By most recruiting agencies, Georgia is currently sitting with the #2 recruiting class for the 2026 cycle.
And over at Rivals…
But how much are the top classes shelling out in NIL funds to get this?
Odd, for all the money that’s being shelled out in Lubbock, it’s not translating over into success in the recruiting rankings.
And while we’re at it, let me throw in some context for your daily Auburn Sucks moment:
One interesting omission from the top spenders list is Notre Dame. I know they’ve got the money, definitely have the capacity to be the biggest spender in all of college football. Although this is from a certainly scientific survey from Nakos, it makes me wonder how much clarity and honesty regarding deals are really going to be reported even after the House Settlement.
I kid when I say that.
Anyway, Alabama and Georgia are still doing well despite not making the list. Why? Well, here’s Kirby’s take on it.
Gotta keep believing that CKS has the winning formula. He took one of Georgia’s “worst” teams in the last four years and beat one of Texas’s “best” teams in the Sarkisian era and beat them. Twice. Once at their place and again on a neutral site.
Is 2025 a defining moment in the Smart era at Georgia? Will it signal if the Smart way works in the face of the NIL era?
Pads start talking in 40 days.
Notre Dame relies heavily on guilt and threats of going south when you depart this mortal coil.
State of Georgia is always loaded with talent. That backstop will always give us a boost.
But the surprise is that Texas doesn’t have more 4-stars to fill out the class. I think their in-state rivals have made some headway their by concentrating their efforts on landing the 2nd or 3rd best alternatives.
Texass oil doesn’t want to pay for 4 stars. All that money is going overpay for 5 stars recruited by somebody else for years.
On Georgia, in-state helps, but these guys know how to recruit.
These recruiting services who rank players and give them a star rating are not exactly accurate.
They aren’t perfect, but the NFL draft proves they are more accurate than ever lately.
I could end up being wrong, but it seems to me that simply being top bidder for 5 stars is not going to be a sustainable path for success.
Texas went hard after the last three commitments they got. They had lost out on about 5 big recruiting battles the week before they got Atkinson and Johnson. They used the money they didn’t spend to up the antes for Cooper, Atkinson, and Johnson.
If you can’t smell whut CKS is cookin’, then maybe a&m or lambotexa$$ is for you…the “Process” is alive and well in the Classic City, “Sweeping the shed” culture is simmering, CKS has some work to do on that front, but that man is on it, has got some good years left in him to really make “culture” a UGA football thing…ya gotta’ appreciate his motor/drive to exceed the standard, plus all those around him to excel and not settle….GO DAWGS!!
Speaking of recruiting: SEC Shorts is back:
Cute, but the 1965 casting was inaccurate.
Gaskilldawg
I’ve said it in another post last week, but didn’t TAMU with Jimbo Billy Joe Fisher try this and it failed spectacularly? At least that’s what Saban said he did.
But Pawwwllll, they ain’t paid nobody!!
Good Gawd Arch Manning and Texas are overhyped.
The intersection of talent and heart is where Coach Smart recruits.