According to the 247Sports Composite rankings, the conventional recruiting class is ranked No. 13.
Naturally, the service scores these items combined as well, and Tennessee is ranked No.
11 overall. Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Auburn, and Oklahoma—all SEC opponents—rank higher.
Tennessee, however, ranked highly on average per recruit and lower on volume than many other colleges.
This includes Mike Matthews, a receiver from Lilburn, Georgia, and Jordan Ross, an edge rusher from Birmingham,.
Alabama, both of whom are five-star recruits. Though Matthews could be too talented to keep off the field as a freshman, the secondary .
and that position are similar to Tennessee’s offensive line in that more progress.
needs to be made by the players Heupel and his staff have scouted out of high school, signed, and developed.
