Alabama tops Ole Miss 48-37 in Foster Auditorium

Signing Day storyline: It’s always nice to land the top recruit in the country on Signing Day, which is exactly what happened for MI when Rashan Gary chose the Wolverines over Clemson. His father, Wayne Davis, is still Alabama’s all-time career leader in tackles.

The initials for NSD is generally known for standing for National Signing Day among college football fans. Hall took a winding path to get to a Crimson Tide commitment that included a decommitment from Ohio State.

The consensus top recruit in the country will have a stage to himself to announce where he will be attending college.

Alabama will probably have the nation’s best recruiting class in 2017, too.

No team was a bigger victor on Signing Day in the SEC than Alabama. The Tigers didn’t get everyone they wanted, but still closed with a potential top-5 class. Barton Simmons, director of scouting for 247Sports, is impressed. After all, the Tigers began the day as the No. 1 overall class, and were hoping to add a few more blue chips to the fold on Wednesday.

It will take years to know which SEC teams truly won or lost on National Signing Day 2016, but now that all the highly sought after high school players have signed we take a look at the teams that fared best and worst during the roller coaster that is Signing Day. He made the first free throw but missed the second, which did not allow the Bulldogs to get off a good shot as the game ended. It just does not work that way, even for a program that should have no problem recruiting like Texas.

There might be an explanation (beyond playing longer last season) for Alabama’s rather slow move in 2016: They’ve had so many consecutive No. 1 or top 5 classes the roster is simply stuffed with talent.

Mississippi State was able to pull within one point at 43-42, but sophomore Justin Coleman drained a trey, igniting an 8-0 run to give the Tide its biggest lead of the night, 51-42.

Alabama signed three four-star cornerbacks – Shyheim Carter of Kentwood, La., Nigel Knott of Madison, Miss., and Jared Mayden of Sachse, Texas – with the size and ability to also play safety, along with flipping three-star corner Aaron Robinson from his commitment to Florida and early enrollee safety Shawn Jennings.

The Bruins also signed a strong group of receivers to play with sophomore quarterback Josh Rosen. Said coach Butch Jones: “We still felt there was room for more speed, more athleticism and we were going to swing the bat”.