By late Wednesday night, Tennessee’s football signing class ranked 20th overall, eighth in the SEC and fourth in the SEC East, according to 247Sports.
Rivals also had Tennessee’s class ranked 20th while ESPN had it ranked 22nd.
So there you have it. The Vols will probably add a few more players, but the three major services agree that it’s a top 25, mid-tier SEC class assembled by Jeremy Pruitt in the two months since he took the Tennessee job.
Why, then, did it feel like folks were a little disappointed or underwhelmed with Tennessee’s class? More on that in a minute.
First, let’s look at another metric for judging UT’s 2018 class. How the class stacks up against the classes assembled by other new coaches in the the SEC: