{"id":21831,"date":"2025-05-04T00:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T00:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/21831\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T00:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T00:05:09","slug":"notre-dame-football-inches-closer-to-the-nations-top-overall-2026-recruiting-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/21831\/","title":{"rendered":"Notre Dame football inches closer to the nation\u2019s top overall 2026 recruiting class"},"content":{"rendered":"

Notre Dame football has been on quite a recruiting run over the past month-plus, and it didn\u2019t stop when the calendar turned over to May with the pledge of 2026 Texas running back Javian Osborne<\/a> on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n

The commitment now makes it No. 14 of the class, one that is closing in on the top group in the country. According to the 247Sports Composite Team Rankings<\/a>, Notre Dame now has the No. 2 overall class nationally, trailing just USC<\/a> for the top overall spot.<\/p>\n

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There is a caveat to this, as the Trojans<\/a> have thirteen more commitments that the Irish at this moment, and you have to believe that as more time passes, Notre Dame will have a chance to leap over one of its biggest rivals.<\/p>\n

Notre Dame has been in this situation before, with its class nearing the top of the rankings, but this time it feels drastically different. This is not about the volume that the Irish have accumulated, it\u2019s more about the talent they have in the class.<\/p>\n

Currently the Irish have an average of 92.14 points-per-commit, one of the top numbers in the country and just above what USC has. Notre Dame has staying power in the 2026 class to end up with a top group, one that could be head coach Marcus Freeman\u2019s best since he took over the program.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Fighting Irish Wire: Notre Dame football is close to having the nation\u2019s top 2026 class<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Notre Dame football has been on quite a recruiting run over the past month-plus, and it didn\u2019t stop…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,10260,1401,1418,51,10259,9653],"class_list":{"0":"post-21831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-javian-osborne","10":"tag-notre-dame","11":"tag-notre-dame-football","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-top-group","14":"tag-usc"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114446645627829059","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}