Georgia's status as a top TV attraction gives recruits another reason to be Bulldogs

Georgia has a lot to offer top recruits. It's one of the best programs in college football led by a Hall of Fame-worthy coach and one of the most passionate, loyal fanbases in the country. 

And people love watching the Dawgs. Players that come to Georgia know that they are going to be part of some of the biggest games in the country and will get to test their mettle under the bright lights that come with playing for a blue blood in college football. 

Georgia football's reputation as a top attraction was confirmed in this recent report from On3/Rivals that has the Bulldogs as the second-most watched team in the nation this season.

TV has been a recruiting pitch for decades

Before college football viewing was wall-to-wall from Saturday at noon to the early hours of Sunday morning, one of a program's biggest pitches to recruits was how often they could appear on TV. Back in the 1980s, the TV options were mostly limited to CBS and ABC with some cable networks (ESPN and TBS) also showing games.

But over the decades, college football has become one of the most valuable properties in sports broadcast television and that's allowed nearly every FBS team in the country to get the majority of their games on a major network or cable channel. Just ABC/ESPN alone devotes at least six channels each Saturday in the fall to all-day college football and that's not including their ESPN+ streaming service.

FOX, CBS, NBC, Turner and the CW have all devoted multiple channels and streaming services to college sports and, in the past, even the NFL Network has joined in on the fun.

Georgia has proven to be ratings gold

Everyone's on TV now, so the recruiting hook is no longer being on TV but rather when you're going to be seen. The sweet spot in the SEC is the ABC broadcast at either 3:30 p.m. or in the primetime slot at 7:30 p.m. (ET). That's when most eyes are watching college football.

The Bulldogs have been in the 3:30 or 7:30 slot on ABC five times this season so far with two more to come (Texas on November 15 and Georgia Tech on November 28). Georgia's game against Alabama was one of the highest-rated games of the season and last year's two Georgia-Texas matchups were the highest-rated games last year at the time they were played. 

As long as Georgia continues to win big and compete for championships, it's going to be a top TV attraction. I can guarantee it's something that Kirby Smart and his staff plant in the heads of the top recruits in the country. Come to Georgia and play in front of a national audience.