Ohio State has nine players who had a higher composite recruiting rating than the top non-Buckeye in the Big Ten.
JR WR Rakim Jarrett FR S Xavier Nwankpa JR QB Rylan Hilinski The Buckeyes have as many five-star wide receivers and defensive ends as Penn State has five-star players. The Nittany Lions have the second-most five-star players in the conference behind only Ohio State.The Bucks have five more five-stars than the rest of the conference combined .
While teams such as Penn State, Michigan, Michigan State and Wisconsin consistently fight for the top spot in the Big Ten, along with other teams on a year-by-year basis like Purdue and Iowa, there's a reason the Buckeyes are always among the teams at the top of the conference standings year in and year out. Talent matters. More specifically: Stars do, in fact, matter in the end.
For comparison’s sake, here's how Ohio State's 14 five-star players stack up against some of the other top programs in the country, specifically the other top-10 teams in the
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