Can YOU Rebuild The Hardest Teams in CFB 25?

[@zeed7407]

The cpu always seems to be doing a Tulsa rebuild. They're always in the CFP by year 4/5

[@Im_Him02]

Frr

[@cswee123]

Oklahoma always seems to have good 4-5 star recruits that want to stay hole with the proximity to home as their deal breaker

[@famous9681]

This has to be true because in my dynasty I replaced Tulsa with a teambuilder team(Oklahoma Tech Griffin’s) and they’re in the top 25.

[@cswee123]

@@famous9681 always see at least 1 5 star QB who is like 90+ speed from Oklahoma every other year

[@zeed7407]

@cswee123 interesting, they're always still mid 70s for me and still top 25

[@EpilepticBob]

I did my first dynasty with Coastal Carolina, but now currently doing FIU and it’s been tough recruiting side has been okay, but barely getting out wins. Charlotte 49ers, New Mexico, New Mexico State were definitely a challenge

[@cswee123]

Glad to hear the list isn’t completely baseless lol

[@billscnb]

I run a multiplayer dynasty where everyone has to start out as a coordinator at a 1-Star school (or 1.5 star with an overall less than 80). I took FIU and felt they were pretty easy to out recruit everyone else in my dynasty. People were struggling to get top 100 classes and I finished just outside of the top 30 both years before taking a HC elsewhere

[@Iam123-i5j]

Try Eastern Michigan. They are solid but you will lose some silly games against bad teams a lot.

[@Billy-ey3pp]

Will have to give these a shot! Did ULM at the start of the game and it was a good run took a while but super rewarding

[@cswee123]

I looked into it at launch but never made a video but I think ULM has been top 5 all season they may have been number one since they had like a 72 overall at launch lol

[@nastythesamurai]

I'm from El Paso, so the first rebuild I did was UTEP, still haven't found one as gratifying, filling up the stadium was crazy lol

[@cswee123]

Sun bowl is a great stadium loved it when I played it in 14 starting a UTEP one offline soon and I am excited

[@tstumpf75]

I think cupcake rosters with a teambuilder team is most rewarding.. you put in the effort to make a team, you dont want to give up on em..

[@cswee123]

I get that I wish we could pre edit the players beforehand tho

[@6ixdashark]

@@cswee123u can i thought

[@VicklessFalcon]

I'm in an online dynasty with Jacksonville State. It's been tough but been redshirting guys and won the C-USA the last couple of years and ranked #4 in the country in year 4. I've mostly put points into tactician and that has helped in-game play a bunch. There's also a freshman WR named Jeremiah Colbert that is a 58 overall, but I redshirted him and moved to defense and he jumped to an 86 in year 2 and 92 in year 3. Their QB (Zion Turner) and HB's (Andrew Paul) are good enough to run the offense through them for the first couple years and for recruiting I've just focused on using points for the players that really wanted to come and built the team around them instead of targeting unrealistic players. Also in Year 1 they have Clay Webb (OL) and Sean Brown (TE) that have high overalls and get drafted which helps with Pro Potential right away. By Year 4 I've turned them into DBU and the offense is about to take off as well after figuring out the best way to do the spread option with their playbook.

[@cswee123]

Tactician is IMO the best to start with, really boosts players especially the OL and DL boosts. Definitely helps build small teams up right away

[@Greven840]

You can change your academic prestige. Its based on redshirts each season, less redshirts means higher prestige

[@cswee123]

I will have to test that, I haven't noticed it changing when I redshirt guys

[@Greven840]

@@cswee123 it goes down with redshirts. Don't redshirt anyone and it will go up

[@Hsw_wrestling]

I plan on doing a dystany with Jacksonville State. They weren’t my first choice because I was going to use Arkansas but I remembered they where in the game and changed my mind.

[@cswee123]

Jax state has some cool jerseys, also the color way is nice

[@Hsw_wrestling]

@ yeah they do . I definitely hope to take to take them all the way in a 5 year rebuild

[@cswee123]

@@Hsw_wrestling Definitely feasible any CUSA team can be an easy shoe into the CFP I feel like the other G5 conference always beat each other and have like 2-3 losses

[@Swaleyallday]

@@cswee123I am in year 2 with them and went from a 1 to a three star team. It def can be feasible

[@zackattack366]

Currently doing JMU and looking to defend my 3 peat

[@puzzledperspectivespodcast9617]

My buddy and I are doing an all sim league with UCONN and Buffalo. Focus is all on recruiting. Definitely the hardest way to rebuild

[@cswee123]

100% the sim logic will screw you a few times a season, but sometimes you catch a bad break IRL so it all works out in the end!

