The NCAA Division I Council announced two key rule changes that will impact the Georgia football program in the coming years.

On a recruiting level, the council agreed to lift initial counter and signing limits for the next two years, essentially allowing schools to sign as many prospects as they would like so long as the school is able to stay below the 85-man scholarship limit.

For a program like Georgia that wants to build through recruiting, this should be seen as a win. When the NCAA relaxed signing standards for this past cycle, Georgia went on to sign 30 prospects in the 2022 signing class. The year before, Georgia ended up signing just 21 players. From 2017 through 2020, Georgia signed between 24 and 25 players in each class.

“I think a lot of colleges are having to look inside out at who they recruit and why they recruit them,” Smart said in February. “Ten percent of these kids we are all going to recruit. It’s the next group that you better be careful who you are recruiting because they are going to make up the majority of your roster.”

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