EA Sports College Football 25 continued its release of the video game’s gameplay features on Thursday with its offensive and defensive power rankings.
Every team in the video game has an overall rating, plus one for its offensive and defensive unit. Those ratings are all scaled from 1-100, with each team’s overall rating acting as some sort of average between that of its two units.
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EA Sports’ unveiling of the ratings of the soon-to-be-released video game predictably led to arguing and disagreement amongst fanbases. The video game is effectively dominating the conversation surrounding the sport at the moment, as was just the case with its recent list of the top stadium atmospheres.
From a Wisconsin perspective, the Badgers were predictably left off of the ranking of the top 25 offenses. The program is still transitioning to Phil Longo’s air raid system and did not produce good results in 2023.
But Wisconsin did not only make the video game’s top 25 defenses, but the group is in its top 15. Mike Tressel’s transfer-heavy unit is expected to take another big step forward after a solid, yet unspectacular effort in 2023. The Badgers may have shifted their identity toward the offensive side of the football, but the defense remains the best unit on the team.
Here is where the Badgers fell among EA Sports’ top 15 defenses, including the video game’s 1-100 rating for each unit: