EA Sports College Football 25 has been worth the wait for Big Ten football players

INDIANAPOLIS – College football fans had to wait 11 years − or 4,028 days − to play a new video game representing their favorite athletes and collegiate programs. While many held on to the memories of NCAA Football 14 as long as they could, these same people were certainly ready for a fresh experience.

They wanted current day players, conferences, graphics, rules and more. They got it all July 19, with the release of EA Sports College Football 25.

The biggest difference is that all players (who grant EA Sports permission) will have their name, image and likeness included in the video game. Perhaps no one on Day 1 of Big Ten Football Media Days at Lucas Oil Stadium felt that impact more than Rutgers Linebacker Mohamed Toure.

Hailing from Pleasantville, New Jersey, Toure graduated from a high school with less than 1,000 students in a town with slightly more than 20,000 residents. More than that, the high school has produced just one NFL player in its history.

Dino Hall played 64 games for the Cleveland Browns between 1979 and 1983, and his college football days at Rowan University came almost 20 years before the first college football video game was released in 1993 on the Sega Genesis.

Even for the 21 major college football video games to be distributed before College Football 25, none of them showcased the name, image or likeness of its student-athletes. As Toure’s ‘MT’ chain glistened, he expanded what it means to be a part of the first college sports video game in 11 years.

“I don’t think people understand how much that means to me,” Toure told IndyStar. “Coming from where I come from, there’s not a lot of Division I football players that play on the level that I play on. For kids in my community to be able to play with me, somebody that’s from their same community, somebody that they watched go to the school…

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Author : Indianapolis Star

Publish date : 2024-07-26 08:40:36

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