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I think you mean there was a clear difference in talent level.
Teams like Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State sign a ridiculous amount of elite blue chip talent, while the rest is spread out to all the other teams.
To put it in perspective -- 2022. Alabama, Georgia and Ohio State signed 36 of the top 100 recruits in the nation. If you want to go even further, how huge the disparity of talent is between a top 4 class and everyone else. If you add in Texas A&M for last year. 55 of the top 100 recruits signed with the top 4 recruiting classes.
So 55% of the top 100 recruits went to only 4 schools.
Coaching and player development plays a big part, but if you don't have the recruiting to go with it -- You aren't competing with the elite programs and when I say recruiting -- I'm not talking about bringing in top 25 or top 15 classes. You have to be consistently bringing in top 5 classes with top 10 classes sprinkled in.
They put out the list each year of teams who have the prerequisite 50+% of blue chip recruits each year, but you could honestly narrow the list even more than the roughly 15 teams they have on it each year. Teams like Michigan, Penn State, Oregon, Miami, Auburn, Notre Dame. They hit the threshold, but many of the "blue chip recruits they sign are the guys ranked in the lower end of the blue chip rankings. You can see the size and speed difference when these teams play one of the actual elite programs. The only way I see one of these teams winning a title is if they have a generational talent at QB that can put a team on his back, like when Cam Newton did it for Auburn the one year.
