Signing Day Disparity

Today has been a crazy day for those following National Signing Day. Many fan bases have been feeling good about themselves, while many have not. No matter who you root for though, you must have noticed the differences that the three main recruiting rankings have between them. I have always found it quite odd that most of the time none of the three agree. Here are the top-15 rankings from each service (Rivals, Scout, ESPNU):

Clearly, these three have tons of differences. While each has UCLA and U$C as the top schools out of the Pac-10, the third one differs for all three. Rivals has Cal, Scout has Washington, and ESPNU has Stanford. At least Scout and Rivals both agree that Oregon is #13. Another striking difference is that U$C is ranked as high as #2 on Rivals, but as low as 7/8 on Scout/ESPNU. Speaking of U$C and Lane Kiffin, check out Tennessee's ranking on Scout. Much lower than both of the other services. Staying in the South, it is interesting that FSU is ranked #10 for both Rivals and Scout but as high as #6 on ESPNU. There are also a few teams on ESPNU's rankings that don't appear on either of the other two. As previously mentioned Stanford is absent from the other two, in addition to Ohio State, Miami, and Georgia. That's just above 25%. On Scout, Ole Miss makes an appearance as does Washington, and Rich-Rod's Michigan amounting to 20%. Rivals for whatever reason has California, Texas A&M, and Notre Dame, also comprising 20% of the rankings. As you can see, these three services have tons of disparities between one another. But hey, at least they all have Florida at #1.