The return of EA Sports ‘College Football 25’ brings on the nostalgia
College Football 25
Here is our living the (sort of) dream, on-the-field play back in EA Sports’ ‘College Football 25.
I play video games. I play a lot of video games and not great at some It’s an EA Sports video game, after all-NCAA Football 14-and a big one at that. This was as close as some of us would ever come to reliving (or creating) the game-winning drive, or winning a national championship.. ‘College Football 25’ comes with wave of nostalgia .
And for those talented enough to play college football, its cool we get our names but I cant imagine a better feeling than being in my dorm room breaking an idiot playing me on NCAA with myself. In the end, we are in this game because it is all about our liking of college football. The fall and Saturdays we love! All the tailgating, pregaming shows. We love to hear coaches yelling on the sidelines and our own teams called out by voices we recognize.
Brad Nessler, Gary Danielson,Laveranues Coles Sr. and Brent Musburger filled my head with Oklahoma Sooners,Bobby Bowden’s Noles (Florida State)and Tom Osborne’s Huskers for much of my childhood. Which brings me back to the issue of Joey Harrington and “NCAA Football 2003,” an act for which I have never forgiven EA Sports. However, the pandemic this year put into perspective just how much I would miss being able to PLAY football at all. So you can imagine my first instinct was to dig out “NCAA Football 14” and reminisce about what life used to be like before I turned 23. As 23) – Nobody Likes You
During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic I drove an hour each way to acquire a copy of “NCAA Football 14” and a PS3 in pandemics warm embrace where any comfortable distraction was welcome. And play. And play.
While playing the game, I was reminded why it became one of my favorite games. About the closest I will come to being at the Cotton Bowl for OU-Texas in that Red River Rivalry, or Ohio Stadium for “The Game” between Ohio State-Michigan, or Birmingham, Alabama and Alabama-Auburn in Iron Bowl.
Being a typical child from my era, my folks were not fortunate enough to have the ability in providing tickets — much less money for travel expenses— when I grew up. It would be another decade before I got to a TV. I was a columnist for The OU Daily the first time I ever attended an Oklahoma football game. I was 23. I will be 37 at the end of this month, and I still have been to bulls on parade in my life less than we attend football games.
But from 1997-2012 I’d guess it was no more than a total of 23 days without either playing EA Sports’ NCAA Football fan or my passion sport. A lot of what I learned to write was for the purpose credentials needed, having an imformed opinion and talking ball all day every single goddamn day.
My high school football team was spread and film watch, for us, only happened once a week when coaches basically told you what to expect from opponents that weekend or where they corrected certain mistakes. But how can you have access to such a tool once these workshops are done? No chance. So we played NCAA.
I learned everything I know about schemes, coverages, protections and yes alerts and hot routes from that game more than I ever did as a player. And I used it. … I still use it. Eyes of the safeties spinning wheels at snap. Recognize a light box. Your first reading jump red route Read high-low.
Lawyers, lawsuits and likeness killed football video games for me. Which is to say, I stopped playing Madden and FIFA as well. The concept of Top Team is foreign to me — as the process spends money on packages that go against my religion –but from when I opened up College Football 25 last Monday, the online PvP element football called out.
