10-04-2026, 07:29 PM
FEI Special Teams
2021: #47
2022: #15
2023: #5
2024: #19
2025: #102
2026 so far: #66 before the Wake Forest game
Special teams has been an equalizer for Stanford for a long time and it fell apart disastrously under Reich. It's not good this year, worse than one would hope with our investment in specialists and coaching.
SP+ Special Teams
2021: #22
2022: #18
2023: #36
2024: #23
2025: #126
2026 so far: #128
Nobody needed stats to tell them Reich's special teams were a joke for us. That 2026 isn't good with Kaczor's addition is depressing.
247 Team Talent Composite
2021: #25
2022: #23
2023: #37
2024: #42
2025: #46
2026: #50
Talent has been dropping precipitously for years and we've been unable to stop the bleeding. 2027 will likely not even mark the year this stabilizes as our high school recruiting is poorer than the cycling out class.
247 Overall Recruiting Rankings (inclusive of high school and transfers)
2021: #43 (only one ranking that year)
2022: #27
2023: #59
2024: #49
2025: #54
2026: #37
2027 so far: #52
Stuck in below average territory for bringing in talent, may not have found bottom yet on overall roster quality.
247 Composite Recruiting Rankings
2021: #43
2022: #19
2023: #44
2024: #31
2025: #56
2026: #37
2027: #51
Similar picture of consistent inability to break through to above average recruiting. Most depressing of all is that with supposedly charismatic and hard-working Pritchard and Luck in lieu of caretaker Reich we have stepped back toward historically low levels of high school recruiting. For a program that claims it will build through high school and retention, that's pathetic. Other programs are putting more eggs in transfers, we're not, and they're still taking our high school lunch money.
2021: #47
2022: #15
2023: #5
2024: #19
2025: #102
2026 so far: #66 before the Wake Forest game
Special teams has been an equalizer for Stanford for a long time and it fell apart disastrously under Reich. It's not good this year, worse than one would hope with our investment in specialists and coaching.
SP+ Special Teams
2021: #22
2022: #18
2023: #36
2024: #23
2025: #126
2026 so far: #128
Nobody needed stats to tell them Reich's special teams were a joke for us. That 2026 isn't good with Kaczor's addition is depressing.
247 Team Talent Composite
2021: #25
2022: #23
2023: #37
2024: #42
2025: #46
2026: #50
Talent has been dropping precipitously for years and we've been unable to stop the bleeding. 2027 will likely not even mark the year this stabilizes as our high school recruiting is poorer than the cycling out class.
247 Overall Recruiting Rankings (inclusive of high school and transfers)
2021: #43 (only one ranking that year)
2022: #27
2023: #59
2024: #49
2025: #54
2026: #37
2027 so far: #52
Stuck in below average territory for bringing in talent, may not have found bottom yet on overall roster quality.
247 Composite Recruiting Rankings
2021: #43
2022: #19
2023: #44
2024: #31
2025: #56
2026: #37
2027: #51
Similar picture of consistent inability to break through to above average recruiting. Most depressing of all is that with supposedly charismatic and hard-working Pritchard and Luck in lieu of caretaker Reich we have stepped back toward historically low levels of high school recruiting. For a program that claims it will build through high school and retention, that's pathetic. Other programs are putting more eggs in transfers, we're not, and they're still taking our high school lunch money.