National Signing Day is over, and Alabama signed its eighth No. 1 class in the last nine years. Amazing. On the other end of the spectrum, Vanderbilt finished dead last in the SEC per 247Sports and Rivals. The Commodores were also the only unranked recruiting class in ESPN’s class rankings. We’ve rounded up the recruiting rankings from each of the major services. With CBS Sports/247Sports acquisition of Scout.com, the site doesn’t produce its own rankings anymore. Please note the 247Sports rankings are not the composite rankings. RELATED: SEC’s winners and losers from National Signing Day Here are the rankings from the major recruiting services:<doc-sep>The formal National Signing Day for college football that you have come to know and love over the years went down Wednesday as the final pieces of the 2019 recruiting puzzle fell into place on campuses across the nation. The Early Signing Period, which was instituted last cycle, drastically changed the recruiting landscape as roughly 70 percent of Division I football prospects signed, but several key unsigned recruits made moves that will (eventually) alter the futures of some of the top programs in the nation. Alabama finished the day by winning the 2019 cycle with the No. 1 recruiting class, the eighth time in the last nine years they have been awarded that recognition. That does not mean the Crimson Tide were the only team to have a great day, however, as their SEC brethren were also some of the day's biggest winners. Auburn, Florida and Tennessee each picked up pairs of top-100 players, and all finished with classes among the top 15 in the nation. CBS Sports and 247Sports were be with you the entire way on Wednesday updating the proceedings of the entire day from new verbal commitments to National Letter of Intent signings and everything in between. Keep on reading to check out the biggest names that made decisions, our live analysis and the updated 247Sports Composite rankings. Key commitments Numbers in parenthesis represent 247Sports Composite rankings 247Sports Composite Team Rankings Try a 247Sports VIP Membership and get exclusive recruiting scoops, access to our experts, VIP-only message boards, and more for just $1 for your first month! Just click here, select your favorite team, and use coupon code NSD19 at checkout to get unlimited premium articles and much more! Hurry! This offer is available for new members only and expires at the end of Thursday, Feb. 7. Updates from National Signing Day If you are unable to view the updates below, please click here. TERMS: First month for a dollar promotion ends on February 7, 2018, at 11:59 p.m. PST. Coupon code NSD19 must be used prior to completing the purchase. This offer is available to all new monthly members. Membership renews automatically at the regular rate at the end of the first month. Taxes may apply. 247Sports.com reserves the right to alter or cancel this promotion at any time. Please write support@247sports.com with any questions you have.<doc-sep>The main National Signing Day is now the one in December. Most of the action that shaped the class of 2019 happened then or earlier. But there were a few key moments on February’s old Wednesday Signing Day, and now we have clarity on where teams’ classes finished. Signing Day’s one of the most perpetually optimistic times of the year. Every team that signs a bunch of four- and five-stars looks great. Every team that signs three-stars insists those players will be good, and no one can really disprove that at this point. So there are generally more winners than losers, but here’s a crack at labeling some standouts. Winner: Tennessee The Volunteers had a hell of a last hour of the last recruiting day of the year. Around 3 p.m. ET, they landed the country’s No. 3 outside linebacker, Henry To’oto’o, over Alabama and Washington. Around 4 p.m., they got the No. 10 overall player in the class, OT Darnell Wright and the highest-rated player still on the board entering the day. To get Wright, the first five-star in the history of the state of West Virginia, the Vols had to hold off a furious push from home-state WVU, which sent its whole staff to visit Wright before Signing Day. There are six five-star offensive tackles in the class, per the 247Sports Composite, and Jeremy Pruitt signed two of them, with Wanya Morris already in the fold. The Vols have a foundation in place for a mean, road-grading line for years to come. Winner: Georgia The Dawgs have to be a winner, because they secured the day’s highest-profile flip when they landed five-star receiver and longtime Auburn commit George Pickens. It was a huge rivalry blow, with the Tigers losing the highest-rated player in their class to a team they see every year in SEC crossover play. They also landed a high-three-star tight end, Brett Seither, who had an offer from Alabama. UGA had a turbulent winter, both with transfers and