[@obird360]

I have no idea how easily you could run the data for everyone but have you thought about doing something based on most seniors in the top 10/15/etc for the roster's overall? Speaking as someone who picked Kansas in an online dynasty before learning their QB, RB, multiple WRs and 2 best CBs were all seniors haha

[@cswee123]

I could attempt to run through it. Would definitely be difficult for a rebuild

[@bobbymcculley807]

I think there rivals should have a impact on it too

[@cswee123]

With rivalries not being 100% forced to play each year I left it out. They also play a factor if they are in your confernce

[@2lozano]

Utep has been and always will be my favorite rebuild. They lose so many players after the first year so your first recruiting class matters. Dope station, good uniforms

[@cswee123]

Love UTEP the color way is perfect. Love the logo too. Also they have an insane DE year 1 he won the Heisman when I rebuilt them had like 24 sacks lol

[@mcontreras7595]

Same since im from EP

[@dylanculpen650]

Love my ULM Dynasty. In 2030 & this is the first year I felt like I had to start recruiting players outside of who is interested in the school. Use relegation and ULM has been in the Big12 for the last few years now. General Booty played like Booty for me but have now made it to being a constant 3-4 star program. Made it to one Natty and lost!

[@cswee123]

Sounds like it could possibly happen for a small program, long build up decent continuous results

[@dylanculpen650]

@@cswee123 I think it truly depends on the similar rules you discuss that individuals should create for themselves. I limit a lot for what I can do for my dynasty to maximize the creativity factor of it too.

[@cswee123]

@@dylanculpen650 100% everyone plays a little different with sliders, playbooks and how they limit themselves. I like to just make it similar to real life as I can imagine. a 6 year build up of a small team makes sense to me especially if you look at a school like liberty

[@Ducker-Productions]

I tried New Mexico and gave up when the game first came out 💀

[@cswee123]

I did a run took me 5 seasons to just get another job lol, left and moved on when I did

[@demariusshaw7149]

Lol it’s not bad at all, that’s my current dynasty and it’s been fun

[@cswee123]

@@demariusshaw7149it was fun. Love dampier but my goal was to beat Sabans trophy count and it wasn’t happening at NM

[@shawcole142]

I did the New Mexico lobos and grinded out two nattys with them

[@cswee123]

@@shawcole142 what a grind, hated leaving when I did in my run but wanted to get a large school early to set up a dynasty

[@andrewpruitt2k557]

I really hope the new game brings back the coaching carousel from ncaa 14 but keeps being able to hire and fire your coordinators

[@cswee123]

Yeah the coaching carousel was mediocre this year. I do like the ncaa 14 one. Get it done in one fell swoop

[@trailerparkboyz245]

The rebuild with the 0 overall team that Bengal made is pretty difficult to do because of the recruiting hours

[@cswee123]

Can't even imagine, wish we could play as one of the FCS teams in the game I think it would be cool with their rosters

[@Muss67]

Been using JMU on a online save with the boys and I never will touch that team again. Playbook is trash and recruiting is unnecessary hard.

[@cswee123]

I probably should have considered playbooks but figured most people would use their own

[@trentonseibold4806]

A dozen!? I've had 6 and feel like I am flying through them too quickly lol

[@cswee123]

I routinely get to like year 7-8 and feel like "I didn't play realistic" and restart lol. There is a guy on reddit trying to do all 134 teams and get natty with them which is crazy

[@HotboyGaming81]

true true true butttttt if you get the coach ability for pipeline boost it will accelerate these schools to the top easily these are bad schools but logistically have good pipelines...they just need a lot of boosts!!

[@cswee123]

Agreed I don't think any team is impossible but these are what I found to be the hardest on my criteria you can toggle with it and get a completely different list tbh

[@zeed7407]

I've seen it a little now and I'm curious, why is your screen dark like that

[@cswee123]

Man I hadn’t noticed. I think I changed my PS5 settings one night cause the game was too bright a few weeks ago. I’ll have a look thank you for the heads up!

[@dougiedoug03]

Whats been your favorite rebuild swee? I have done Marshall (alumni), ECU, Oregon State, Arizona State, Florida Atlantic, Kent State and UTEP

[@cswee123]

I did a New Mexico one and I liked it a fair bit. Also have done Buffalo, CMU, ODU and about to start UTEP. Those are my top 5 of the ones I have done.

