According to Brian McLaughlin, who does this regularly, but I haven't followed enough to have an opinion, here are the top 50 FCS recruiting classes for 2018. We were ranked 38th in his list last year.
Of note is the lack of SDSU on the list, and I was surprised to see how many OVC schools were ranked above us! Opinions? Anybody have an opinion on McLaughlin's creds?
50 Holy Cross
49 Northern Colorado
48 UT Martin
47 Campbell
46 Duquesne
45 Alcorn State
44 Furman
43 Rhode Island
42 Houston Baptist
41 Northern Iowa
40 Elon
39 Bethune Cookman
38 Youngstown State
37 Fordham
36 Tennessee State
35 Howard
34 Illinois State
33 Dartmouth
32 Eastern Kentucky
31 Montana
30 Murray State
29 Stephen F. Austin
28 Prairie View A&M
27 Grambling
26 Western Carolina
25 South Dakota
24 The Citadel
23 Delaware
22 Penn
21 Sam Houston State
20 Stony Brook
19 Weber State
18 Southern Illinois
17 UC Davis
16 Austin Peay
15 Villanova
14 Columbia
13 Southern Utah
12 Kennesaw State
11 Mercer
10 Eastern Washington
9 Central Arkansas
8 Cchattanooga
7 Jacksonville State
6 Harvard
5 James Madison
4 NDSU
3 Montana State
2 Yale
1 Princeton