The Buckeyes are right in the thick of things for landing one of the nation's top classes for the recruiting cycle of 2015. While Alabama and USC may be a little bit out of striking distance the Buckeyes can certainly improve on their current ranking of No. 7 spot in the Rivals.com team rankings.

Ohio State currently sits at 24 players at this point but are still trying to hold on to players like Mike Weber and Torrance Gibson, both who figure prominently into Ohio State's class ranking and of course future plans.

But with players like Porter Gustin, Isaiah Prince, K.J. Hill and Damon Arnette all sitting on the board with the Buckeyes in no worse than the top-three for each of the aforementioned players.

How do we come about our rankings however? We hear that question frequently and recently Rivals.com revamped the rankings formula and took the veil of secrecy off of it and made it transparent for the most hardcore recruiting fans to follow along with.

Obviously the higher the player is ranked the more points a school is going to get. But we only factor in the top-20 players in the class to level out the playing field to a certain extent and not to reward programs that habitually sign in excess of 30 players per class. Of course on the flipside, if you don't get to 20 then you are leaving points on the table.

We are putting Ohio State's class into focus and looking at who gives the Buckeyes the most points and what that means to the overall picture. In addition we are breaking down the whole rankings process in greater detail here -