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Crystal Ball Predictions

- Carson Nielsen
- OT / 6-7 / 275
- 0.9254
- Predicted by: Nick Osen
- 5 Med
- Carson Nielsen
- OT / 6-7 / 275
- 0.9254
- Predicted by: Sean Bock
- 8 High
- Vip Scoop
- Jimmy Sullivan
- QB / 6-2 / 180
- 0.8606
- Predicted by: Sean Bock
- 6 Med
- Thomas Meyer
- TE / 6-5 / 210
- 0.9095
- Predicted by: Steve Wiltfong
- 6 Med
- Joey VanWetzinga
- DL / 6-2 / 255
- 0.8697
- Predicted by: David Eickholt
- 6 Med
- Joey VanWetzinga
- DL / 6-2 / 255
- 0.8697
- Predicted by: Sean Bock
- 6 Med
- Thomas Meyer
- TE / 6-5 / 210
- 0.9095
- Predicted by: Allen Trieu
- 6 Med
- Nick Brooks
- OT / 6-7 / 345
- 0.9321
- Predicted by: David Eickholt
- 8 High
- Thomas Meyer
- TE / 6-5 / 210
- 0.9095
- Predicted by: David Eickholt
- 6 Med
- Thomas Meyer
- TE / 6-5 / 210
- 0.9095
- Predicted by: Sean Bock
- 8 High
- Vip Scoop

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Here are Iowa's 10 offensive signees in the 2020 class

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2022 in-state forward Bijiek talks Iowa visit

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Elite 2023 forward Biliew recaps Iowa visit

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College Football

Source: Brady Ross signs with agent to continue football career

College Football Sean Bock Feb 3, 2020

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2022 DT Rustemeyer talks early Big Ten, MAC interest

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Inside Intel: Four-star safety considering Iowa visit

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College Basketball

Iowa Bracketology Update: February 3

College Basketball Sean Bock Feb 3, 2020

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2022 DT Wannstedt talks Big Ten, SEC interest

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Sandfort enjoys 'crazy environment' at Carver

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Iowa Basketball Visitor Preview: February 2

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Top Targets

Iose Epenesa
Edge / 6-3.5 / 230 0.9754
Graceson Littleton
CB / 6-0 / 180 0.9362
Nick Brooks
OT / 6-7 / 345 0.9321
- 100%
Thomas Meyer
TE / 6-5 / 210 0.9095

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2025 Recruiting Rankings

The Formula
where c is a specific team's total number of commits and R_n is the 247Sports Composite Rating of the nth-best commit times 100.
Explanation
In order to create the most comprehensive Team Recruiting Ranking without any notion of bias, 247Sports Team Recruiting Ranking is solely based on the 247Sports Composite Rating.
Each recruit is weighted in the rankings according to a Gaussian distribution formula (a bell curve), where a team's best recruit is worth the most points. You can think of a team's point score as being the sum of ratings of all the team's commits where the best recruit is worth 100% of his rating value, the second best recruit is worth nearly 100% of his rating value, down to the last recruit who is worth a small fraction of his rating value. This formula ensures that all commits contribute at least some value to the team's score without heavily rewarding teams that have several more commitments than others.
Readers familiar with the Gaussian distribution formula will note that we use a varying value for σ based on the standard deviation for the total number of commits between schools for the given sport. This standard deviation creates a bell curve with an inflection point near the average number of players recruited per team.
Below is a graphical representation of how our formula works. You can see that the area under the curve gets smaller both as the rating for a commit decreases and as the number of total commits for a school increases. The y-axis in this graph represents the percentage weight of the score that gets applied to an overall team ranking.