ESPN expert rates OU recruiting class No. 6 nationally
OU quarterback recruit Landry Jones of Artesia, N.M.
If Tuesday is Super Tuesday in the presidential campaign, this Wednesday, national signing day, is Super Wednesday for college football. ESPNU, the 24-hour college sports network, is pulling out all stops with a seven-hour special “ESPNU Recruiting Insider: National Signing Day Special” from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.The special will be highlighted by exclusive live player announcements, in-depth analysis, news and highlights of top recruits and collegiate programs from around the country. The final 30 minutes of coverage will recap the top recruiting classes for 2008. Lowell Galindo, ESPNU’s primary anchor, will host the Signing Day special along with Mike Gottfried, Dave Ryan and ESPN’s Scouts, Inc. analysts Tom Luginbill, Todd McShay and Craig Haubert.
In a conference call this week, Luginbull talked about the University of Oklahoma’s recruiting class, which he ranks No. 6 nationally.
Here’s his top 10: 1.Florida, 2. Miami, 3. Georgia, 4. Clemson, 5. Ohio State, 6. Oklahoma, 7. Notre Dame, 8. USC, 9. Alabama, 10. Texas. Other Big 12 teams in his top 25 are No. 15 Texas A&M and No. 22 Nebraska.
Luginbill: We have Oklahoma ranked sixth nationally out of our top 25 class. They have 19 verbal commitments, eight of those from our ESPN Top 150 prospects. They have a commitment from our No. 1 ranked running back Jermie Calhoun, who we think is potentially an elite difference maker in the backfield. We all know that Oklahoma is loaded up in the backfield, but it is also proven they are able to divy the ball up quite a bit. I think that football programs are built from the inside out, what I mean by that is you build them from the quarterback, up front on defense in terms of pass rushers, and also being to run the football. So what do they do, they get R.J. Washington, one of the elite defensive ends in the class, our second-ranked defensive end. They get another quarterback to add to the fold in Landry Jones of Artesia, N.M. Their playmakers at wide receiver are enhancing their offensive skills. This is a class that I still think has a few guys that they want to nab, obviously one being Julio Jones, the wide receiver out of Foley, Ala., who has yet to verbally commit but will do so on our national signing day show. I think it is down to Oklahoma and Alabama for Julio Jones.
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