{"id":225410,"date":"2024-05-29T19:02:14","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T19:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/29\/college-football-25s-lightest-touch-a-ticket-is-its-most-sentimental\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:18:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:18:30","slug":"college-football-25s-lightest-touch-a-ticket-is-its-most-sentimental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/29\/college-football-25s-lightest-touch-a-ticket-is-its-most-sentimental\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football 25’s lightest touch \u2014 a ticket \u2014 is its most sentimental"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When players return to EA Sports College Football 25 this July<\/a>, they\u2019ll make a familiar choice when they first boot into the game: Pick your favorite school. From there, they\u2019ll get a main screen customized to that college, with its colors, logos, and pictures of the team in action.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s one tiny little feature that had me changing the favorite school setting repeatedly in my hands-on-time with College Football 25 at a preview event EA Sports hosted last week in Orlando. And that\u2019s The Ticket.<\/p>\n

In the lower right corner of the screen, amongst the other visual checks to the university\u2019s football tradition, is a mock ticket stub mentioning the school\u2019s home stadium. Look a little closer, and you\u2019ll see this is a reference to its greatest, or at least its most memorable, game played there.<\/p>\n

The tickets are the brainchild of producer Ben Haumiller, and I remember him talking about this with me almost two years ago. Ben was almost giddy, blue-skying some of the all-timers and no-brainers that these tickets would reference. (\u201cI gave Miami a Wide Right<\/a>,\u201d Haumiller said, referencing one of two infamous games Florida State lost to the Hurricanes on a missed field goal.) However small it may seem, its another nod that, taken together, adds up to a huge affirmation of a player\u2019s fandom<\/a>, if not their own collegiate experience.<\/p>\n

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For N.C. State, where I graduated in 1995, Ben actually selected a game we both attended<\/a>: a thundering 2012 upset of Florida State, where Ben graduated. We were at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh, N.C., where Ben was showing me how EA Sports collected crowd audio<\/a> for the NCAA Football series it published at the time.<\/p>\n

State beat the No. 3 Seminoles 17-16, coming back from a 16-0 halftime deficit to shut out FSU in the second half and mount another inexorable Wolfpack comeback. The upset win resulted in one exuberant State fan getting memed into the stratosphere:<\/p>\n

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The ticket Ben used for State\u2019s home screen is that guy\u2019s seat. It\u2019s so perfect, it damn near brings tears to my eye.<\/p>\n

Among the other big games I saw, California, of course, seemed to be the oldest \u2014 1982\u2019s \u201cThe Play\u201d against rival Stanford.<\/a> Ben gave his alma mater \u201cThe Choke at Doak<\/a>,\u201d That was the 1994 game, in the last year when it was possible to have a tie, when the No. 7 Seminoles behind Danny Kanell and Warrick Dunn, scored 28 points in the fourth quarter to claim a draw with their despised rivals, the No. 4 Florida Gators.<\/p>\n

Much as Ben would prefer to give his team an outright victory, if there\u2019s a \u201cHarvard Beats Yale 29-29\u201d<\/a> moment in major college football, this is it. \u201cWe know we\u2019re going to hear in forums, \u2018Hey, why didn\u2019t you use this game, it\u2019s a better one,\u2019\u201d Haumiller said. \u201cAnd if so, we\u2019ll look at it, and we can change it.\u201d<\/p>\n

I gave him one immediately. In the build I saw, Navy\u2019s \u201cticket\u201d was against rival Army, a game that has been played on a neutral field all but five times in 130 years. But in 1984, at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, a going-nowhere 3-5-1 Midshipmen crew stunned undefeated and No. 2 South Carolina 38-21, erasing the Gamecocks from the national championship picture with just one game left. The pall of that loss still hangs over Sakerlina\u2019s frustrated football program to this day.<\/p>\n

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How were College Football 25\u2019s \u2018Ticket\u2019 games determined?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Haumiller could only guess at the hours he put into researching this, but as a through-and-through college football fan, he considered it time well spent, personally. \u201cFor some of the teams, especially the ones newer to FBS [Football Bowl Subdivision, the top tier] it was a little tough,\u201d Haumiller said. \u201cSo I would look for close scores in rivalry games and use those.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another limiting factor is it has to be a home win; shocking upsets recorded by Appalachian State in 2007 against Michigan, and Georgia Southern against Florida in 2013, both came on the road (making them even more shocking). And Boise State\u2019s electrifying, kitchen-sink playbook victory over Oklahoma in 2006, which landed quarterback Jared Zabransky on the cover of NCAA Football 07, was a bowl game played in Arizona.<\/p>\n

Still, when College Football 25 arrives July 19 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, take a few minutes to change your favorite team, and just look at some of the tickets that are presented on their main screens. It\u2019s a worthwhile trip deep into the record book, whether or not you\u2019re a fan of the team.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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