"For a team like this, if they don't finish top 5 this year, they know they will next year, so it's not make or break," Rivals.com's national recruiting analyst Mike Farrell said. "But the difference between a top 3 class and a top 10 class is big. People don't think so, but if you look back at national championship teams, they had a couple of top 5 classes in a row. So getting in the top 3 is huge."