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‘Yes, It’s Really Happening’: EA Sports Drops College Football 25 Trailer

The teaser includes a rendering of the Sooners' flaming arch where players enter the field pre-game in Norman.

Bryce McKinnis

‘Yes, It’s Really Happening’: EA Sports Drops College Football 25 Trailer
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Tuesday was perhaps the most momentous day in the EA-Sports-College-Football-returns saga since its announcement three years ago.

The California-based video game company posted an official teaser trailer for College Football 25, its first edition of the game since NCAA Football 2014, to its YouTube and X accounts Thursday morning.

The trailer featured a narrator sitting at a sewing machine inside the Rose Bowl.

“We’ve got something special for y’all — a little update for our fans from the Big House to the bayou, from Carolina to California. Yeah, it’s about College Football.

“Turns out, we’ve been building, too. So let’s address the big owl in the room. We’ve seen the posts, the predictions, the doubts. We get it. It’s been a minute,” the narrator says as he reveals a black jersey at the sewing table with a white No. 25 and the phrase, “YEAH, IT’S REALLY HAPPENING,” on the name plate. “Let’s just say, this ain’t the only jersey we’ve been working on.”

The trailer also featured flash renderings of college football iconography, including Florida's gator statue and the flaming arch Oklahoma’s players run through pregame.

NCAA Football was discontinued in 2013 after EA Sports, the NCAA and several major conferences were unable to reach agreements on ongoing legal disputes regarding player Name, Image and Likeness within the game.

Murmurs ensued that the game would make a return during the Supreme Court’s ruling to allow student athletes’ compensation for NIL. The game’s X account tweeted a graphic reading “College Football is coming back.” above the EA Sports College Football emblem on Feb. 2, 2021. 

ESPN’s Michael Rothstein first reported in 2022 that the game would drop in summer 2024.

The rendering and narrator’s alluding to the “game the sport deserves” suggest that EA Sports has put what it considers to be extraordinary time into relaunching the game in agreement with Rothstein’s report that the game’s completion date was set so far ahead due to the “enormous undertaking of creating the game from scratch.”

“For them, it's not about rushing to market but making sure the inaugural edition of what they plan to have as a yearly title is up to standard,” Rothstein wrote in 2021.

OU football’s official twitter account responded to the trailer with a video of former Sooners running DeMarco Murray advocating for himself to be the cover of the 2012 edition of the game.

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Bryce McKinnis
BRYCE MCKINNIS

Bryce is a contributor for AllSooners and has been featured in several publications, including the Associated Press, the Tulsa World and the Norman Transcript. A Tishomingo native, Bryce’s sports writing career began at 17 years old when he filed his first story for the Daily Ardmoreite. As a student at the University of Central Oklahoma, he worked on several award-winning projects, including The Vista’s coverage of the 2021 UCO cheer hazing scandal. After graduating in 2021, Bryce took his first job covering University of Tulsa and Oral Roberts University sports for the Tulsa World before accepting a role as managing editor of VYPE Magazine in 2022. - UCO Mass Communications/Sports Feature (2019) - UCO Mass Communications/Investigative Reporting (2021) - UCO College of Liberal Arts/Academic presentation, presidential politics and ideology (2021) - OBEA/Multimedia reporting (2021) - Beat Writer, The Tulsa World (2021-2022) - Managing Editor, VYPE Magazine (2022-2023)

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