EA Sports College Football 25, the highly anticipated college football video game coming out before the upcoming season, will be officially released on July 19, the company announced on Thursday. Full details of the game will be unveiled on Friday.
The cover athletes for the standard version of EA Sports College Football 25, priced at $70, are Colorado two-way star Travis Hunter, Texas Longhorns star quarterback Quinn Ewers and Michigan running back Donovan Edwards.
The "deluxe edition" of EA Sports College Football 25, which gives users early access to the game three days before it officially releases, is $100. The "MVP bundle," which includes a copy of Madden 25, is $150.
A white Arizona helmet, with a blue and red stripe down the middle, is among the several helmets shown on the "deluxe edition" cover.
Electronic Arts Sports (EA Sports) will have an NIL program that will pay college football players, who offer their name, image and likeness, $600 and a copy of EA Sports College Football 25, if they opt in.
EA Sports, a subdivision of video game developer Electronic Arts, will launch an NIL program for the game that will allow college football players at 134 FBS programs nationwide to opt in and offer the company their name, image and likeness for the video game. No FCS schools will be included in the game.
Players who opt-in will receive $600 and a copy of the video game. Each team can have up to 85 players in the video game. Players can opt-in through Learfield’s “COMPASS” name, image and likeness (NIL) app. Players who don’t opt-in, like Texas quarterback Arch Manning, will be converted into a generic avatar. Service academy programs — Air Force, Navy and Army — aren’t allowed to receive NIL compensation, but their players are expected to be a part of the game.
If all 85 players at 134 programs, including Notre Dame, opt-in, EA Sports will spend $6.83 million in NIL money for the first edition of the game.
The Arizona football program announced in February that the Wildcats will be in the college football video game formerly known as NCAA Football, which previously released just over a decade ago and was discontinued following an antitrust class-action lawsuit between former UCLA basketball star Ed O’Bannon and the NCAA for unfairly using student-athletes’ likenesses for EA Sports’ college games.
Although EA Sports never previously used names for players in its NCAA Football or March Madness video games, personal features and jersey numbers were still applied. For example, former Arizona quarterback Nick Foles was “QB No. 8” in the game but had all of Foles’ personal features. The last EA Sports college football video game was NCAA 14, which had Michigan quarterback Denard Robinson on the cover.
EA Sports College Football 25 can be preordered for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.
