The 2020 Texas football recruiting class falls in line in a weird spot in the Big 12 recruiting rankings, including behind a traditional hoops power.

Dark times fell upon the 2020 Texas football recruiting class prior to the commitment of the highly touted and ultra-athletic four-star Duncanville High School athlete Ja’Quinden Jackson. Landing Jackson’s commitment did help that 2020 Texas football recruiting class, but not enough to keep it afloat among the nation’s, or even the Big 12’s’, best.

Texas football gets its shot at winning over a host of top talent among 2020 high school prospects that just dropped their finalist lists of schools. But it could be a long time before those prospects announce their decisions. The commencement of the Early Signing Period a little bit under two years ago made for a completely different picture for summer college football recruiting.

But that didn’t stop the insane level of activity coming through for targets of the 2020 and 2021 recruiting classes for the Texas Longhorns football program lately.

The problem for Texas football recruiting right now is the fact that other Power Five programs are quickly leaving them in the dust in the national class rankings. While that shouldn’t matter all that much in the long run, Texas can’t lose sight of what other Big 12 teams are accomplishing in the midst of summer workouts.

The Oklahoma Sooners, Oklahoma State Cowboys, and even the in-state rival Texas A&M Aggies are making waves on the recruiting trail in the months of May and June. All three of those teams rank ahead of Texas in the 247Sports Team Composite Rankings for the best 2020 recruiting classes in the nation. Texas chimed in at No. 38 in the national class rankings, which is one spot behind even the Kansas Jayhawks.

Kansas did get a spark in the recruiting class rankings thanks to the hire of former LSU Tigers head coach Les Miles. That’s is a similar storyline to what the former Texas football head coach Mack Brown is doing with the North Carolina Tar Heels right now. Brown was the head coach of the Tar Heels before he originally landed at Texas.

However, falling behind Kansas in any regard on the recruiting trail is abysmal for the Longhorns and is hopefully rectified soon. Yes, Miles is giving them a boost on the recruiting trail. No, this should not be happening under the direction of head Texas football coach Tom Herman. It is the middle of the college football offseason, though, and shouldn’t last for long.

This is just weird that the Jayhawks could jump the Longhorns with a solid recruiting class in the first place. Bringing back old school head coaches out of retirement surely helped the Jayhawks and Tar Heels, two traditional college basketball powers, find a spark on the recruiting trail for football recently.