No numb nuts, I am talking about the 2021 class. On it's own it is ranked 11th in the ACC and 47th nationally, it is not as good as CGC's typical classes unless you consider the portal transfers which are pretty good.
You do realize that's because of the way the class rankings are tabulated, right? We only had 16 high school signees because we needed to fill so many gaps with the portal. Rivals bases a class total on 20 recruits. So if you have 25, only your top 20 are counted. If you have less than 20, everybody is counted and you are basically 4 guys short. Let's start with Rivals:
We have 16 signees, 1260 total points. Out of our signees, everyone is 5.5 or higher except for one who is a punter, and another who was evaluated as an OL, we recruited at a DL, and he did not get to play his HS season (they are playing a spring season) to get re-evaluated at DL. So our floor is basically a 5.5 rated recruit. The transfers we brought in were much higher than that but we wont even worry about transfers for this. Just say we filled that class with 4 more 5.5 rated guys, that would add 240 points to our total (60 points each) and put us at 1500, which would be good for 29th place in recruiting rankings. If we fill it with four 5.7 guys, that's 360 points to our total (90 each) and puts us at 1620 which would be good for 23rd place. So a full class would have put us somewhere in that range, 23rd-29th. If you sort the current list with only our 16 by average start rating, we are at number 31.
247's calculator works on sort of a bell curve where the highest rated recruits count the most and the lowest count the least. So the more you have in a class, the less your lowest rated members count. The easiest way to figure where a class would be is to use their class calculator. Currently we are 47th at 186.82 points. If you add 4 of the lowest rated 3* players to the class to get it to 20, that number changes to 193.01, which puts us right around 40. Add 4 of the higher rated 3* players instead and that changes class rating to 200.09 which puts us 37th. Not as high as Rivals (which I trust more) but still a good bit higher than where we sit without a full class. If you have a completely full (25) class that helps even more on 247. Also, if you look at the current average ranking of our 2021 commits on 247, it is 86.42 which would jump us up about 10 spots going by that.