The Oklahoma Sooners have made CBS Sports’ Blue-Chip Ratio list once again for the 2024 season.
This was expected, as OU is one of the premier programs and brands in the sport and rarely lacks four- and five-star talent. The Sooners are one of college football’s most prominent blue bloods, and elite talents want to come to Norman.
CBS Sports’ Bud Elliott is the mastermind behind the Blue Chip Ratio, and he explains exactly what his list comprises of.
Although it’s not the most complex calculation, it’s an excellent method for identifying the top 10% of teams that realistically have a shot at winning the title,” says Elliot. “In simple terms: To win the national championship, college football teams need to sign more four- and five-star recruits (AKA “Blue Chips”) than two- and three-star players over the previous four recruiting classes.”
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Elliott dives deeper into why his list performs as well as it does each year:
This has been consistently true since the advent of modern internet recruiting rankings. But, this is not to say that the Blue-Chip Ratio guarantees a national title, or even competing for one,” Elliot says. “The requirement to stack talent on top of talent makes sense when considering the violent nature of football. Even teams which stay relatively healthy need depth to survive the season. Teams who sign elite class after elite class have greater competition in practice and greater quality of depth. … That is not to say that development does not matter. It certainly does. But nobody wins a national title by player development in lieu of elite recruiting. Plenty of coaches who are regarded as elite have never sniffed winning it all because they can’t accumulate enough talent. On the other hand, there are examples of coaches who are not regarded as premier head men who have won it all thanks to elite recruits. Not to lump them into the same category, but nobody ever accused Gene Chizik, Les Miles, Mack Brown…
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