The high point in the recruiting season is over, as National Signing Day has come and passed. With that, we are evaluating which schools had the best recruiting classes for 2016, including which teams topped the rankings.
One of the best ways at determining who had the best recruiting class is to look at the individual recruits themselves, and Business Insider has a great graph show exactly that: which teams signed the most individuals that are ranked in ESPN's Top 300 in the 2016 recruiting cycle. Here are the results.
Despite falling out of the No. 1 team recruiting rankings at ESPN and 247Sports, LSU still made away with the most Top 300 recruits by signing 19 of them on Wednesday. To put that in perspective, there are several schools in ESPN's Top 40 that didn't even signed 19 overall recruits.
LSU also led the way with recruits signed out of ESPN's Top 100 with nine. So, while the Tigers may not have had the No. 1 overall class, they still made away with a load of talent on National Signing Day, a good mark for Les Miles after nearly being fired at the end of the season by an impatient LSU staff.
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