Commits, flips, updated rankings and more, added throughout the final day of 2019 college football recruiting.

College football’s National Signing Day on Feb. 6 wraps up the 2019 recruiting cycle. While most players, coaches, and fans have already come to treat December’s Early Signing Period as the main event, this is still the traditional conclusion, with lots of top-100 recruits waiting until the end to sign and a little bit of drama left in the top five of the rankings.

This post will be updated as the biggest stories play out.

If you want updates on just your team, we got you. Since I don’t know who your team is, head here for free coverage. If you’re on Twitter, I’d recommend this list.

Below, you’ll find:

1. The biggest headlines
2. A status check on the top 100 recruits
3. A national news ticker
4. And the updated rankings

1. The national story lines to know, with more to come

Rankings business:

• Alabama is reclaiming the No. 1 spot after Georgia ended The Streak last cycle, likely falling shy of Ohio State’s record for the highest per-player rating ever.
• Georgia has No. 2 set.
• The biggest battle looked likely to be for No. 3, between Texas, Texas A&M, and LSU.

The biggest news:

• Five-star WR George Pickens flipped from Auburn to Georgia.
• Four-star DE Khris Bogle flipped from Bama to Florida.
• Four-star CB Christian Williams flipped from Bama to Miami.
• Four-star G Doug Nester flipped from Ohio State to Virginia Tech.
• Four-star S Nick Cross (Florida State or Penn State) appears likely to be the only top-100 recruit not to sign on Signing Day.

General stuff:

• Who’s the No. 1 recruit in this class? Well, there are four different No. 1s.
• As usual, signing a class of nothing but IMG Academy players would have you in the top 15.
• Here are this years recruits who’ll make you feel old, including sons of Big Boi, Deion Sanders, and Joey Porter.
• We have not one, but TWO recruits who have Kyler Murray-style baseball decisions to make. (One, five-star RB Jerrion Ealy, just picked Ole Miss.)
• Georgia, the state, once again barrels into the upper tier of recruiting power, alongside the standard Big 3.

Fun stuff:

• It’s unlikely anybody on NSD can top this very nice announcement by Syracuse’s Cooper Dawson.
• The year’s best recruiting graphics go to Ohio State’s NCAA 14 theme and Oklahoma State’s Red Dead Redemption 2 vibes.
• Most importantly: UNC signed a player named Storm Duck. His name is Storm Duck.

2. The status of the top 100 recruits

I’ll update each in bold when they actually sign.

This time around, we’ve had even more of the top 100 sign early than we did last year, when about 70 percent of all Division I recruits signed. Based on December’s 247Sports Composite ratings (which have since been adjusted):

