College Football Recruiting: College Football Rankings: Alabama Football Recruiting – The University of Florida and University of Texas are set to sign college football’s top incoming classes, recruiting analysts said.

The Gators and Longhorns, who have combined for three appearances in the national championship game the past four years, are first and second in recruiting rankings by ESPN, Rivals.com and Scout.com.

As national signing day looms for college football recruits, Dietrich Riley teeters between choosing USC or UCLA.

The safety and running back from La Cañada St. Francis High has not ruled out Louisiana State or Notre Dame, but when he reveals his decision on Wednesday, he is expected to choose either the Trojans or the Bruins.

“The program has become bigger than one individual and I don’t mean that as a negative,” ESPN national recruiting coordinator Tom Luginbill said on a conference call. “The prospects were savvy enough to step back and realize that there’s a lot that the University of Florida has to offer.”

Today is the first chance for high school football players to make an official written commitment to a college under National Collegiate Athletic Association rules. Recruits previously could only make non-binding verbal commitments.

USC Coach Lane Kiffin had targeted Riley, a lifelong Trojans fan, even before Kiffin left Tennessee to return as Pete Carroll’s successor.

And UCLA Coach Rick Neuheisel had zeroed in on Riley long before Carroll’s mid-January departure for the Seattle Seahawks.

NCAA rules forbid coaches to speak publicly about high school players before they sign letters of intent, but Allen Wallace, national recruiting editor for Scout.com, described the L.A. battle for Riley as “kind of like a grudge-match mentality.”

Florida, which won national titles after the 2006 and 2008 seasons, has a class that includes four of the top 10 players in the ESPNU 150 rankings. Among them is the No. 1-ranked player, Ronald Powell, a 6-foot-4, 224-pound defensive end and linebacker from Moreno Valley, California.

Texas, which lost to Alabama in the Bowl Championship Series title game last month, added two of the nation’s top defensive recruits in Jackson Jeffcoat of Plano, Texas, and Jordan Hicks from West Chester, Ohio. Jeffcoat is the son of former NFL defensive end Jim Jeffcoat, who won two Super Bowl titles with the Dallas Cowboys.

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