Moving on...

So the season is done, the crystal football now in Urban Meyer's trophy case. What's a fan to do? Obsess about recruiting, of course!

Ted and I have had offline conversations about the merits of Rivals.com and Scout.com. Our verdict boils down to this: A 5-star recruit (or a team of them) doesn't necessarily mean success at the collegiate level. (Though I'd argue that success in high school correlates much more with college success than college does with NFL.) Just look at Notre Dame -- the Irish have consistently (at least over the past few years) had classes well stocked with Rivals 4- and 5-star recruits. As for dominating records...not so much.

But these tools are about all we've got to work on. You can really read into what a coaching staff brings to a team and what a coach's priorities are by scouring those commit lists.

Look at SMU, for instance. June Jones had less than a month to cobble together the class of 2008. He managed six more recruits (29) than Phil Bennett did in 2007, with the same number of 3-star players. Lots of offensive line (think pass protection), a set of QBs and a bunch of linebackers.

For the 2009 class, with a full year to recruit, Jones has a couple of JuCo transfers (grrr....but at least they've got 3 and 4 stars by their names), no zero stars (had one of those last year), a half-dozen 3-stars and several more highly rated guys with high interest in SMU and scholarship offers. If you believe these rankings, the 2009 class could be SMU's best in years. And some of the better players are defensive backs and ends, areas SMU needs to really shore up in order to improve that win column.

So we'll keep watching until Feb. 4. Then the countdown to the 2009 season begins.