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UCLA Football Players React to EA Sports’ College Football 25 Video Game – Press Telegram

UCLA Football Players React to EA Sports’ College Football 25 Video Game – Press Telegram

UCLA football helmet. (file photo)

The 2024-25 virtual season kicked off this week with the release of EA Sports’ College Football 25 video game.

Returning for the first time since 2013, the game features 85 rosters representing the 134 NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision teams. The game has been in development for the past three years, but has had to quickly adapt and move with the times as the landscape of the sport has drastically changed with conference realignment, the transfer portal, the 12-team College Football Playoff format, and more.

The Bruins’ roster featured the likenesses of at least 71 real players from the game before being supplemented with a few randomly generated players.

Receiver J.Michael Sturdivant is the highest rated Bruin in the game with an overall rating of 88.

“I’ve played the game and thrown it to myself a lot,” Sturdivant said at an event hosted by Men of Westwood to celebrate the game’s release. “I really like my speed in the game, I feel like I can get the ball to myself a lot. Everyone wants their rating to be a little higher, but I like mine.”

Several other Bruins were equally excited, like Sturdivant, about the opportunity to compete in the contest, but jokingly explained that they would have liked to have had a higher rating.

“I can’t complain too much,” quarterback Justyn Martin said. “But my speed is ridiculous. A 73 speed is ridiculous. I’ve got linebackers that are faster than me. I’ve got other quarterbacks that are faster than me … but everything else, I can’t complain about.”

With a speed rating of 81, starting middle linebacker Oluwafemi Oladejo is among the players faster than Martin.

“We talked about it earlier today,” Oladejo said, laughing. “I told him it must be true, but all joking aside, it’s just fun and games.”