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We’re less than two weeks away from the release of EA Sports “College Football 25.” With it comes the end of an 11-year drought for the game, and the buzz has been palpable as the long-dormant college football video game community awakes from its slumber. The first gameplay trailer has garnered 2.9 million views on Youtube and subsequent videos showing gameplay, sights and sounds and a look at dynasty mode have all been seen well over a million times.
With such a large, passionate audience tuned in for every update they can get on the game, EA Sports knew it would court some controversy when it released its team ratings. Fans flocked to social media to debate the game’s top 25 offenses, defense, places to play and overall teams. As providers of preseason prognostications ourselves, the CBS Sports staff wanted to get in on the fun.
We asked our college football team for their biggest takeaways from the team ratings release.
Unfair punishment for Missouri
I can’t believe that I, a grown adult, am taking exception with a video game ranking, but it’s July and I am weeks away from entering hibernation with “CFB 25.” I am indeed invested, so I cannot let this slight against Missouri go unnoticed. Yes, the Tigers have the No. 9 offense (89 OVR), according to EA Sports, but they’re nowhere to be found among the top 25 teams in the game’s power rankings.
Missouri, which won 11 games last year and returns the combo of Brady Cook and Luther Burden III, is unequivocally one of the top 25 best teams in the country. I mean, if Colorado is, then so is Mizzou. The Tigers are likely being dragged down by a lower defensive score — they do not rank among the top 25 defenses, per EA — but I have more real-world confidence in coach Eli Drinkwitz’s…
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Author : Christopher Dukes
Publish date : 2024-07-06 13:32:51
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