Just saw that ESPN recruiting piece with us in the top 25 for 2027 and I had to laugh. Barry Alvarez built this program with three star kids from Wisconsin and Illinois who wanted to run through a wall for the Badgers. We did not need five star rankings to beat Ohio State in 1993 or win three straight Rose Bowls. Now we are chasing recruiting rankings and hoping some kid from Florida or Texas picks us over the SEC schools. The 1994 team that beat UCLA in Pasadena had exactly zero five star recruits on the entire roter. They had a bunch of farm kids and walk ons who stayed four years and got better every season. I will believe in this recruiting class when I see them take the field against Notre Dame and actually win the line of scrimmage the way we used to.