Dynasty is the most popular mode in College Football 26, and there is nothing more important than recruiting in Dynasty, as it's impossible to rebuild a program and turn it into one of the best in the country without great recruiting.
Recruiting the best players in the class, finding hidden gems, and knowing how to allocate your resources are all big parts of recruiting in College Football 26. It's impossible to have success in Dynasty mode, especially long-term, without mastering recruiting.
Luckily for you, our recruitment guide will help you learn the ins and outs of the most important feature in Dynasty mode, making it easier to rebuild low-tier schools, improve big programs, and create dynasties that will dominate College Football for decades.
College Football 26 Recruitment Guide

The first thing you need to do when setting up your recruitment board is to take a look at all the hours you have. If you are coaching a lower-tier team, you won't have many recruitment hours available, while top programs have significantly more hours, making it easier for them to recruit.
Make sure that once you set up your recruiting board in week 1, you use all the hours to scout and offer scholarships to prospects. For small schools, that's the only time you can afford to use hours to scout players, as you need to maximize the hours at your disposal in the best way possible.
When setting the recruitment board, prioritize players who have proximity to home and playing time as their dynamic deal breakers. Going for players with the conference prestige dynamic dealbreaker is also ok, but avoid at all costs recruiting players with pro potential, playing style, and championship contender dealbreakers.
The players with these three types of dealbreakers will likely leave your team in the following season if you are playing in a lower-tier program. So, you would be essentially developing them for one season, just so they leave for a rival or a better school the following year.
Once the recruitment board I set, and the prospects are scouted, you need to choose which recruits you are going to prioritize. While you can try to recruit a maximum of 35 prospects, it's better to try to recruit fewer players, but get all of them, instead of wasting hours on players that will never join your school.

So, 20 or 25 recruits is a good number to aim at, especially if you are lower-tier school. If you are coaching Alabama, all bets are off; just target almost anyone you like.
In week 2, you can see which schools are battling to recruit prospects. Some prospects will have no offers but your own, while others have half the country after them. When the latter is the case, check the pipeline of rival schools battling for the prospects and compare it to your own.
If you have a level one or two pipeline, and the schools competing with you have a level four or five, just remove that player from your recruitment board. You won't be able to compete with those schools; therefore, you will simply be wasting hours you could be using on a player you have a real chance to get.
After identifying the players you have a chance to recruit, removing the ones you don't, and maybe replacing them with recruitable prospects, the most effective way to make them commit to your school is to send the house. Yes, it costs 50 hours, but it's by far the most effective recruiting action.
The goal is to know a player's dealbreakers and then send a hard sell to close the deal, and make them commit as fast as possible, so you can then turn your attention to other players, maximizing your hours. Sway is useless in College Football 26, and soft sell isn't that effective, so don't waste hours on these two. Visits also don't swing the pendulum that much, or less it's on the transfer portal.

There is a trick to send a hard sell without knowing all the players' interests. Once you know at least one, check the player's main deal breaker, the one you can see when you are adding him to the recruitment board, which will give you the second interest.
When you know two of the player's interests, you only need to go through the pitches and see which ones include the two interests you are already aware of. In most cases, you will see that there is only one pitch available that fits the two interests, meaning that is the correct pitch.
You will often find yourself recruiting players who have no other schools interested, or the schools persuading them have lower pipelines. When that is the case, don't use a lot of resources on them, at max, use the dm the player option, or don't use hours at all.
While you need to check their interest weekly and see if other schools have surpassed you, since you have a higher pipeline, you can start to aggressively recruit them later, once the top 3 phase begins. Your higher pipeline means you can send the house, and go from the 5th to the player's 1st option in the blink of an eye.
For players with no offers at all, just let the bar slowly rise. They will eventually commit to your school, and you can use the hours elsewhere, like on players that you are in a close battle for. As mentioned above, visits are better used on transfer portal players, or when you are in a recruiting battle.
To summarize, scout players in week 1, go for players with the deal breakers mentioned above, just go for players you have a real chance at getting and don't be afraid to remove prospects from your board, prioritize a selected number of players, send the house to build interest, use hard sell to make them commit, monitorize prospects that have no or few offers.
If you follow these steps, you will be able to transform your school into a College Football powerhouse in no time.
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