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FB Recruiting Robbinsdale Cooper defender Emmanuel Karmo details his Minnesota Football commitment Ryan Burns
FB Recruiting 2025 Neenah safety Grant Dean takes in a Gopher Football practice Ryan Burns
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Football Schedule

08/31
13-10 W
09/09
25-6 W
09/16 @
31-13 L
09/23 @
37-34 L
09/30
35-24 W
10/07
10-52 L
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10/21 @
10-12 W
10/28
27-12 W
11/04
26-27 L
11/11 @
49-30 L
11/18 @
37-3 L
11/25
14-28 L
12/26
30-24 W

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Crystal Ball Predictions

- Adrian Holley
- Edge / 6-6 / 225
- 0.8244
- Predicted by: Allen Trieu
- 6 Med
- Vip Scoop
- Torin Pettaway
- DL / 6-5 / 265
- 0.8731
- Predicted by: Nick Osen
- 5 Med

Team News

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2025 Neenah safety Grant Dean takes in a Gopher Football practice

FB Recruiting Ryan Burns Apr 15, 10:45 AM

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2025 Arizona offensive lineman Nick Spence enjoys his Minnesota Football visit

FB Recruiting Ryan Burns Apr 15, 10:30 AM

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Minnesota EDGE commit Emmanuel Karmo has "freakish athleticism" says high school coach

FB Recruiting Ryan Burns Apr 14, 8:55 AM

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Tennessee CB Donovan Starr enjoys his first Minnesota Football visit

FB Recruiting Ryan Burns Apr 13, 10:31 AM

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Minnesota lands top in-state prospect Emmanuel Karmo

FB Recruiting Allen Trieu Apr 12, 7:31 PM

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Minnesota TE commit Cross Nimmo is an "explosive playmaker" says high school coach

FB Recruiting Ryan Burns Apr 12, 8:48 AM

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2025 Ohio tight end Cross Nimmo commits to Minnesota Gopher Football

FB Recruiting Ryan Burns Apr 11, 5:09 PM

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CB Charles Bell has three officials set, others in the mix

FB Recruiting VIP Premium Brian Dohn Apr 11, 11:49 AM

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2025 Shakopee OL Trey Boyd details another Minnesota Football visit

FB Recruiting Ryan Burns Apr 3, 10:55 AM

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OL Garrison Blank has a few schools standing out

FB Recruiting VIP Premium Brandon Huffman Apr 2, 3:00 PM

Top Targets

Alhassan Iddrissu
Edge / 6-7 / 220 0.8947
Caleb Williams
DL / 6-5.5 / 250 0.8847
Donovan Starr
CB / 6-0 / 175 0.8839
Jayden Loftin
Edge / 6-4 / 235 0.8678

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.