Georgia’s monster recruiting class is the 2nd highest-rated in the history of recruiting rankings

Georgia spent National Signing Day 2018 overtaking Ohio State for the No. 1 class in the country. The Dawgs’ class isn’t just the best this year. It’s one of the best in the formalized history of recruiting rankings, which go back to about the turn of the millennium.

Recruiting’s been covered for decades, but recruiting rankings really became a national thing around 2002. Here’s how the best recruiting classes have stacked up in the 247Sports Composite both by raw class score and average class score since then.

After the Early Signing Period, Georgia’s recruiting class had an average player score of 93.20 and a raw class score of 311.88 on the 247Sports Composite. Their surge on National Signing Day brought them to 323.3, or a few five-stars better than a class that could’ve ranked No. 1 in several recent years.

Georgia might add more players, though its class seems pretty full after morning additions of five-star cornerback Tyson Campbell, four-star linebacker Quay Walker, and four-star receiver Tommy Bush. You can only take so many players at a time.

The four recruiting services update their player grades every so often. There are a ton of players, and it takes time to pick through all the film of players’ senior seasons. So as new tape gets seen, new skills get exhibited on tape. Plus, high school All-America games are coming up, and those are great tests of nationally elite recruits who haven’t gotten to face each other yet.

Those fluctuations could be good or bad for the Dawgs. It might bump the rankings of some players up, but it could also send them the other way as well.

The Bulldogs are already in the Playoff in Year 2 of the Kirby Smart era. Imagine what happens when this recruiting class and last year’s No. 3-ranked haul start seeing the field in droves. In college football, depth wins titles, and UGA is building a two-deep that few teams can top.