National Signing Day winners & losers + Where will Jackson Arnold & other portal players land?
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 6 December 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Texas, Georgia, Alabama, Oregon, Ohio State, Michigan and many other programs exceled in this early signing period. David Ubben, Mitch Light and Manny Navarro breakdown National Signing Day winners, like LSU and Auburn, and losers, like Clemson, UCLA and more. Plus, Timeshare Salesman Manny has some destinations booked for Miller Moss, Jackson Arnold and other transfer portal entrants.
Rundown:
- National Signing Day; 2025 Class rankings (2:00)
- Most impactful flips, late signings (3:00)
- Texas, Alabama or Georgia: Which had the best NSD? (8:00)
- Oregon beating Ohio State in recruiting; what it means for the Big Ten hierarchy (12:30)
- Recruiting clowns: Clemson, Florida State (15:00)
- Florida's surge (22:15)
- Michigan's ascent (26:45)
- SMU's G5 to P4 jump pays off (29:30)
- Texas A&M, TCU battle for Texas leftovers (32:00)
- Colorado, Deion's recruiting philosophy working? (34:00)
- Brent Key, Georgia Tech's big win (37:15)
- Other winners/losers (41:15)
- Predicting transfer destinations for Jackson Arnold, Miller Moss & others (44:30)
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| 0:46.8 | I am David Ubbin and I'm here with two of the best in the recruiting world. |
| 0:49.9 | Mani Navarro and Mitch Light. Guys, did the athletic give you an NIL deal when you signed on to join our staff? |
| 0:57.3 | I wish they had, David. |
| 0:59.5 | Oh, yeah. I did not, though. Although I should have got in my favorite quarterback at BYU. |
| 1:06.0 | Did you see his NIL deal this morning? |
| 1:08.9 | I did. I got to be honest with you, Mitch. I am only |
| 1:12.7 | cursory familiar with what a Mata ball is. I got to tell you. Okay, well, it's Mannashevitz |
| 1:17.1 | was the company. And so Jake Retzlof, he has NIL deal with Manashevich, which is they make |
| 1:25.2 | matzah and the wine you have at Passover. So I had, Okay. It's very sweet. It's not the type of thing you're going to get home from a hard day at the athletic and come home and pour yourself a glass of Manashevitz. It's more of a holiday wine. So it's a very clever spot there. So that was fun to see. It's National Signing signing day week Mitch and manny and I are here to talk |
| 1:46.7 | you through a very fun uh 2025 class in our national signing day recap Texas Alabama and Georgia |
| 1:52.7 | going head to head in a race for the number one class and what would a crown mean for those programs |
| 1:57.9 | we'll talk about that Oregon out recruiting Ohio State in their first season in the Big Ten. What does that mean for the future of the Big Ten? Especially with Michigan soaring this year. Speaking of which, Michigan, Florida, SMU, Colorado, all with very interesting classes. And who are the winners and losers in this year's recruiting? We've got a lot to cover. Plus, Manny gives us some scoop on the transfer portal jackson are other |
| 2:17.6 | quarterbacks ready to find a new home but let's start guys the top 10 teams in the recruiting |
| 2:23.1 | ranking i'm going to run these down really quick texas number one alabama number two georgia number three |
| 2:28.0 | organ number four ohio state number five auburn number six, Michigan number seven, number eight is Texas |
| 2:34.9 | A&M, number nine, LSU, and number 10, Tennessee. Miami at 14, the number one ACC clash. |
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