1. IMG DE Nolan Smith: Georgia
2. CA DE Kayvon Thibodeaux: Oregon
3. LA CB Derek Stingley: LSU
4. OH DE Zach Harrison: Ohio State
5. IMG RB Trey Sanders: Alabama
6. GA WR Jadon Haselwood: Oklahoma
7. CA ATH Bru McCoy: USC (who then transferred to Texas after Kliff Kingsbury left)
8. OK S Daxton Hill: Michigan
9. LA DT Ishmael Sopsher: Alabama
10. WV OT Darnell Wright: Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia (4 p.m. ET hour, ESPN2)
11. TX OT Kenyon Green: Texas A&M
12. LA RB John Emery Jr.: LSU
13. GA OT Wanya Morris: Tennessee
14. MS LB Nakobe Dean: Georgia
15. GA LB Owen Pappoe: Auburn
16. TX WR Garrett Wilson: Ohio State
17. MI OT Logan Brown: Wisconsin
18. SC DE Zacch Pickens: South Carolina
19. GA CB Andrew Booth: Clemson
20. IMG OT Evan Neal: Alabama
21. TX WR Theo Wease: Oklahoma
22. AL C Clay Webb: Georgia
23. AZ QB Spencer Rattler: Oklahoma
24. GA DT Travon Walker: Georgia
25. VA LB Brandon Smith: Penn State
26. MI G Devontae Dobbs: Michigan State
27. FL WR Frank Ladson: Clemson
28. NJ DE Antonio Alfano: Alabama
29. CA WR Kyle Ford: USC
30. TX DT DeMarvin Leal: Texas A&M
31. GA C Harry Miller: Ohio State
32. LA G Kardell Thomas: LSU
33. FL CB Akeem Dent: Florida State
34. GA WR Dominick Blaylock: Georgia
35. AL OT Pierce Quick: Alabama
36. AL WR George Pickens: Georgia, flipped from Auburn
37. TX OT Tyler Johnson: Texas
38. FL CB Tyrique Stevenson: Georgia
39. NC ATH Quavaris Crouch: Tennessee
40. CA CB Chris Steele: Florida
41. CA LB Henry To’oto’o: Alabama, Tennessee, Utah, USC, Washington (3 p.m. ET hour, ESPNU)
42. CA RB Zach Charbonnet: Michigan
43. CA CB Mykael Wright: Oregon
44. TX LB Marcel Brooks: LSU
45. MS RB Jerrion Ealy: Ole Miss
46. HI DT Faatui Tuitele: Washington
47. AL QB Bo Nix: Auburn
48. IN DE George Karlaftis: Purdue
49. GA DT Chris Hinton: Michigan
50. CA LB Mase Funa: Oregon
51. CA WR Joe Ngata: Clemson
52. AL OT Amari Kight: Alabama
53. TX WR Jordan Whittington: Texas
54. CA QB Ryan Hilinski: South Carolina
55. TX S Brian Williams: Texas A&M
56. CA OT Sean Rhyan: UCLA
57. FL DE Khris Bogle: Florida
58. TX TE Baylor Cupp: Texas A&M
59. TX WR Trejan Bridges: Oklahoma
60. AR TE Hudson Henry: Arkansas
61. FL CB Kaiir Elam: Florida
62. MI CB Julian Barnett: Michigan State
63. TN CB Maurice Hampton: LSU
64. CA LB De’Gabriel Floyd: Texas
65. MS DT Nathan Pickering: Mississippi State
66. TX S Lewis Cine: Georgia
67. TX S Demani Richardson: Texas A&M
68. OH DT Jowon Briggs: Virginia
69. FL WR Jeremiah Payton: Miami
70. MD LB Shane Lee: Alabama
71. NJ G Caedan Wallace: Penn State
72. TX TE Austin Stogner: Oklahoma
73. CA DT Jacob Bandes: Washington
74. CA OT Jonah Tauanu’u: Oregon
75. GA DE Justin Eboigbe: Alabama
76. MD S Nick Cross: Florida State commit
77. FL S Jordan Battle: Alabama signee
78. FL G William Putnam: Clemson
79. NY DE Adisa Isaac: Penn State
80. VA RB Devyn Ford: Penn State
81. AZ WR Jake Smith: Texas
82. CA QB Jayden Daniels: Arizona State
83. FL ATH Mark-Antony Richards: Auburn
84. TX ATH Marquez Beason: Illinois
85. CA WR Mycah Pittman: Oregon
86. TX CB Erick Young: Texas A&M
87. NC QB Sam Howell: North Carolina
88. MS DE Byron Young: Alabama
89. TX WR Dylan Wright: Texas A&M
90. FL LB Rian Davis: Georgia
91. TX CB Jeffery Carter: Alabama
92. WV G Doug Nester: Virginia Tech
93. NC DE Savion Jackson: NC State
94. MD S DeMarcco Hellams: Alabama
95. MS OT Charles Cross: Mississippi State
96. MS DE Jaren Handy: Auburn
97. TX WR Elijah Higgins: Stanford
98. CA RB Austin Jones: Stanford
99. MS CB Brandon Turnage: Alabama
100. AR WR Treylon Burks: Arkansas

3. The updated rankings

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4. A national news ticker

5. Does all this really matter?

Yes. There’s little doubt that recruiting rankings are worthwhile at the big-picture level, despite those (wonderful!) success stories that spring to mind about two-stars overcoming the odds and getting drafted in the first round.

1. They matter at the player level.Blue chips are almost 1,000 percent more likely to be drafted in the first round. You can see the star ratings drop throughout the NFL draft. And five-stars are about 33 times as likely to be All-Americans as two-stars are.
2. They matter at the team level.If you break the country into five tiers of recruiting might, you find the higher-recruiting schools consistently beat their lessers, virtually across the board.
3. They matter at the championship level.Every national champion of the ratings era has passed a specific recruiting benchmark, as Bud Elliott’s Blue-Chip Ratio annually demonstrates. 2018 will be no exception.
4. There are major exceptions, duh, like CMU’s Eric Fisher, who went from being a 240-pound two-star to a 306-pound No. 1 pick. Hard to criticize national rankings for failing to predict a player will gain 66 quality pounds in college. Bill Connelly, who’s way smarter than me, still finds the rankings highly valuable, despite obvious flaws.
5. Perfection shouldn’t be the standard, though. Especially since the four big services get better during the course of a year and more accurate from year to year. Just Rate The Bama Croots Highly has been a winning strategy, for one.
6. At the anecdotal level, let’s take a look at how all of college football would’ve changed if one recruit, five-star Tim Tebow, had chosen differently. See how much one commit mattered?