Three-Level Stance: Texas-Georgia, Elijah Griffin, flip season
Rivals nationwide recruiting analyst Sam Spiegelman has ideas on the massive sport between Texas and Georgia and five-star defensive sort out Elijah Griffin‘s upcoming faculty choice.
STATEMENT GAME OPPORTUNITY FOR TEXAS
Texas–Georgia was billed as must-see TV as quickly as we caught a glimpse of the schedule for the 2024 season. Now, it is a showdown between the top-ranked group within the nation and the massive Dawgs on the block which have had a stranglehold on that place for the previous few years.
This No. 5 Georgia squad hasn’t had the identical dominant really feel as a few of Kirby Good‘s championship contenders of years previous. We have seen the offense click on – at occasions – and kind of the identical for the protection. With Carson Beck manning the offense, Branson Robinson and Trevor Etienne within the backfield, and Mykel Williams anchoring the line of defense, the expectations naturally nonetheless are sky excessive for the preseason No. 1.
Texas, however, has appeared the a part of a No. 1 group. Whether or not it has been veteran Quinn Ewers or future starter Arch Manning, the Longhorns’ offense has been clicking, which has been a theme beneath Steve Sarkisian since he arrived in Austin. Extra spectacular has been the protection, which in its first season within the SEC has rapidly proven it has the star energy within the trenches to compete with any group within the nation.
This Saturday’s sport at dwelling in opposition to Georgia is one other alternative for the Longhorns to verify as a lot in opposition to the group that is been setting the tempo within the convention for almost a decade since Good’s return.
DECISION ON DECK FOR ELIJAH GRIFFIN
Elijah Griffin, the No. 9 general prospect within the Rivals250, is about to return off the board on Friday. Griffin is one in all 5 uncommitted five-stars left within the nation. He’ll select amongst Miami, USC and Georgia – simply days after wrapping up his closing official go to in Athens over the weekend, which occurred to coincide together with his birthday.
Miami has continued to push for Griffin main into and since his official go to. USC has additionally made the five-star DL a precedence and assembly Aaron Donald was a game-changer for Griffin. Nonetheless, Georgia has made Griffin and his mom a prime precedence since extending a suggestion within the eighth grade, and that consistency has paid off into his senior season as a choice started to set in.
There is a sense that Georgia will win out for the prized in-state defensive lineman and may very well be the beginning of a late-season run on the recruiting path for Good and the Dawgs, notably with the pool of in-state blue-chippers nonetheless excessive on their board.
FLIP SEASON IS APPROACHING
Very like a standard calendar, the recruiting calendar has its seasons. As the autumn winds down and the climate cools, flip season is more and more selecting up. We have already seen huge dominoes fall similar to Alvin Henderson, Dakorien Moore and Keelon Russell over the summer season, and Deuce Knight, Bryce Davis, Malik Clark and Bryce Davis extra just lately.
That was a energetic begin to flip season, and the stage is about for an excellent sooner end. 5-star cornerback Na’eem Offord, four-star receiver CJ Wiley, four-star offensive sort out Carde Smith, four-star working again Anthony Rogers, four-star linebacker Jaiden Braker and four-star receiver Caleb Cunningham are just some recruitments which have but to be shut right down to this stage. Cracked doorways at the moment of the yr normally make for late drama.
