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.

This class is basically a Death Star.

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.

Highest-scoring recruiting classes, 2002-2020 Rank Team Class score Signees Rank Team Class score Signees 1 2010 Florida 324.6 28 2 2017 Alabama 323.9 29 3 2018 Georgia 323.3 26 4 2014 Alabama 319.7 26 5 2013 Alabama 319.5 26 6 2019 Alabama 317.5 27 7 2018 Ohio State 317.1 26 8 2006 USC 317 28 9 2020 Georgia 313.3 25 10 2012 Alabama 313.1 26 11 2007 Florida 313.1 29 12 2017 Ohio State 312.1 21 13 2010 Texas 312.1 24 14 2015 Alabama 311.1 24 15 2015 USC 310.9 27

These numbers aren’t necessarily finalized, but they are amazing.

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.

No matter what happens, Georgia’s class still makes it a team to be reckoned with.

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.