The 28 most talented college football games of 2017 per the recruiting rankings

Last week as part of our college football preview, I debuted the 2017 edition of the Blue-Chip Ratio, which forecasts the group of teams with the requisite recruited talent to win the national title.

While less important, I thought it would be fun for Crootletter readers to see which games have the highest combined Blue-Chip Ratio between the two teams. I found 28 that met the 50 percent mark.

Alabama is featured seven times, thanks to its 80 percent ratio number, which averaged with anything over 20 percent is good enough to make the list.

LSU shows up five times, while Florida State and Georgia make four appearances. The Big 12 does not have a single team making an appearance against another Big 12 team.

Quickly

• Kentucky QB commit Jarren Williams is still listening to South Carolina and LSU, as I noted in the latest update to the QB Dominos piece.
• Auburn’s recruiting class is taking shape quite nicely, particularly after the addition of four-star runner Asa Martin.
• Richard Johnson interviewed Willie Fritz, the coach of Tulane, about why the Green Wave cancelled their satellite camp with Michigan in favor of LSU. It’s a good article, you should read it.

“I was getting Michigan, who was really wanting to do it with us, and we were interested in doing it with [Harbaugh], but then they already had a camp scheduled that day, we found out,” Fritz said. “We didn’t know if Coach Harbaugh was gonna be able to come here, and obviously he was the draw, you know? When that occurred, I got back with LSU, and we talked immediately. I wanted to do it with LSU first, and I’m glad it ended up working out.”

• Ohio State landed four-star receiver L’Christian Smith, beating out Kentucky and other top teams.
• Indiana, yes Indiana, landed a four-star running back. Not every day you see that.
• Jaycee Horn, the son of Joe Horn, picked Tennessee over South Carolina.
• Dante Stills, a four-star defensive lineman, committed to West Virginia.