Three big college football recruiting 'winners' that helped their cases in the month of July

A quick glance at your calendar (if you still have one of those hanging around) will inform you that we have now entered the month of August, which means college football is exactly four weeks away.It's an exciting time to be a fan, as fall camp starts to ramp up and practice reports will have every fanbase believing this is the year their team wins it all, but there's plenty of action off the field to be locked in on too, namely recruiting.Nowadays, most of the top-end talent in the current recruiting class has already committed to their program of choice by mid summer, but that doesn't mean we still didn't see some July fireworks on the recruiting trail.FIVE-STAR TEXAS A&M OFFENSIVE LINE COMMIT GETS TORCHED ON SOCIAL MEDIA FOR AWKWARD HAT RITUALHere are three college football programs that picked up big wins in the class of 2027 this past month.After a blistering June on the recruiting trail, Mario Cristobal and company seemed like they might have taken the month of July off for a little vacation.Who could blame them? After all, they were sitting comfortably within the top five of most recruiting industry rankings and their class was nearly full with 20 commits.DON'T BURY TEXAS TECH JUST YET: RED RAIDERS SHOULD STILL BE CFP CONTENDERS, EVEN WITHOUT BRENDAN SORSBYThen, about a week or so ago, some of the more plugged-in sources in the recruiting world started making noise about five-star cornerback A'mir Sears reclassifying from 2028 to 2027.Given his South Florida roots and the fact that the Canes were seen as the leader to land his commitment even a year out, alarm bells started ringing that Miami's elite 2027 class was about to reach another level.Then, on the last day of July, Sears decided to make it official, giving the Hurricanes their fifth five-star and putting the rest of the country on notice that The U might really be back this time.FIVE IMPACT FRESHMEN FROM THE SEC WHO ARE SURE TO TURN HEADS ON THE FIELD THIS COMING SEASONI didn't think it was possible for anyone to catch the Texas A&M Aggies, but Miami has a serious shot.Their class currently has the highest average player rating of any program in the 2027 cycle, sitting just above a 93.5, and they have only 21 commits as of August 1, which means there's plenty of room for expansion.Cristobal and the Canes are crushing recruiting by every conceivable metric, which should terrify the rest of the country.I know what you're thinking: "But Austin!