Recruiting vs. Ranking College Football Team Performance: Sun Belt

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Caveats:

  • Each year's recruiting rating is an average of the rank order ratings from two major recruiting services.
  • The Recruiting Rating Average is weighted to give the most weight for 3rd and 4th year student-athletes, and the least for 1st year student-athletes.
  • The Recruiting Rating Averages are rank ordered to assign each team a Recruiting Ranting Ranking for the team's recruiting rating average.
  • The Post-Bowl Ranking is an average of 20+ ranking services. It is not simply the AP, Coaches, or BCS ratings.
  • Read the full explanation on the index page.

Index | Top 20 Overachieving Teams
ACC | Big 12 | Big East | Big Ten | Conference USA | Independents | MAC | Mountain West | Pac-10 | SEC | Sun Belt | WAC

Updated 15 December 2008: 2008 pre-bowl rankings have now been included and the differences between those rankings and the recruiting ratings have been calculated.

School Conference 2007 Rating 2006 Rating 2005 Rating 2004 Rating 2003 Rating 2007 Recruiting Rating Avg 2007 Recruiting Rating Ranking 2007 Post-Bowl Ranking 2007 Post-Bowl Difference Missing Ratings?
Arkansas St. Sun Belt 79.5 103.5 103.5 97 86 98.65 106 94 12
Florida Atlantic Sun Belt 113 117 118 118 118 117.6 119 62 57 2003x2, 2004x2, 2005x1, 2006x1
Florida International Sun Belt 91 113.5 119 118.5 118 116.52 118 119 -1 2003x2, 2004x2, 2005x1, 2006x1
Louisiana Lafayette Sun Belt 113 98.5 84 104.5 85 94.93 100 110 -10 2007x1
Louisiana Monroe Sun Belt 110 108 110 106.5 91 106.55 113 79 34 2003x1
Middle Tenn. State Sun Belt 101.5 112.5 68.5 81.5 78 83.86 84 84 0
North Texas Sun Belt 108 109 89 85 94 92.94 96 118 -22
Troy Sun Belt 68 82.5 69 74 77 74.11 70 47 23