EVERYTHING We Know About EA Sports College Football 2025 | Potential Release Date? | May Reveal? 

Listen to full episodes of The Hard Count on PODCAST! Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5Muz6cWNF4Dunh3QOcint6 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hard-count-with-j-d-pickell/id1634039449

1st Gen gamer here: my kid has grown up dreaming of playing college football and being in the video game. Now, he’s going going into his freshman year with a full ride football scholarship at a G5 school and will be in the game the same year. He said he’ll probably be rated in the 50’s as a freshman but that’s fine with him.

I’ve been waiting 11 years for this game I was so mad when they had to stop making college football games I’m getting it day 1

Road to Glory mode has to have Spring Game and transfer portal ❗️

I always have 2 dynasties. One for a g5 and one for my team

They need to bring back every single features from previous games... they have no excuses... you need to be able to create your own team with built-in teambuilder (the web builder would be the best but let's not hope too much with EA) Dynasty needs to include the transfer portal, advanced scouting a recruiting. Need to be able to edit players. Custom playbooks etc.

Can I be honest here, no one GIVES A FUCK who the cover athletes are. Just release the damn game already.

My first dynasty will be with my team, Texas. Basically, to learn the systems and the game in general. Once I do that, it's playing as an OC(assuming you can do that in the new game) for a year and seeing what jobs come open.

Playing with Nebraska will be ELITE!

My thing is getting the coaches skill trees filled out and learning the playbook. You can beat the computer pretty reliably after a while. The most important thing is winning. After 3 seasons you’ve basically done all the work. Every recruit that cares about you is basically signing with you. You’re the best team in your conf already. Rinse and repeat after that. Which is great, I love that. The ultimate goal tho for me was to have ALL my guys in and to fill the those skill trees in. Finding the recruiting gems is addicting tho. I REALLY hope that they keep the coaching trees.

Western Kentucky is about to be the greatest dynasty man has ever witnessed

Idk about you guys, I loved being neck deep in recruiting in dynasty haha.

Man hopefully this game has a good soundtrack like ncaa 06 like some smashing pumpkins today type songs

Neyland is going to look SO GOOD

Can’t wait to have Matt on our show in a couple weeks! Dudes is cool as hell

i gotta agree with him. i love miami but being from the 757, i did a second dynasty with odu in 14. i might do one with jmu in this one

I'm so hyped to run a dynasty mode with the boys. It brings back middle school memories. Wow

Anyone who’s THAT worried about who’s on the cover doesn’t need to buy the game.

Going Irish right away! I hope they bring back the one 2A schools as well.

Teambuilder was an elite feature

I hope they make the WR route more custom. And able to create plays from scratch would be super cool. I’m looking to wreck havoc on all online players. I have too much time invested on the previous years.

I think a neat dynamic would be the more you engage in the transfer portal, the more chance you will have of players transferring out. That is a good way to instill a "culture" dynamic where transfers in may not be normal at a certain school (i.e. Clemson over the last few seasons) so they don't have transfers out a bunch. However, if you are contstatly bringing in 2-3 players and promising them "starter" playing time, the odds of one of your current players wanting to leave should be higher. Because transferring is viewed as much more of an valid option in that school's "culture"

Cant wait for this Madden reskin!

I always start as a coordinator at a small school and go from there.

Relieved knowing Caleb Williams or JJ McCarthy won’t be on the cover

Really hoping they fine-tune the kinds of recruits you find in different regions. There should be more Polynesians in and around California. More speed and athleticism in states like Florida and Georgia. The Midwest should be deep with O-lineman.

I’ve been missing this game for too long. I played the NCAA game and then transferred to Madden. I haven’t enjoyed Madden since 2009, and I have a feeling Madden might try to put out a good game this year. I miss the days of playing at least 3 different football games. Competition needs to come back for sports video games in a bad way.

That was hilarious about putting in for PTO time around the time the game drops. Back in the day, I always took two weeks of vacation from mid to late July, right around the time the game dropped. The purpose was twofold: I'm a high school sports writer, so it's the most dead time of the year for my job. It also gave me two weeks to be a complete lazy bum and play NCAA Football. I still take those two weeks off in the back end of July, but I'm looking forward to being a bum playing a new college football game again. I always hope it rains a lot so I don't feel TOO bad about being indoors for hours in July in Michigan.

On my 360 i have my 1 star school with awful rankings in every school category. Rocking the 06 idaho vandals roster. Building that into a behemoth so fun

I can’t believe we are this close to a CFB game again🤩

I'll probably be saving some money & getting the college football 25 video game.

If it’s anything like madden, don’t expect much.

The guy said there's data out there that ppl won 3-4 year dynasties...wtf, I be running 20+ years dynasties

As it gets closer create a school is all I care about and hours of going through playbooks gonna feel like 2013 again but with better tech

So excited 😭

Eastern Washington U w/ that red turf 🔥

Playing with OSU (OKLAHOMA STATE)

What about the spring game?????

