Michigan Football Recruiting
Michigan Football Recruiting
Michigan Football Position Greats
| Year | AP Final Ranking | Top Player Recruit | Players | (MaxPreps Lemming) | Hodge/Scout | Emfinger | ESPN | ||
2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 |
n/a n/a 24 12 UR UR UR 18 20 UR 13 |
Harris Green Kalis Beyer Gardner Turner McGuffie Mallett Graham Grady Henne |
n/a n/a 13 11 n/a 8 n/a 4 |
10 n/a n/a 10 5 |
7 9 10 13 4 5 |
n/a n/a 15 24 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 5 |
7 n/a 8 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 8 n/a 4 |
n/a 10 8 10 11 1 5 |
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| 2003 | 6 | Woodley | 17 | n/a | 7 | 17 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2002 | 9 | Watson | 22 | 9 | 3 | 16 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2001 | 20 | Baraka | 22 | 2 | 2 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2000 | 11 | Ecker | 21 | 20 | 13 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 1999 | 5 | LeSueur | 24 | 8 | 8 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 1998 | 12 | Henson | 19 | 1 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 1997 | 1 | Thomas | 20 | 5 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 1996 | 20 | Hutchinson | n/a | 9 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 1995 | 17 | Woodson | n/a | 10 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 1994 | 12 | Dreisbach | n/a | 3 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 1993 | 21 | Loeffler | n/a | 2 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 1992 | 5 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 1991 | 6 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 1990 | 7 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 1989 | 7 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 1988 | 4 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 1987 | 19 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
2015 Michigan Football Recruiting
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2014 Michigan Football Recruiting
Michigan Football Recruits for 2014
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Michigan Football Scholarship Summary for 2013
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2013 Michigan Football Recruiting
Michigan Football Recruits for 2013
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MGoBlog Recruiting Board for 2013
247 Sports Michigan Offers for 2013
2012 Michigan Football Recruiting
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National Football Recruiting for 2012
Battle for Michigan Football Recruits 2012
Michigan Football Scholarship Summary for 2012
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Rivals 250 for 2012 (Top Dual QB Pro QB RB FB APB WR TE OT OG C DT SDE WDE ILB OLB DB S Ath PK)
Scout 300 for 2012 (Top QB RB FB WR TE OT OG C DT DE ILB OLB DB S PK P LS)
Top 247 (ProQB DualQB RB APB WR TE OT OG C DT WDE SDE ILB OLB DB S Ath PK P LS)
Parade High School All-American Football Team for 2012
Detroit News Michigan Blue Chips 1-15
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WTKA'S Podcasts: Recruiting Updates with Sam Webb
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Oversigning
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Big Ten on Oversigning Part I Part II
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Detroit Free Press Mick McCabes Top 50 for 2011
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MGoBlog Recruiting Board 2011 (TomVH Twitter Updates)
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WTKA'S Podcasts: Recruiting Updates with Sam Webb
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National Football Recruiting 2010
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USA Today Signing Day Coverage
Andy Staples Top 15 College Football Recruiting Classes of All-Time
2009 All-USA Today All-American Team
MaxPreps 2009 High School All-American Football Team
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Detroit News Michigan Blue Chips 1-15Detroit News Michigan Blue Chips 16-60
There are nearly 4,000 football recruits listed in the Scout (Hodge) database so the top 300 recruits represent the top 10% of the available prospects. While Michigan (or any football program) would probably accept commitment offers of any top 4 or 5 star recruit as graded by Rivals, Scout (Hodge), TAKKLE, Lemming (MaxPreps), 247Sports or other scouting analyst, we have concentrated our efforts on prospects who have shown interest in representing Michigan football. While you can't sign them all, we were finalists for many top national recruits like we are every year. We offer scholarships to 200 or so prospects annually to reach 20-25 commitments of the total 85 allowed. If one considers that there are 120 NCAA Division I Football Programs with a potential of 25 scholarships per year per institution with a maximum of 85 total scholarships, there are as many as 3000 Division I scholarships potentially available. This doesn't include Division II teams, Division III or Junior College opportunities to play football as a walk-on, partial or full scholarship player.
Pre-1977: NO scholarship limits in D-1A football. It was up to each university to determine how many scholarships it could afford.
1977-1991: D1 Football limit of 95 scholarships due to Title IX
1992: D1 Football limit of 92 scholarships
1993: D1 Football limit of 88 scholarships
1994-Present: D1 Football limit of 85 scholarships