EA revealed the release date for College Football 25 on Thursday, May 16, along with its pre-order offers. One of the pre-order offers strongly ties into the release of Madden 25.
College Football will be released on July 19. Users who pre-order the game will get three days of early access beginning on July 16.
Traditional pre-orders will receive three Ultimate Team incentives: the Alma Mater pack, which allows users to choose 1 of 134 player items. That’s exciting as every FBS school in the game could have a player represented in Ultimate Team.
A Cover Athlete pack gives users a choice between Colorado’s Travis Hunter, Texas’ Quinn Ewers, or Michigan’s Donovan Edwards. Lastly, a Bring Glory Home uniform item will likely allow users to customize the uni for their Ultimate Team squad in College Football 25.
The EA Sports MVP Bundle has users pre-order both games, and it offers incentives for both games’ versions of Ultimate Team. Take a look at the X post from the game’s official account.
In addition to the exclusive College Football 25 pre-order incentives, users who buy into the MVP bundle also receive 4600 college football points and one Heisman Hopeful player item.
Users can choose one out of five players. Based on the name, we’re likely looking at five current college stars who are on the shortlist of Heisman candidates for the 2024 season.
That concept is exciting as it adds seasonal relevancy and more spotlight on the current crop of college stars.
Madden users will receive three days early access with this offer. Madden 25 is rumored to release on August 19, meaning early access begins on August 16.
Madden users would also receive 4500 Madden points, an AKA player item, and a cover athlete player item (contingent on the player named as the face of the game for the upcoming version). Two strategy items, an elite player item, specific Ultimate Team challenges during early access, Superstar Drip Gear, and Legendary XP boost, are also included.
Most of these items and offers are related to the Ultimate Team, which makes sense monetarily, but we’re waiting to see if there are any specific gameplay-related tie-ins between the two games.
Will users be able to graduate Ultimate Team cards from College Football 25 to Madden 25, and fingers crossed, will we see a return of the export/import draft class feature?
Expect an answer to all these questions in the next few weeks. A full reveal for College Football 25 is scheduled for Friday, May 17.
There is a chance all of our outstanding questions about the game will be answered then.
