Oregon's Blue-Chip Ratio Ahead of the 2023 Season
To be one of the best teams in college football, you need to recruit the best players in the country. It's no secret formula, and it's been the case for years.
For Oregon Ducks head coach Dan Lanning, he's quickly gotten to work recruiting and landing some of his top targets in the 2022 and 2023 classes.
In 2022 he landed the nation's No. 1 offensive tackle in Josh Conerly Jr. and he followed that up in 2023 by signing the No. 2 wide receiver in Jurrion Dickey among others.
Recruiting wins like that have Oregon tabbed as one of 16 teams capable of winning a college football national championship, according to 247's Bud Elliott, who gave the Ducks one of the top blue-chip ratios ahead of next season.
67% of Oregon's 2023 roster is comprised of "blue-chip" recruits, a term commonly used to describe four or five-star players.
Oregon was the highest-rated team in the Pac-12, with the USC Trojans being the only other team in the conference to make the cut at 52%.
The Ducks have been a recruiting power for the past five or six years, and that will continue to be the case under head coach Dan Lanning, who's made it his mission to go anywhere in the country to land players that can help Oregon capture its first national title.
Familiar schools like Alabama, Ohio State and Georgia headline the teams with the highest blue-chip ratios at 90, 85 and 77% respectively.
Elliott writes that the blue-chip ratio threshold doesn't guarantee a national championship, but if a team doesn't meet it they'll almost certainly find themselves coming up short of contention.
Expect the Ducks to continue checking this box and climbing the rankings for college football's most talented rosters with players like All-American cornerback Ify Obidegwu, safety Aaron Flowers and wide receiver Jordan Anderson headlining the next flock of blue-chips headed to Eugene in 2024.
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