User:Bryce Tate/EA Sports College Football 25

NCAA College Football 2024 Video Game
Following the release of the last made NCAA football video game within the series that started in 1993 and concluded in 2013, with NCAA Football 2014. Electronic Arts (EA) settled a lawsuit brought by former college football players who argued their name, image, and likeness (NIL) were used without permission or compensation. The game may not have featured players real names. However, the players resembled the players in every other way. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), whose brand was licensed by EA, had a history of resisting attempts to financially compensate its athletes. Well attempting to be able to pay student athletes. As a part of the settlement, EA announced it would stop producing college football video games.

The 2021 United States Supreme Court case NCAA. v. Alston deemed the NCAA's precedent of avoiding compensating athletes impermissible. Making it possible for student athlete to receive Financial compensation. Following the ruling, the NCAA reversed its position, creating rules for likeness compensation.

Thus creating a jump start to begin and push forward and re-start NCAA Football video games. In 2023, after the implementation of these changes, EA announced that player likenesses would be featured in their next college football game. In February 2024, EA revealed that they would pay each athlete a flat $600 payment and a copy of the game for allowing the NIL to be used; athletes who decline to allow EA to use their identity will be replaced in-game with a generic, auto-generated character and EA would block players from creating and inserting the athlete into the game manually. By early March 2024, EA had secured NIL opt-ins from over 10,000 athletes; Similarly, the Heisman Trophy and the various bowls will appear in the game, but the National College Football Awards Association requested that their awards and trophies not be included.

Development
EA announced that the College Football series would return in February 2021. EA Orlando, developers of the Madden NFL series, was announced to be creating the game.

On February 15, 2024, EA confirmed the game's title as EA Sports College Football 25 and revealed a trailer for it, promising to provide further information in May 2024. The trailer had 1.4 million views on Youtube.

On February 22, 2024, EA Sports confirmed in a post on X that all 134 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) programs would be featured in EA Sports College Football 25 but the 128 Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) programs would not be included at launch. That same day, ESPN's lead college football commentary team of Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit announced that they would be featured as commentators. Herbstreit was a commentator in EA's original NCAA Football series until its hiatus after NCAA Football 14. ESPN studio host Kevin Connors confirmed his involvement on X the same day, along with ESPN College Football studio and game analyst Jesse Palmer and former College GameDay analyst David Pollack.

On March 4, 2024, Unlike 10,000 plus other players in college football, Arch Manning, of the University Texas, has reportedly chose to opt out of being apart of the EA Sports NCAA Football 25 video game, becoming the first to do so. According to Orangebloods' Anwar Richardson, saying Manning is focused on "playing football on the field".

Rumors have it that we should expect an announcement of the game's release date in early May of 2024. Which the release date is also rumored to be in the later months of the summer 2024. According to Brian Mazique, a contributor to Forbes magazine of the video games department.

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