I really hope there's an option to turn off the transfer portal and NIL. I'm 32 and an old school NCAA football video game player. I don't wanna put up with that shit lmao

I grew up in Tuscaloosa, I can't identify with anyone who wouldn't play as the main character in a video game before branching off to the side quests.

Will there be a real coach mode like the previous ncaa games?!

Fun outweighs accuracy for me as far as details, but for gameplay In a sports game, Accuracy needs to be paired with fun. No balance on them two.

And can you create your own schedule schools that you want to play

I’ll be playing with Jacksonville State and Sam Houston 🙏🏿

I want realistic roster management. I want the sweat, I want the pain, I want the glory!

This will be hyped❗️

I just want to know the date we can preorder and date it comes out.

12:33 is Matt Brown low key saying we only start as HC? If not why not start as OC/DC at Ohio St???? Then get that HC at small school......

The transfer portal in this game will be a game changer just like real life! But it's your 🫵🏾 choice! Who to bring in to be the next future star. Can't wait!

I hope this game has the ability to import a Dynasty character into the next Madden of either the same year or the one after. With how accurate the games have been with stats and info, it's entirely possible.

me and my friends have agreed to do online dynasty taking over the mac because 2 friends played for ball state and Kent state

I did my waiting! 11 years of it! IN TUSCALOOSA!

I just want to know will the AI 🤖 just know my recruits name when they come. Also juco players will they actually be good or someone who came from another school because of GPA?

College football games are the best. I still have some of the old ones. I just hope it isn't to much like Madden! Will start with my Irish dynasty but will also do a small school dynasty and work up

Texas St must be apart of your Dynasty plans

First of 1000 seasons will be with the buckeyes baby!!

I. Can. Not. Wait.

JD….i love you brother I’m 48 from Pennsylvania life long husker fan and I could’ve given you more than this guy.

3 year Dynasty is crazy mine always went 10+ years

So help me god if I can’t do a 60 year dynasty

Will Colorado be realistic in the game? You know a lot of talk and no wins..

And what about the home filed advantage? I'm sure they will add the hostile stadium's to play!

I wonder if there will be early enrollee’s

Me , myself , and I was my favorite NCAA track ever .

i wish he would’ve asked about FCS teams

Whenever a pre order comes out it’s gonna damn near be sold out 😭😭 but I gotta have it, been tied to ncaa so long I can’t not get it

Still predicting a July 16th release. They've released it on the 3rd Tuesday of July going all the way back to NCAA '07

I just hope it comes to PC soon after cause I am NOT buying a console just for this lmao.

Put it back on the XBOX 360 platform, and also have all HBCUs... hopefully.

If stadium asks team creator are exactly the same as 11 years ago... I will be sad

Kennesaw State for the win!

I hope they keep the option to create your own university

He sounds like Matt the guy who is always analyzing college sports talking about Colorado etc...

I want the Scott Frost edition on the cover !,

I’m pretty sure Kirk said “ the magnitude of the game will dictate who’s calling the game “

After all these years without a college football game. If you are not playing with your favorite team in Dynasty at first, then you do not have a favorite team lol

This is cool and all but seriously. When is this game coming out? I'm going to be so excited to play as Tennessee, as Army, and as Wyoming. A Commander's Cup edition one year featuring all of the military academies would be really cool

Can't wait

Keep Sanders off a cover

Sanders is the qb cover

out of the 24 national championships I've played in NCAA 14, i played either Army or Navy at least 20 times😭😭😭😭😭😭

This game coming out on PC?

I’m cutting off NIL matter of fact if it’s a option I’m going back to the BCS

Can they at least play for 6 years when you create your player

Wish they could make it compatible with Xbox 360 😢

Can I design my own university for dynasty?

Baylor fan… the cover should just be Nick Saben’s hat.

You should have just put Jay Daniels Joe Brown or something like that like a Heisman people

Hope the crowd and the camera shakes. Anyone who has experienced a big time game knows it gets so loud it sounds like a jet engine behind your ear.

Notre Dame Prestige better be 5stars like the old games

I played my dynasty mode for 15 years with FSU

Can you play on pc?

“Sorry Coach, I can’t commit to you until my mom is named Chancellor of the University, My dad is named Offensive Coordinator, and there is a cease fire in Gaza.” Best wishes, Jontavious Ohtani ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ QB Anchorage High School Anchorage, AK

Take App St or CC to the promise land..

Hoping they put in FCS teams. That would be cool for us little guys. 😂

It’s gonna be Madden with college skins and mascots/stadiums. Actual gameplay physics will be the same. 😴

No cap this game is gonna set records

the sheduer watch celebration should definitely be in the game💯

All I care about is online dynasty! It’s a must have

Will Johnson…… Donovan Edwards from the NATIONAL CHAMPS !!!!