[@tylernugent3617]

I loved my Marshall one. I recruited a 4* RB from West Virginia in the first recruiting cycle and I ended up getting him to break the season, and career rushing and TD national records. Plus, I recruited one heck of a defense and ended up getting a natty in year 5

[@Holdersouth]

Bro is goated

[@cswee123]

Appreciate it! Glad you enjoyed

[@Holdersouth]

@@cswee123 hey man I love your content so much

[@Holdersouth]

@@cswee123 you put in so much work I wish I had a work ethic like you

[@cswee123]

Doing it on CFB 25 has made it more enjoyable, appreciate the kind words!

[@BigB2745]

Man I wanna do a team that’s not actually bad, like maybe 2-3 star prestige, any tips for making a dynasty last?

[@cswee123]

You’re in luck I’m actually working on a video for the p5 programs. I’ll have it out in the next day or two! Iowa state is up there and so is Indiana if you want a head start

[@BigB2745]

@ thanks so much bro

[@cswee123]

No worries

[@jayyohnk8056]

@@cswee123Washington is pretty tough. 4 star team but their roster is only like an 82 overall

[@tuckermusic4719]

Kent state is easily the hardest. They have 1 player with any speed and they have a WR that is the only good player on their team. They also only have shotgun formation in their playbook and have terrible pipelines

[@cswee123]

I didn’t calculate the pipelines so that one I can’t really comment fully on. I think it’s a combination of good pipelines (in terms of recruit stars + amount of other teams). But the other two metrics didn’t include playbooks (since you can change it) and player ability. I just took generic overall and compared to conference opponents. If you look at it different ways you can get any sort of top 10

[@NCAA_K]

Im about to do james madison right now 👍🏿

[@cswee123]

JMU is a good one I like the east coast carolina teams a lot

[@NCAA_K]

@cswee123 facts I use other teams and they always in the top 25 by year 2-3 . I also started with Troy. Good some good 3-4 star recruits

[@alertbentley9014]

Why not Kent state? Is it the Ohio recruiting that makes it “easy”

[@floatinrocktubetalk3768]

Still hard af after year 1 Your only player worth having always leaves. Unless your unrealistic and win way too many games.

[@cswee123]

They have a middle of the pack pipeline ranking fell just outside the range we looked at, I took the bottom 50 teams to start and they were 52nd so didn't make the list. Probably would not have touched the top ten since the MAC is really low overall as well so not much variance

[@rodney6019]

Where its Kent State

[@cswee123]

Their pipelines kept them out they are pretty decent for a small school

[@linwoodmoorejr7515]

So what's the easiest rebuild??

[@cswee123]

I didn't calculate it but one of the 5 5 star teams. If you mean like a true rebuild (like they were good 10+ years ago) I would say Tennessee or Florida

[@dustin8887]

I will argue that these are not "rebuilds". Rebuilds imply they were once relevant and need to be rebuilt to return to former glory. All of the teams you have listed are just "builds". I enjoy your content and would like to see a list of actual difficult rebuilds i.e. Colorado, Nebraska, Stanford, etc.

[@cswee123]

I agree 100% but other creators have dubbed everything a rebuild so I also have to use it for the video the draw people in, I am doing a similar video for the P5 so there will be some true rebuilds there

[@buckcheese54]

You missed the chance to say, "That's just show biz, baby" lmao

[@IraH81]

What about Hawaii?

[@cswee123]

They had both mid pipeline and overall variance but they actually have a decent school grading compared to the others on the list they placed 25th

[@NCAA_K]

Rainbow warriors 🌈🌈🌈🌈

[@no_face9394]

Bad Teams = Bad Uniforms? 🤔

[@cswee123]

Nah personally if you are bad you should at least have some killer uniforms. Kent State understands

[@901champcity4]

Memphis, James Madison, The black and gold team in the conference USA 😂 the worse team in the game. Michigan was hard too. Oregon st, Iowa ratings are 85 but the defense can't hold no one. Oregon was the only team I played with that blocked for the QB😂😂😂

[@cswee123]

Blocking is miserable no matter what fr

[@jb_gamez]

UNC Charlotte rebuild kind of hard lol

[@cswee123]

Agreed but with the metrics I used they were 35th. Pipeline strength is good and they are ranked higher than most other teams in their conference

[@FreeStreamEast]

Had a blast with a charlotte dynasty

[@Tezzo448]

No Troy

[@cswee123]

They were honorable mention came in 14th

[@histeve09]

I rebuilt Kennesaw State on Heisman. Won the natty year 3 and haven't lost a game since. Need a new challenge!

[@cswee123]

Too good!

[@notacat7127]

I guarantee everybody puts these on freshman so all this was useless

[@cswee123]

I bet more people play Heisman but regardless of the person isn’t good freshman may be hard

[@notacat7127]

@ that’s facts but it’s almost tooooo easy on freshman