high-profile decommitments, but the Dawgs should feel good about a day that locked them into the country’s No. 2 class. Winner: Auburn Loser: Auburn The Tigers have to be a winner, because they landed and signed two of the top-100 players in the country on a day when fewer than 20 of those players were available to start. Those were defensive end Charles Moore (the No. 69 overall player) and ATH Mark-Antony Richards (No. 90). They also have to be a loser, because the best player in their class left them for the Dawgs. Life’s complicated sometimes. War Eagle. Loser: Florida State FSU, which is short on QBs, expected to land a possible QB of the future. The Seminoles expected to sign four-star New Orleans prospect Lance LeGendre, the rare blue-chip passer available this late in the recruiting game. But LeGendre instead decided to sign with Maryland, a program that had only recruited him for two weeks, according to Terps coach Mike Locksley. The Noles did some good things on Signing Day, but they’re looking at a QB situation that ranges anywhere from decent to disastrous in 2019. After their worst year in decades, that’s miles from an ideal spot. Winner: Florida The Gators made one of the day’s biggest splashes when they got a commitment from (and signed) four-star cornerback Kaiir Elam, the No. 4 uncommitted player entering Wednesday. Elam’s commitment was long expected but still great to formally secure. UF also flipped four-star edge defender Khris Bogle, a top-100 player, from Alabama. That’s even better than it sounds, because Bogle was widely rumored to be flipping to Miami instead. Loser: USC The Trojans, after a difficult start to the offseason, had a few balls in the air on Signing Day. They had verbal commitments from two blue-chip receivers, Kyle Ford and Puka Nacua, who hadn’t actually signed NLIs yet. And they were trying hard to land four-star Hawaiian guard Enokk Vimahi, whom analysts widely expected them to sign. They did ink Ford. But Nacua still hasn’t signed, and Vimahi signed with Ohio State around the time the Buckeyes lost another blue-chip guard, Doug Nester, to Virginia Tech. The Trojans entered NSD with the No. 18 class, by far the worst in their history. They finished it ranked in the exact same place. Winner: the SEC This was the most dominant recruiting year by one conference in the history of recruiting rankings. The SEC had four of the top five classes, a feat that has no real analog. (Those rankings: No. 1 Alabama, No. 2 Georgia, No. 3 Texas, No. 4 A&M, and No. 5 LSU.) The SEC is always the conference that comes closest to packing the top of the rankings, but it’s never done such a thorough job as it did in 2019. The talent gap between this league and its peers was already substantial, and it’ll only grow now. Winner: Texas The Longhorns broke up the all-SEC party at the top of the national rankings, finishing with the No. 3 class. Their Signing Day was quiet, with the biggest news being that a four-star verbal commit, OT Javonne Shepherd, hung with them instead of taking an offer from Texas A&M, Alabama, or Georgia. But being the lone non-SEC squad to ink a top-five class makes the Longhorns a default winner. They also got to announce to the world that they’d flipped the class’ No. 1 athlete, Bru McCoy, from USC. Loser: Hawaii The Rainbow Warriors have to contend with lots of West Coast recruiters every cycle. It’s common for the best players on the islands to play their college ball on the mainland. But in 2019, the top 18 recruits from Hawaii all signed with non-UH programs. Washington was the best recruiting team on the islands, while Ohio State, USC, Notre Dame, UCLA, UCF, Navy, BYU, Army, Washington State, and Arizona State all signed players from that group. Winner: Ole Miss Ole Miss was one of the busiest programs on Signing Day itself. The haul included: Ole Miss settled with a top-25 class and has come out of much of its NCAA sanctioning looking pretty good. Recall that in November 2018, the NCAA overturned a restriction on unofficial visits that would’ve hobbled recruiting efforts through the 2020 season. Loser: Clemson Ealy was expected to pick Clemson, and he didn’t. The Tigers will keep on dominating anyway, but I just wanted to put them here because nobody’s gotten to call Clemson a loser in anything for more than a year, and probably won’t for at least another 49 weeks. Ha, ha. Winner: Hat Theory Around these parts, we’re big fans of using the hats scattered on the table in front of a recruit at his signing ceremony as clues to where he’s going. This year offered a few commitments that vindicated Hat Theory as a way to pick a destination. First: Hat Theory 101: Hat clearly placed to one side for ease of access >>> broken in hat from 1978 possibly borrowed from random dude in crowd. pic.twitter.com/VLuCepkUEJ — Burnt Orange Nation (@BON_SBNation) February 6, 2019 That’s Shepherd, who indeed signed with Texas. Second: This has not been a great day for FSU on the recruiting trail, however, the fresh fit of the Noles hat as opposed to the other two being dad hats does offer some hope. https://t.co/yrB1iGzun1 — Tomahawk Nation (@Tomahawknation) February 6, 2019 Three-star offensive lineman Ira Henry signed with FSU. Winner: Alabama Oh, right. Bama finished with the No. 1 class, getting back to a perch it occupied seven years in a row before slipping slightly in 2018. The Tide lost two blue-chip commitments on Wednesday, and it didn’t come close to taking them out of the No. 1 ranking. Who else? What’d I get wrong? Let me know.<doc-sep>
