EA Sports College Football 25 unveils ranking of toughest places to play in college football

Where does Wisconsin’s Camp Randall Stadium land on the list?

EA Sports is back in the headlines with the much-anticipated release of ‘College Football 25’ now only 24 days away.

Facts and game previews have been trickling out for the last few months as excitement grows for the game’s release. The news drops continued on Tuesday when the game released its ranking of the top 25 toughest places to play in college football.

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Believe it or not, fanbases across the sport have opinions on where their stadium should rank. Those views are being expressed, as Ross Dellenger’s post sharing the rankings reached more than 100,000 views in its first 25 minutes of existence.

Calling EA Sports’ marketing job a success would be an understatement. College football fans from across the country are predictably enthusiastic about getting to play the first college football video game in more than a decade. The EA Sports team has done an effective job of building up that excitement.

Before we finally reach the release date of July 19, let’s take a look the video game’s ranking of the toughest places to play in college football. The rankings, according to Dellenger, ‘factor in historical home win percentage, home attendance’ and more.

Wisconsin’s Camp Randall Stadium made the list:

Ranking the toughest road environments to play in after the Big Ten’s new additions

Ranking the 18 Big Ten stadiums by gameday atmosphere:

Welcome to a new era of college football, and a new era in the Big Ten. Nowadays when we go through the conference for recruiting rankings or power rankings there are 18 programs to address, not 14.

Eventually, that number will grow again and it will take days to make it to the end. But 18 is still manageable, especially when there is a material change in the ranking.

That’s the case here with the best stadium gameday environments in the conference. USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington all bring strong football teams to the mix, but where are their home venues ranked amongst the rest of the Big Ten?

A necessary note: I considered ranking Northwestern’s Ryan Field No. 1 on this list solely due to the grass length and high school atmosphere. But I thought better. So here is every Big Ten home venue ranked by gameday atmosphere: