EA Sports College Football 25 Review - Is it WORTH Your Money!?

EA Sports College Football 25 is finally here! So, how does EA's return to the college football scene fair? Find out in our SGO review of the game.

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NCAA Football was an American football video game series developed by EA Sports in which players control and compete against current Division I FBS college teams. The series is a younger brother to the Madden NFL series.

In July 2013, the NCAA announced that it would not renew its licensing contract with Electronic Arts because of an ongoing legal dispute regarding the use of player likenesses in the games. However, this contract only covers the use of the NCAA name and related logos, not those of individual schools and conferences, which are negotiated individually or through the Collegiate Licensing Company. The CLC concurrently announced that it would extend its existing licensing deal with EA through 2017, ensuring that EA Sports could continue the series without the NCAA branding. However, the series was placed on hiatus in September 2013, following three major conferences pulling their trademark licenses from EA, and uncertainties surrounding the results of lawsuits involving the use of player likenesses in-game. However, EA Sports is still making an attempt to get the series back going.

Players' real names and exact likenesses are not used in the game. While the Madden NFL series uses real player names and likenesses, those players are compensated for the use of their image. Due to NCAA restrictions on the amateur status of athletes, names are not allowed. Additionally, current college players cannot be used as cover athletes. Instead, each cover features a player whose college eligibility ended the season before the game's release, wearing his former college uniform. The only two exceptions have been the Wii version of NCAA Football 09, which featured Sparty, the mascot of Michigan State University, on the cover, and NCAA Football 06 when Desmond Howard was featured on the cover striking the Heisman Trophy pose during his career at Michigan, despite not playing for Michigan for more than 15 years.

Although EA Sports does not claim that the players in the game represent real life players, the jersey number, position, height, weight, home state, and ethnicity are aligned with the real players. Fans of any particular team are sure to recognize their favorite players (for example, in NCAA Football 2014, University of North Carolina Tar Heels QB #2 would correspond to QB Bryn Renner). Actual usage of a player's real name would be in violation of the NCAA's policy regarding student-athletes. Amateur "roster makers" will often manually associate player names and will upload a roster file to the built-in roster sharing system. As of the 09 release, EA has put in the EA Locker feature which allows remote roster sharing online through either Xbox Live or PlayStation Network depending on the console.

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[Cheka__]

Whether it's good or not, I'm really sick of EA's monopoly on football games, and sports games in general.

[abelramirez]

Im gonna be real with myself, the fact that i haven't played a single football game since madden 04 is probably helping me enjoy this more than a lot of people.

[TheWickedyo]

I would encourage everyone who’s considering buying the game to download the free trial on EA Play first and make your decision from there. For me, the game is solid but not a game I would play regularly. 6 out of 10 for me.

[patrickmichaels]

Everyone should remember that they delayed this game for an extra year...then gave us this wet turd of a game.

[Jisaacs]

Hot take: once the honeymoon phase ends, people are gonna grow tired of all the gameplay problems i.e. Oline letting Dline straight thru, dropped interceptions that hit thier hands, pursuit... the list grows daily

[randallbowman]

The gameplay sliders are useless. I experimented with the different difficulty levels:

1) Setting it to Varsity and putting all the CPU sliders to 0, and Human sliders to 100, I still get sacked all the time, CPU still completes passes at will, I still can't stop the CPU on 3rd down, and interceptions are still rare.

[MrShanester]

Can’t believe all these people didn’t see this coming. I’ll say it again. It’s EA!

[fficialdregs]

plot twist: Madden 25 is a reskin NCAA 25.

No Customization, No offline Teambuilder, and the many features removed that were in former games.

[jd___art]

The lack of customization and editing Ai generated players is very disappointing

[TimothyC.]

All I know is this. When ‘14 came out, people had wish lists, but they didn’t have as many complaints.

[bobloblaw]

Shiny and fun for a day or two, then all the cracks start showing. If you have to have it wait for a sale cuz this dog isn't worth AAA pricing, not even close.

[spursdynasty]

2K Sports should be making this game. Somethings never change 😂

[mundanemorselsmundanemorse]

People are majorly overrating this game due to both nostalgia and hype. This is an arcade game, plain and simple. Even garbage QBs often throw for 80%, and most games have way too many INTs.

In Madden 24, I often end games with realistic stats. Even after trying tons of slider combos, I’m still seeing goofy stats in every user-played game in CFB 25.

Graphics are sub-par. Run outs are muddy, and on-field is just okay. You could tell me this is running in PS4 and I wouldn’t bat an eye.

But by FAR the worst offender here is the Pass defense. Even elite DBs play like morons. And every QB has Brady-like accuracy for the most part, making for 80% passing games out the wazoo.

Finally, if you go back and play the old games, you’ll see they awesome stadium atmospheres, including run outs that often surpassed this game, as well as things like custom stadium music (want Pantera to play on TDs? Go for it.).

Overall this is a 6/10. I’ll be playing 12 and 13 just as much as this, if not more.

[Malikou]

Sorry for all the College Football enthusiastics, the game is good in terms of gameplay but is very basic outside of the field. Presentation is repetitive with the same cut scenes over and over. Immersion is bad in Road to Glory and Dynasty mode. No news for others games, on others school performances during season. No EA track, no customization options, no Halftime Reports. Looks fun at the beginning but is boring on long term. A positive point is the atmosphere during College Football Playoffs against strongest team like Notre Dame, some confrontation are almost intimidating.

But unfortunately, ESPN NFL 2k5 and NCAA 14 stays absolute GOATs.

[BD-jiqu]

It's worth the price of having something pretty to look at....beyond that no.

[mitchhoward]

The gameplay and graphics are good, but Dynasty Mode needs major improvements. The recruiting has many glitches and needs improved. My favorite glitch is that most 4/5 star recruits don't like it when ranked teams blow out other ranked teams. I played Georgia week 0 and won 73-10. The next week, i beat Oregon 73-20. In two weeks, the recruits' interest to join my school dropped from 1st-8th. I even used the recruiting ability. I would rate the game a 5/10 based on the bad and boring recruiting. 😂😂😂

[tamariouswilliams]

Please explain how as the head coach you can only wear a plain polo or long sleeve shirt with no logo and no hat there’s more coach accessories in ncaa 14 call me picky but as a dynasty player only can I at least get some options lol

[chazharris]

I just honestly play on Varsity now🤷🏽‍♂️....All American and Heisman are impossible to win on the road against top 25 schools

[brianrecoma]

The gameplay is horrible in my opinion. Especially on the defensive side.

[Foolswatching]

You guys enjoy your $70 madden reskin, I’ll keep playing my ncaa 11 on Xbox 360