Oregon’s roster has reached a new high under Dan Lanning, and the numbers make the case plainly: the Ducks are sitting at No. 2 nationally in 247Sports’ Team Talent Composite rankings, the best placement in program history.
That puts Oregon right in the middle of a shakeup at the top of college football’s talent hierarchy. For the first time in nearly 10 years, Alabama, Georgia and Ohio State are not all stacked together in the top three, and Oregon is part of the reason why. Georgia holds the top spot this year, with Oregon checking in just behind it.
The 247Sports Team Talent Composite is built to measure the full strength of a roster by assigning value to every player based on high school recruiting rankings. This year also marks the first time 247Sports has put together a data set using recruiting rankings alone, and Oregon lands second in that version as well. In the composite rankings that fold in other sites’ scores, the Ducks are third.
The rise has been steady since Lanning arrived in 2022. Oregon’s 2026 roster features 60 blue-chip recruits in all, including 10 five-stars and 50 four-stars. That’s the clearest sign yet of how much elite talent has piled up in Eugene.
The trend line tells the story. Oregon has now finished with a top-10 roster in six straight seasons, but this group is the strongest one yet on paper:
2026 - 2nd, 947.40, 10 five-stars, 50 four-stars
2025 - 5th, 941.22, 6 five-stars, 52 four-stars
2024 - 6th, 916.71, 6 five-stars, 50 four-stars
2023 - 10th, 874.74, 5 five-stars, 48 four-stars
2022 - 7th, 875.90, 5 five-stars, 46 four-stars
2021 - 9th, 885.75, 4 five-stars, 44 four-stars
Oregon also owns the top roster in the Big Ten for the first time. Ohio State is fifth nationally, while USC sits ninth and Michigan 10th.
Here’s how the full top 10 shakes out: Georgia, Oregon, Alabama, Texas, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Texas A&M, LSU, USC and Michigan.
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