The biggest day in college football recruiting is here. National signing week's early period begins Wednesday and lasts until Friday. This is the time when high school recruits are able to sign their national letters of intent to lock them into the college of their choice.

This is only the third year that football has had an early signing period, as opposed to simply national signing day, the first Wednesday in February.

We've seen more and more prospects make their decisions earlier and earlier. In fact, 71% of FBS prospects signed early in 2017, and that number jumped to 77% in 2018.

Signing day coverage Wednesday begins at 10 a.m. ET on ESPN2 and will switch over to ESPNU at noon. We be updating you throughout the next few days, providing updated class rankings, news, analysis, highlights and more.

Updated class rankings

We'll be updating our class rankings every hour, so stay tuned to see how the latest signings affect your team.

Player rankings, predictions and more

Your guide to national signing week: everything from which players have already committed to which ones are expected to announce this week.

Hot Board: Predicting where the nation's top players will sign.

The ESPN 300: the who's who of the top high school prospects in the country and where they will land.

Which junior college prospects can make an immediate impact at the FBS level in 2020?

It's not too early to take a look at the Class of 2021 and get a look at the top 300 juniors in the country.

Best announcements

Baylor breaks out the puppets

Top-notch route runner ?@iamsethjones_#20Below pic.twitter.com/Xae001Y9pS

— Baylor Football (@BUFootball) December 18, 2019

Mauler from #bEASTTexas ?@doitallbigmo#20Below pic.twitter.com/3Fg8CmlQvB

— Baylor Football (@BUFootball) December 18, 2019

Notre Dame calls on mom and dad

✍️ ➡️ ☘️@AidanAkfootball is #IrishBouNDXX.#GoIrish pic.twitter.com/UWI4DEPsOd

— Notre Dame Football (@NDFootball) December 18, 2019

Lego K-State!

Welcome home, @derick_newton#KStateFB ⚒ #NSD20 pic.twitter.com/wqnOlK4OkV

— K-State Football (@KStateFB) December 18, 2019

Cuse going with comics

The Mutant is ready to rip it up in the Dome!

Welcome to the Family!#JUICEDUP | #Commit2Cuse | #NSD20 pic.twitter.com/96MwntpTDV

— Cuse FB Recruiting (@Commit2Cuse) December 18, 2019

Keep your ?s on this future ?!

Welcome to the Family!#JUICEDUP | #Commit2Cuse | #NSD20 pic.twitter.com/UnB1YJmxKo

— Cuse FB Recruiting (@Commit2Cuse) December 18, 2019

Stories to read

Most recruits will use a table of hats and announce their college decisions that way. But the more creative players will use animals, cookies and even Snoop Dogg to make their announcements.

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