How does UGA recruit elite talent when it doesn’t throw NIL millions around?

Kirby Smart (UGA Sports Comm) Georgia head coach Kirby Smart during the 2026 Allstate Sugar Bowl media day at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel in New Orleans, La., on Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2025. (Tony Walsh/UGAAA) (Tony Walsh/Tony Walsh/UGAAA)

By Jeff Sentel

Optics can be harsh these days with college football recruiting.

For a school like Georgia, which has consistently stacked elite talent like cordwood in the Kirby Smart era, those are compounded. The Bulldogs have established a decade-plus of precedent.

Here’s how each of the UGA recruiting classes has finished in the 247Sports Team Composite national rankings with Smart:

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