FCS program after being committed to Florida State for well over one year, two dozen flips went down and the proverbial rich got richer along the way.

As the early evening dust settles, though, a familiar name and face tops the list of class hauls to close out the de facto National Signing Day -- it's Alabama.

But it was very close.

Texas A&M and Jimbo Fisher, who have been the hottest program on the trail since upsetting the Crimson Tide on the field in late October, made every commitment count and could be on their way to the top spot at the period continues through Friday.