College football season is rapidly approaching, which means high school recruiting will also soon kick into high gear.<\/p>\n
Major recruiting outlets ESPN<\/a>, 247 Sports<\/a> and On3\/Rivals<\/a> have released team rankings for the class of 2027, and area colleges are listed at many different points. In one of the nation’s recruiting hotbeds, a pair of SEC schools is dominating, while some Big 12 schools have some work to do before the early signing period begins in December.<\/p>\n Here’s a look at where every school stacks up across the three major outlets.\u00a0<\/p>\n Texas A&M<\/a> and Oklahoma<\/a> swept the top-two rankings across the three outlets. The\u00a0Aggies have five five-star commits, and the Sooners have two, per On3\/Rivals. Both schools have depth in their 2027 recruiting classes with multiple four-star recruits, per 247 Sports and On\/3 Rivals. According to\u00a0ESPN, Oklahoma’s top defensive prospect is Argyle Liberty Christian linebacker\u00a0Cooper\u00a0Witten, the son of former Dallas Cowboys<\/a> tight end Jason Witten.<\/p>\n Texas Tech<\/a>‘s class is rated highly by On3\/Rivals, but falls outside the top 10 for ESPN and 247 Sports. The Red Raiders have a commitment from ESPN’s No. 1 overall prospect in Texas, Cedar Hill defensive tackle Jalen Brewster<\/a>. Texas Tech head coach Joey McGuire, of course, was in the same role at Cedar Hill from 2003-2016.<\/p>\n SMU<\/a> was not ranked in ESPN’s top 20 and fell outside the top 50 for 247 Sports. There should be an infusion of talent for the\u00a0Mustangs soon though, as On\/3 Rivals ranks their 2026 transfer portal class<\/a> No. 25. Entering his fifth season, head coach\u00a0Rhett Lashlee will look to lead SMU back to the College Football Playoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"College football season is rapidly approaching, which means high school recruiting will also soon kick into high gear.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,772,112979,99583,99537,88146,89414,113168],"class_list":["post-325209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-oklahoma-sooners","tag-tp-baylor-bears","tag-tp-smu-mustangs","tag-tp-tcu-horned-frogs","tag-tp-texas-longhorns","tag-tp-texas-tech-red-raiders","tag-tp-oklahoma-state-cowboys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}