Georgia Tech Football: Jackets pass Georgia in 2020 recruiting
New Georgia Tech Football coach Geoff Collins is making waves on the recruiting trail, and the Jackets’s 2020 class has now passed Georgia in the rankings.
Georgia Tech Football head coach Geoff Collins has been on the job for less than four months and he is already changing the culture surrounding the Yellow Jackets’s football program. It’s all started on the recruiting trail, where Collins has made serious inroads with some of the nation’s most talented players.
After a commitment on Monday from 3-star defensive end Eddie Watkins out of Evergreen, Alabama, Georgia Tech’s 2020 recruiting class jumped into the Top-10 of the 247 composite rankings.
For those keeping score, that’s one spot ahead of rival Georgia.
Georgia Tech has long been seen as a sleeping giant in the recruiting world with Atlanta, and the state of Georgia as a whole, boasting fertile recruiting grounds. Collins is working to make the Yellow Jackets Atlanta’s team, and is looking to close the border around the 404 to keep the top talent from Atlanta and the surrounding area at home.
Collins is also making waves outside of the state. Georgia Tech’s current top commitment, four-star cornerback Miles Brooks, hails from Jacksonville, Florida.
A No. 10 ranked recruiting class would be Georgia Tech’s highest finish since the birth of the internet recruiting rankings in 2000, and would be just the third time the Jackets finished inside the Top-25 of the composite rankings. Recruits weren’t lining up to play in Paul Johnson’s triple-option offense, and while there was moderate success on the gridiron, Tech hasn’t finished higher than 41st in recruiting since 2007.
Hanging on to a Top-10 spot will be difficult as the Ramblin’ Wreck are boosted by the sheer volume of their class currently. They already have 12 commitments in the 2020 class – only LSU and Alabama, currently No. 1 and No. 2 respectively in the class rankings – have more.
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Regardless, Collins boosting Georgia Tech into the Top-10, even this early in the process, is a major accomplishment. He still faces a massive rebuild with the schematic change in Atlanta, but early returns on the new age of Georgia Tech football have been extremely positive.