ACC Football Team Recruiting Rankings Prior to Official Visits

With the 2025 high school year coming to a close and the summer here, ACC football recruiting news will be heating up over the next month.

High school players will start making official visits this coming weekend and that will continue through the month of June.

With official visits come commitments and that will no doubt be the story for teams in the ACC and across college football. While a handful of teams have 15+ verbal commitments, that’s certainly not the norm as a majority of programs recruiting classes are in the early stages of coming together.

Lincoln Riley and the USC Trojans are recruiting at a different pace than everyone else and appear to have their Class of 2026 mostly in place as they have received commitments from 26 players already.

It’s no coincidence that with that many commitments, USC is the early leader of the 2026 Team Recruiting Standings. The question is, will that still be the case following National Signing Day in December?

Before commitments start to pour in, we wanted to take a look at where things standing at the end of May and see how much things change in the coming months.

Here’s a look at the ACC Football Recruiting Rankings (per Rivals along with the Top 10 Teams in the Country.

ACC FOOTBALL TEAM RECRUITING RANKINGS (on May 26th):

1) Clemson (4th Nationally, 15 commitments)
2) Miami (9th Nationally, 11 commitments)
3) North Carolina (13th Nationally, 15 commitments)
4) SMU (15th Nationally, 13 commitments)
5) Louisville (16th Nationally, 14 commitments)
6) Syracuse (17th Nationally, 16 commitments)
7) Florida State (25th Nationally, 9 commitments)
8) Boston College (27th Nationally, 13 commitments)
9) California (47th Nationally, 6 commitments)
10) Stanford (50th Nationally, 7 commitments)
11) Duke (56th Nationally), 5 commitments)
12) PITT (61st Nationally, 5 commitments)
13) Georgia Tech (64th Nationally, 4 commitments)
14) Virginia (69th Nationally, 5 commitments)
15) NC State (73rd Nationally, 4 commitments)
16) Virginia Tech (84th Nationally, 2 commitments)
17) Wake Forest (94th Nationally, 1 commitment)

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TOP 10 TEAM RECRUITING RANKINGS (PER RIVALS, on May 26th):
1) USC
2) Notre Dame
3) Ohio State
4) Clemson
5) Penn State
6) LSU
7) Texas A&M
8) Illinois
9) Miami, Fla.
10) Kansas