How to Tell How Many Recruiting Hours You'll Have in College Football 25 Dynasty Mode

A weak part of College Football 25 is the lack of explanations for mechanics in the game. This relates to both the gameplay and modes, and so I still see a decent amount of questions about how recruiting hours and scouting hours are calculated for their teams in College Football 25 dynasty mode. It’s actually a simply formula — if you know it.

One of the many great places out there doing the work to clear up confusion with College Football 25 is T4G Sports. They have a helpful table that explains how your preseason scouting hours and then normal week-to-week recruiting hours will be calculated. It has nothing to do with coaching trees or anything else in your control beyond the star level/prestige of your program.

You can see the real divide between the lowest of the lows and highest of highs, and so it’s a good reminder to just win, baby. Once you’ve hit that 4-star level, you’re eating good, and I think once you’re at 4.5 stars and 5 stars I almost don’t know how to spend all my points by midway through a season.

You can succeed when recruiting well before reaching those high-star benchmarks by following some guiding principles, but I would argue some of the fun is almost sucked out of recruiting once you don’t need to make many tough decisions week to week. This is probably why I like rebuilding programs and restarting dynasty mode after 5-6 seasons these days (or leaving my head coach position for a lower-tier school).