ANALYSIS Class of 2026 Point Total Charts - Created 6/28/2025

LawDawg86 · 2025-06-28T23:50:19-0400

[Thanks and a shout out to @Postcard Dawg who pointed out that I had counted 21, not 20 in the Projected Class ... fixed]

I have no inside information. I do this annually to provide a graphic representation of the fantastic work of the staff, most specifically @Trent Smallwood's 2025 Class Prediction and @JedMay's information. I ignore anything posted by @Radi Nabulsi unless he is going on vacation.

https://uga.forums.rivals.com/threads/2026-class-prediction-updated-6-24-11-15-am.691754/

I also base it on things I read here, and elsewhere. But, for the most part, you can see this as a visual representation of @Trent Smallwood and @JedMay's work.

I will update it before the season, then possibly mid-season, then before ESD, then before NSD, and then one last time after NSD as a final review.

I am President of the Vent Disney Club, so I am optimistic about all of my listings. My friend @borodawg will most certainly come in to help me out and provide a more critical view.

Links to previous classes are found at the bottom of the post.

For the Newbies, this is all Rivals, not Composite or Consensus; with Rivals, only the top 20 recruits are counted.

Some things to help you compare where we are:

Top 30 classes since CKS got here:

2026 class - so far, things are looking really good. The last 7 days have been unreal. If we land half of the top players we are in on, we will easily be over 3000 points, which is really good in this era of parity.

I still think in general the talent is getting spread around more. While tOSU and Alabama are doing very well, neither looks as if they are going to be anywhere near close to the very high numbers pre-NIL. This makes a lot of sense, and the trend over the last 3 years has been lower class rankings for the 1-3 slot.

Bama (2021) - 3548
Bama (2017) - 3477
ATM (2022) - 3470
UGA (2018) - 3461
Bama (2023) - 3367
Bama (2022) - 3297
tOSU (2021) - 3262
UGA (2023) - 3235
UGA (2022) - 3235
Current 2026 Projected Class - 3366
tOSU (2018) - 3192
UGA (2024) - 3156
tOSU (2017) - 3078
UGA (2019) - 3063
UGA (2020) - 3055
Bama (2019) - 3047
Clemson (2020) - 3034
Texas (2025) - 3029
UGA (2025) - 3020
Bama (2020) - 3007
Bama (2024) - 3000
tOUS (2025) - 2965
Texas (2023) - 2939
tOSU (2022) - 2862
Bama (2025) - 2843
Texas (2024) - 2835
UGA (2017) - 2825
Oregon (2025) - 2812
Current 2026 Committed Class - 2741
UGA (2021) - 2704

Current Class - 2741 (2484 last year) - would have been 7th in the final 2025 rankings, much more to come)

Top 100 - 5 (4 this time last year, 8 the year before)
Top 300 - 14 (12 this time last year, 14 the year before)

Projected Class (3366 - would have been 1st in 2025, 10th all time)

Top 100 - 9 (last year this was 8 at this time, the year before 14)
Top 300 - 24 (last year this was 19 at this time, 22 the year before)

Horrible Class

In the past I've done a horrible class for the Chicken Littles who think we suck at recruiting ... I am not going to feed into that negativity anymore. If you don't think Kirby can recruit at this point, that's a "you" problem.