Arizona State recruited the 2026 transfer portal well above its pay grade, with top additions demonstrating how much belief they have in coach Kenny Dillingham leading the program.
ASU has the No. 13 portal class in the country (third in Big 12) according to 247Sports, as of Saturday night. When taking out teams with new coaches bringing much of their former teams with them, that ranking jumps up to No. 7 (second).
The company it keeps at the top is filled with predominantly College Football Playoff contenders: Texas, Ohio State, Indiana, Notre Dame, Texas A&M and Texas Tech are the six programs ahead.
The Sun Devils are doing this without upper-echelon funding that Texas Tech is getting with billionaire oil booster Cody Campbell or Indiana is getting with billionaire business mogul Mark Cuban, for example.
Dillingham on the day his new contract was announced pleaded for ASU's version of that to come forward. It hasn't happened yet, by all indications.
What has happened, however, is continued forward momentum entering Dillingham's fourth year with a winning record now showing for his tenure (22-17), along with some notable assistants playing a big part in luring big fish....
Source: https://arizonasports.com/ncaa/arizona-state-football/transfer/3608868/
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