Can you feel that? The NBA season is over, summer workouts are underway and we are just a little more than two months away from “football time in Oklahoma.”
To lead us up to the start of the 2023 season, 247Sports shared their list of 16 teams that have a legit chance of winning the national championship based on their blue-chip ratio.
Blue-chips are defined as four and five-star recruits. Blue-chip ratio is simply a percentage of four and five-star players on a roster heading into the season. To put it simply, you need more of those than two and three-star recruits to have a good blue-chip ratio.
There’s no guarantee that if you meet the blue-chip requirements, you will win it all. However, it is almost certainly a guarantee if you don’t meet the requirements, you won’t win the big one.
There are only 16 teams that have greater than a 50-percent blue-chip ratio, and this year that list consists of, in order, Alabama, Ohio State, Georgia, Texas A&M, Clemson, LSU, Texas, Oklahoma, Oregon, Notre Dame, Florida, Miami, Penn State, Michigan, USC, and Auburn.
That’s right, the Sooners come in tied for No. 7 with Texas with an impressive 70-percent blue-chip ratio.
But if you consider that Texas and Oklahoma are going to the SEC, and that USC is headed to the Big Ten, the landscape looks different. There is no team in the Big 12 not named Oklahoma or Texas who is even three strong classes away from joining the list. And without USC, Oregon is likely to be alone in the Pac-12 at the top of the recruiting list for a while to come. – Bud Elliott, 247Sports
Again, that doesn’t mean the Sooners will win the national title or even make the College Football Playoff. As you can see, there are several teams, including Oklahoma, that had poor seasons last year.
What it does mean is they have a chance to win number eight, and as Lloyd Christmas famously once said, “So you’re telling me there’s a chance?”
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