Article: COLLEGE FOOTBALL: ; Signing Day '08; NATIONAL SIGNING DAY; One year can be the difference for prep athletes

Their fax machines still warm from the letters of intent that poured in during Signing Day, many of the nation's elite college football programs will go a long way toward filling next year's recruiting classes in the coming weeks.

As the commitments pile up, some of the beneficiaries may be the less marquee schools who get left out of this early scramble. As anybody who has been around teenagers will attest, they can change a lot in a year, so the trend of recruits committing earlier and earlier complicates coaches' already difficult task of predicting which ones will pan out.

"What's happened is it's kind of helped even things out," said David Yost, Missouri's quarterbacks coach and ...

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