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A fake player was given a rating by Rivals which led to a 247 composite rating due to the mechanics of the site. Pretty funny. It'll be interesting to see how this affects 247 recruiting rankings moving forward.

"247Sports announced a significant change to its recruit ratings service: its Composite will no longer list ratings for prospects who were not also rated by 247 itself. The reason behind this appears to be a recruit by the name of Blake Carringer, who doesn’t exist — or doesn’t exist as he was as briefly described by recruiting media, at least."

https://www.sbnation.com/platform/amp/college-football-recruiting/2019/2/14/18224994/blake-carringer-fake-recruit-247-rivals-recruiting-rankings

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At the very end of the article:

"247 doesn’t rate every player in the country. Some players who are rated in the Composite were actually only rated by one or two of the three services. So going forward, smaller schools might not have all their signees counted in the Composite’s ratings. It will take longer for some more prominent recruits to be listed in the Composite as well, since Rivals and ESPN data would only factor into the Composite once 247 rated that player first."

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This is a hilarious story. Doesn't only happen in football either.

Remember Tony Mitchell? Rated like a 93 by all the major recruiting media as a Mizzou recruit. Suddenly his highschool papers don't check out, he commits to UNT and he's *GASP* an 82?! Go figure amirite?

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Reminds me of a story from I believe the 1940's when someone made up a fictional college football team.  He made up the college, coaches, players, and gave them a schedule against other fictional teams.  Every week he would write up something crazy about the game and the wire service would send it out to newspapers all over the country.  

Below are a couple of articles about it. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plainfield_Teacher's_College

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/16/sports/ncaafootball/the-41-season-at-plainfield-teachers-college-when-every-play-was-a-fake.html

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