BYU defensive lineman Gabe Summers (98) rushes the passer as Virginia heart Olusegun Oluwatimi (55) tries to dam him within the first half durning a university soccer sport in opposition to Virginia Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021, in Provo. George Frey, Related Press
Main as much as the 2022 school soccer season, Rivals has been rating the highest switch portal additions in every convention, beginning with the SEC, and persevering with Wednesday with the Huge Ten.
The SEC switch rankings included former Roy/Nook Canyon Excessive College quarterback Jaxson Dart.
Dart transferred from USC to Ole Miss in the course of the offseason and is seen as vital sufficient an addition for the Rebels to rank No. 2 amongst all transfers to or within the SEC, behind solely former LSU cornerback Eli Ricks, who's now with Alabama.
The highest rated switch into the Huge Ten has ties to Utah too, if way more tenuous.
No. 1 on Rivals’ record of transfers into the Huge Ten this offseason is former Virginia heart Olusegun Oluwatimi, a two-star recruit popping out of DeMatha Catholic Excessive College in 2017 who has developed into among the best offensive linemen within the county underneath former Virginia (and BYU coach) Bronco Mendenhall.
A semifinalist for the Rimington Trophy final season — awarded to the participant thought of to be one of the best heart in school soccer — Oluwatimi entered the switch portal simply 4 days after Mendenhall abruptly resigned at Virginia.
Oluwatimi ultimately settled on Michigan, and along with his addition, the Wolverines are as soon as once more anticipated to have considered one of, if not one of the best offensive strains within the nation (Michigan gained the Joe Moore Award final season, awarded to the nation’s greatest offensive line).
“It's anticipated that Oluwatimi will step in instantly and begin for Michigan,” Rivals’ Davis Moseley wrote. “The Wolverines captured the Joe Moore Award (prime offensive line unit) final season and now have seemingly upgraded on the heart spot whereas returning three different starters.
“Oluwatimi carried out at an All-American stage final season and was not too long ago named to ESPN’s preseason All-America first workforce. Oluwatimi ought to be within the dialog for one of the best heart within the nation.”