Texas has their own state as a pipeline by virtue of the fact that all of their players are from Texas.
Notre Dame, for example, despite being in the state of Indiana, doesn't really have any Indiana recruits, and therefore doesn't have Indiana as a pipeline state.
Homestate of the college is not a guaranteed pipeline.
And please... I'm not saying the game is not glitched, I'm just making sure we all know how the pipeline states work before we jump to that conclusion, because there are definitely people who don't understand the mechanics of pipeline states (like those assuming homestate automatically counts as a pipeline state, for some reason).