Cincinnati Football's 2025 Recruiting Class On Pace For Lowest Rating This Decade

The Bearcats are going the wrong direction on the trail.

Cincinnati Bearcats head coach Scott Satterfield observes practice during spring football practice, Monday, March 4, 2024, at Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati. / Kareem Elgazzar/The Enquirer / USA TODAY NETWORK

CINCINNATI — The Bearcats got a big win on the field this past weekend but took a major hit off of it after the top recruit in UC's 2025 football recruiting class decommitted. 

Four-star tight end Mikkel Skinner has left Cincinnati's group flailing in the low-60s nationally and headed toward the lowest rating of any UC class this decade, including the 2023 class that signed amidst a coaching change.

The Bearcats now have just one four-star recruit in its 15-player class (CB Jahmari DeLoatch). This class is worse than the 2024 group, depending on what major recruiting service you look at, including a 13th overall ranking on 247Sports among Big 12 teams, with them part a big gap of bottomfeeder teams by overall rating.

Here is where Cincinnati's class stands among the four major services:

247Sports (62nd), ESPN (unranked), Rivals (64th), On3 (62nd), and the national average (62.66). UC sat at 43.75 on average on June 26.

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