Texas runs a near-zero offer-market blind spot

Recruit Intel classified high schools nationwide by one question: did the Power Four offer market keep pace with what the school actually sent to Division One football. A school counts as a blind spot if, across every graduating class from 2018 through 2026, the offer volume its players received from Power Four programs fell short of the number of its own players who reached Division One, at any level, Power Four, Group of Five or FCS. Only schools that have produced at least three D1 players are classified at all, so a school with a thin track record cannot register as either blind or not blind. The measure says nothing about any one player; it describes whether a school's aggregate Power Four offer count kept pace with its own aggregate D1 output.

Texas is the lowest of the ten states Recruit Intel compared by this measure, 0.8 percent blind, 2 of 258 qualifying schools, well under the national baseline of 15.4 percent (386 of 2,507 schools classified across every state). Where Texas ranks against the other nine states measured, and what Texas's own district-level data says about why, is in the full piece below.