SEC football recruiting team rankings: Who has best signing day class?
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The nation’s No. 1 recruit is headed to the SEC. But not Georgia as was expected. Nashville quarterback Jared Curtis changed his mind and announced Dec. 2 he was switching his commitment from UGA to Vanderbilt.
Curtis is the headliner of the next wave of talent infusion into the SEC to start the early signing period.
While no SEC teams are in the top-three nationally in the 2026 team rankings through Day 1 of the early signing period, eight of the top-16 classes, including five of the top 10, are SEC schools, per 247Sports Composite rankings.
SEC football recruiting team rankings
All but three of the league’s 16 programs have top-33 classes. Auburn (52), Arkansas (60) and Kentucky (69) have all had coaching changes, as has Ole Miss (33). However, LSU (12) and Florida (16) have continued to put together strong classes despite a coaching change.
Alabama is the highest-ranked SEC program in recruiting rankings this cycle. Tennessee has joined the top five this season, while Texas and Georgia remain as top-10 contenders and Texas A&M is in the top 10.
Here’s a look at how SEC programs measure up in their 2025 recruiting class, in the order of their national recruiting ranking (parentheses), heading into the early signing period:
- Alabama (4th)
- Tennessee (5th)
- Georgia (6th)
- Texas (8th)
- Texas A&M (9th)
- LSU (12th)
- Oklahoma (15th)
- Florida (16th)
- Mississippi State (27th)
- Vanderbilt (30th)
- Ole Miss (32nd)
- Missouri (33rd)
- Auburn (52nd)
- Arkansas (60th)
- Kentucky (69th)
SEC football top-ranked recruits 2026 class
Of the top 50 recruits nationally according to 247Sports’ Composite Rankings, 21 have given a verbal commitment or signed a letter of intent to an SEC program, as of Wednesday, December 4.
Here’s a look at players in the top 25 of the rankings who have committed to an SEC program, along with their national recruiting ranking:
- (1). QB Jared Curtis, Vanderbilt
- (2). ATH Lamar Brown, LSU*
- (7) QB Faizon Brandon, Tennessee
- (9) QB Dia Bell, Texas
- (11) WR Tristan Keys, Tennessee
- (14) RB Ezavier Crowell, Alabama
- (17) LB Xavier Griffin, Alabama
- (20) LB Tyler Atkinson, Texas
- (25) CB Jorden Edmonds, Alabama
- (28) Edge Richard Wesley, Texas
- (29) DL Richard Anderson, LSU*
- (30) S Bralan Womack, Mississippi State
- (32) S Jireh Edwards, Alabama
- (33) OT Ekene Ogboko, Georgia
- (34) ATH Brandon Arrington, Texas A&M
- (35) TE Kaiden Prothro, Georgia
- (37) IOL Darius Gray, South Carolina
- (40) WR Cerdian Morgan, Alabama
- (43) RB KJ Edwards, Texas A&M
- (45) ATH Salesi Moa, Tennessee
- (49) WR Davian Groce, Florida
* indicates not signed letter of intent as of Wednesday, Dec. 3
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Football signing day SEC recruiting class team rankings 2026
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