An Early Signing Period in the 2019 recruiting cycle muted the dramatic swings in team rankings and class fortunes that we're used to seeing on Wednesday's traditional National Signing Day. But there was nonetheless plenty of drama throughout the day on Wednesday,. Here are the biggest winners and losers from Wednesday's National Signing Day action. Winners SEC: At the end of the day, four of the top five teams in the 247Sports Composite team rankings hail from the SEC. Seven of the top 12 are SEC teams, while Mississippi State is 11th in the conference and still sits inside the top 25. Collectively, the SEC had a great cycle and a great day on Wednesday. Some of the highlights are below: North Carolina: It didn't make a dramatic climb in the team rankings, but for a Mack Brown that could have been rusty back on the trail, the Tar Heels sure looked like a smooth operation. North Carolina finished the day just outside the top 30, and it is not far removed from being outside the top 60. In particular, the Tar Heels effectively managed to land two of the biggest senior risers in the country in linebacker Eugene Asanta out of Virginia and jumbo athlete Wisdom Asaboro from inside the state. It was only two prospects, but it was a 2-for-2 session that finished off an impressive close for Brown in Year 1. Maryland: Mike Locksley is going to hope to see his future signing classes ranked much higher than it will finish in the 2019 cycle, but he's also going to hope for signing days much like the one he put together on Wednesday. The close was impressive. In particular, Locksley was a thorn in the side of Florida State, stealing linebacker Cortez Andrews from the Seminoles and picking off Florida State's top quarterback target in Lance Legendre. It also added junior college offensive lineman Parris Heath, and perhaps most importantly of all, top 100 safety Nick Cross out of the Maryland area elected to hold off on signing with Florida State as he ponders flipping his commitment to Maryland or perhaps Penn State. Losers UCLA: Already working on a disappointing class that came into the day ranked 43rd in the country, UCLA had five targets it was focused on adding. The batting average at the end of the day was .000 with two pending. The lineup isn't pretty: Linebacker Tuasivi Nomura signed with USC. Defensive back Kenyon Reed signed with Kansas State. Linebacker Drew Fowler elected to walk-on at Washington instead of accepting a scholarship at UCLA. Ouch. Running back Jordan Wilmore has yet to sign as of this publication but looks bound for Utah or Arizona State. Wide receiver Puka Nacua has yet to sign but is projected by most to land at Washington, Oregon or Utah. Chip Kelly's recruiting effort will need a facelift in the 2020 cycle. Florida State: There's no context needed for a FSU class ranked 16th in the country. That's just not good enough. But the circumstances of Wednesday were a particular slap in the face. Willie Taggart lost Legendre and Andrews to Maryland, and he looks unlikely to hang on to Cross, who happens to be one of the best safeties in the country. Compounding the damage is the fact that, with the failure to secure a quarterback, Florida State is about to go two straight signing classes without a high school QB signee. The Seminoles did land critical offensive linemen Ira Henry and Darius Washington, but that doesn't quite soothe the disappointment of the other losses. USC: The Trojans are finishing up their lowest-ranked class of the internet recruiting era. Wednesday featured a few commitments but nothing like we're used to seeing with USC. More notable were the losses. Hawaiian offensive lineman Enokk Vimahi chose Ohio State over USC, but more expected was the loss to Ohio State for Midwest offensive lineman Dawand Jones. The Trojans did get an National Letter of Intent from five-star wide receiver Kyle Ford, but another highly-regarded wide receiver in Nacua declined to sign. In fact, despite Nacua being committed to the Trojans, he's got about four other programs in a better position as his decision approaches. USC may have found some future stars and NFL talents on Wednesday but they weren't the kind of players that other programs were valuing in the same way we've come to expect.