It's HERE! Our EA College Football 25 early review! + Pat White joins the show
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
The wait is finally over. After a decade-long absence, EA Sports' next installment of their college football franchise is here! Chris Vannini and Ari Wasserman share their early review of EA College Football 25. The duo dissect the gameplay, graphics, playbooks, Dynasty Mode, Road to Glory, recruiting and much, much more! Later in the show, former West Virginia quarterback and NCAA video game cheat code, Pat White, joins the show along with The Athletic's Chris Kamrani! Pat voices his thoughts on the game's cultural impact, and how he fits into that picture. Plus, a look back at some of his favorite moments as a Mountaineer.
Read Chris Kamrani's Pat White/WVU story: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5622408/2024/07/08/college-football-25-west-virginia-top-teams/
Watch the review on YouTube: https://youtu.be/e99aNwH3_-4
Rundown:
- Our early review of EA Sports College Football 25! (:15)
- One big takeaway (2:15)
- Gamplay, graphics and playbooks (4:45)
- Dynasty Mode + recruiting realism (17:00)
- Road to Glory and more (30:30)
- Criticisms (39:15)
- Pat White joins the show! (46:45)
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Host: Chris Vannini (@ChrisVannini)
With: Ari Wasserman, Chris Kamrani & Pat White (@AriWasserman, @chriskamrani, @patcwhite)
Executive producer (audio + video): Cam Molina (@commentatorcam)
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| 0:48.8 | Welcome to Until Saturday. My name is Chris Vanini. I'm joined here by Ari Wasserman. And we are here to talk about what everyone's been waiting for, EA Sports College Football 25. |
| 0:56.8 | We've played it. |
| 0:58.2 | At the time this podcast is being recorded, we've spent the weekend playing at Ari and I have. |
| 1:03.4 | We're excited to talk about it with all of you. |
| 1:05.7 | We're going to talk gameplay, graphics, Dynasty Mode to Glory, and a lot more. |
| 1:11.4 | We also have an interview with college football real life and video game legend Pat White. |
| 1:18.0 | Ari and our colleague Chris Camerani will talk with him about what it was like being in the game |
| 1:22.2 | and the role the game played in his college football legacy. |
| 1:26.5 | Camerani also has a really good story on Pat |
| 1:28.6 | White and those West Virginia teams up on theathletic.com. Ari, how's it going, man? |
| 1:35.7 | Good. So a little background information, we thought there was a chance we were going to get |
| 1:39.8 | the game on Friday. So I drove up from Dallas to Chris's house in the north suburbs of Dallas, |
| 1:48.3 | you know, just excited to play. And then we ended up not getting the game until Friday night. |
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