{"id":113553,"date":"2024-08-21T15:33:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T22:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/herosports.com\/?p=113553"},"modified":"2024-08-21T15:33:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T22:33:29","slug":"fbs-college-football-recruiting-rankings-cusa-cpcp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/herosports.com\/fbs-college-football-recruiting-rankings-cusa-cpcp\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 College Football Recruiting Rankings: Conference USA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Liberty was the best team in <a href=\"https:\/\/herosports.com\/college-football\/c-usa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Conference USA<\/a> in 2023. But plenty of other squads could be in contention for the league title in the next few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That starts with the recruits those programs are expected to sign in the near future. Here are rankings of recruiting classes among CUSA teams for 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-9a04ddb9\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-ca0a0411 related_art_block\">\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-black-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-black-background-color has-background\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-808aa430 gb-headline-text\">Related Articles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/herosports.com\/fbs-g5-power-five-college-football-conference-realignment-ranking-teams-cpcp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Group Of Five To Power Five College Football Conference Realignment: Ranking G5 Teams Most Likely To Move On<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/herosports.com\/fbs-group-of-five-college-football-playoff-g5-postseason-cpcp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Group of Five College Football Playoff? 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But plenty of other squads could be in contention for the league title in the next few years. That starts with the recruits those programs are expected to sign in the near future. Here are rankings of recruiting classes among CUSA teams for 2025. Related [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":111897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3832,21,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c-usa","category-fbs","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.5 (Yoast SEO v23.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>2025 College Football Recruiting Rankings: Conference USA - HERO Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Which teams have the best recruiting classes in Conference USA? 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