The four-stars are pouring in this month, branding them one of if not the hottest schools in recruiting. Its huge recruiting gathering to start June is really paying dividends -- despite some question to the contrary.

If that sounds familiar, no, we're not talking about Clemson.

It's referencing Oklahoma -- which, as you can logically surmise, is recruiting with a methodology awfully similar to Clemson under Brent Venables.

With the introduction of NIL, camouflaged pay-for-play recruiting enticements (and some not-so-masked), credible question existed this offseason about how the Dabo Swinney way would translate in the evolving recruiting landscape.

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Clemson has answered the bell in authoritative fashion this summer, catapulting to No. 4 in the Rivals.com team recruiting class rankings with 13 acquisitions since the start of June -- and 15 of its 17 total since mid-April rating as four-stars or higher.