Top Portal Classes For The ACC and Big 12
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🗓️ 30 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Well, let's switch over to the ACC then, Brian, and one of the first teams that we're going to talk about here |
| 0:22.3 | are the Miami Hurricanes. And they're a team that we both have ranked in our preseason top 10. |
| 0:27.9 | As of right now on Fandul, they have the seventh best odds to win the national championship this year. |
| 0:32.7 | And we believe that their portal class is going to play a factor in them making another run potentially to the ship. It's going to be very interesting to see what they do this year. Well, Miami was in a bit. They weren't quite like Notre Dame in regards to the lower numbers. They're pretty close. I mean, so they, let's see, one, two, three, four, five, a ten they only brought in 12 kids now i know |
| 0:55.2 | there's a couple other guys that they're looking to get and one knock on them is they did want to |
| 0:58.9 | tackle and missed out that that was the one big kind of black eye but Miami was not in a position |
| 1:06.6 | because they've done a lot of good high school recruiting that's what i like about what |
| 1:09.9 | crystal ball's done is yes he's gone out and lived in the portal the last couple of years. |
| 1:14.0 | But while doing so, has also gone out and brought in good high school recruiting classes and has gotten to the point where, like, it was clear that Miami didn't want to continue living in the portal, |
| 1:28.9 | that it was basically kind of how Notre Dame is doing it. |
| 1:31.6 | It was meant to be a, you know, get us by until we get there. |
| 1:36.1 | And their last three, their 26 class ranked in the top 10, |
| 1:39.7 | according to 247 sports, |
| 1:41.0 | they were 14th the year before that. |
| 1:42.8 | And then their 24 classes was fourth in the |
| 1:46.4 | country. And, you know, that class is getting ready to have a big impact on their depth chart. It's |
| 1:50.8 | Justin Scott, Marquis Lightfoot, Amando Blunt, you know, Elijah Lofton, you know, there's a lot of players |
| 1:56.8 | from that class that they're going to be counting on this season. OJ. Frederique is a part of that class. So there's a lot of guys from that class that they're going to be counting on this season. OJ. Frederique is a part of that class. |
| 2:02.7 | So there's a lot of guys from that class that they're counting on being impactful |
| 2:07.3 | players. |
| 2:07.8 | And it's that high school recruiting is why they haven't needed the numbers. |
| 2:11.1 | So they were in a position where we don't need 30 guys. |
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