How Pipelines Impact Recruiting in College Football 25

[Steve_OS]

Pipelines are one of the many mystery boxes in EA Sports College Football 25 and the...

Written By: Chase Becotte

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[tessl]

Excellent article. My strategy with Iowa State - not great pipelines - is scout the preseason players I want and then the next week see which ones have a scholarship offer from a team with a better pipeline. Then I keep the ones I have a realistic chance to sign and do a new search for players with zero scholarship offers. Scout fully to find attributes and gems. Offer a scholarship and start dumping recruiting points on them.

I also avoid certain dealbreakers - the ones that change significantly.

[rburgoyne]

Is there any spreadsheet or more detailed info somewhere on what types of prospects come from which pipelines? They given the QBs from SoCal and WRs from East Texas examples, but do we know what the other pipeline specialties are?

[Vanilla_Gorilla]

Little disappointing that pipelines can't be grown organically via recruiting. Or at least have some minor affect to a pipeline.

[ChaseB]

Quote: Originally Posted by rburgoyne

Is there any spreadsheet or more detailed info somewhere on what types of prospects come from which pipelines? They given the QBs from SoCal and WRs from East Texas examples, but do we know what the other pipeline specialties are?

It's a good question. I'm not sure if EA has really coded in things for every pipeline, but it would be cool if they had (assuming it applies -- I don't know enough to say if specific left tackle prospects usually come out of XYZ pipeline and so on). But my guess is only the "top end" ones really have more specific traits for players -- especially because the five-star recruits are mostly random and sprinkled through all the pipelines anyway.