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Top Portal Classes For The Big Ten and SEC

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Irish Breakdown

Sports, Football, Big Ten, Nfl Draft, Ncaa Team, Notre Dame

4.5828 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Irish Breakdown ranks the top portal classes in the Big Ten and SEC for the 2026 cycle.

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0:00.0

Brian, let's kind of switch over and talk big picture national view. And we're going to break this down by conference. We're going to start with the Big Ten, transition to the SEC, talk ACC, and then the Big 12. And when we talk portal classes out of the Big Ten, it's kind of hard not to start with Indiana, a team that is fresh off of a national championship. They've been a hot topic of conversation due to the transfer portal.

0:38.8

But what we did is we took a look at all of these conferences to say, okay, which teams

0:43.1

did we believe in each conference?

0:45.5

Who had kind of like the top four portal classes?

0:47.6

And we're starting with the Indiana Hoosiers because they once again did a heck of a job in the

0:51.3

portal.

0:59.6

Just a reminder on kind of what we're doing here as well is it's this is not this is I looked at some of the portal class rankings as we were putting

1:05.9

this together and it was kind of like, okay, yeah, we're, we're going to follow a different model.

1:16.0

We're not going to go with the whole, you know, volume is better kind of thing. The other thing that we take into account is who you lost, what was the caliber of players

1:22.0

you lost, and did you meet your needs and add impact players?

1:27.6

And so a class with eight, like Notre Names,

1:30.0

could be as impactful for Notre Dame as a class with 32 or 40

1:33.9

or whatever the case may be.

1:35.9

And we're also not basing this off of high school evaluations as much as

1:39.8

where that's kind of part of it.

1:42.6

But like if a guy's been in college for two or three years and he hasn't done a whole lot,

1:46.2

you have to take that in consideration.

1:48.5

And so we've seen some classes that are getting a lot of hype from like on three

1:51.7

because they're ranking a guy that's a junior with two career sacks, you know, highly

1:57.4

because he's a, you know, like, and look, we'll use their name as example.

2:02.1

The fact that Quincy Porter ranks 66 spots ahead of Francis Brew is based entirely on high

2:06.3

school rankings. It's nothing to do with what they've done at college, right? We're basing this

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