College Football 25: EA Shares Teams With Biggest Home Field Advantage

EA’s development team went to great lengths to ensure that home-field advantage will be real in the upcoming College Football 25.

Tons go into the HFA formula. According to EA, the following factors were considered when determining which schools had the biggest HFA. They had the toughest stadiums to play in: “historical stats such as home winning %, home game attendance, active home winning streaks, team prestige, and more.”

Here are the rankings for the most challenging places to play in College Football 25.

1. Kyle Field – Texas A&M
2. Bryant-Denny Stadium – Alabama
3. Tiger Stadium – LSU
4. Ohio Stadium – Ohio State
5. Sanford Stadium – Georgia
6. Beaver Stadium – Penn State
7. Camp Randall Stadium – Wisconsin
8. Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium – Oklahoma
9. Doak S. Campbell Stadium – Florida State
10. Ben Hill Griffin Stadium – Florida
11. Autzen Stadium – Oregon
12. Memorial Stadium – Clemson
13. Neyland Stadium – Tennessee
14. Jordan-Hare Stadium – Auburn
15. Williams-Brice Stadium – South Carolina
16. Michigan Stadium – Michigan
17. Lane Stadium – Virginia Tech
18. Rice-Eccles Stadium – Utah
19. Darrell K. Royal – Texas Memorial Stadium – Texas
20. Kinnick Stadium – Iowa
21. Notre Dame Stadium – Notre Dame
22. Spartan Stadium – Michigan State
23. Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium – Arkansas
24. Albertsons Stadium – Boise State
25. Davis Wade Stadium – Mississippi State

HFA will be affected by player abilities, as seniors can navigate more arduous environments better than green freshmen or players who have played little during their college careers.

Pre-snap recognition is a significant aspect of gameplay, and home-field advantage significantly impacts the effectiveness of your players on both sides of the ball.

EA shared two short videos in their Gameplay Deep Dive that demonstrate a little of the atmosphere and impact of HFA.

The modifiers have hooks in pre- and post-snap situations. The squiggly lines and distorted play art are one iteration of HFA, but there’s also the potential for disabled audibles and hot routes with decreased effectiveness.

Players’ confidence and composure concepts are also directly tied to HFA. The Stadium Pulse Meter is perhaps the most significant barometer, but there are also other indicators on the screen, like screen shakes.

Audio doesn’t hinder your gameplay experience, as the user has complete control over that aspect, but EA’s sound team has made sure stadiums have unique mixes to capture what it’s like to be there for a game.

This list might seem a bit shallow, and it would be in most cases, but because of how intense the presentation is in EA College Football 25 and the actual impact HFA has on gameplay, the information is more than fluff.

College Football 25 releases on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on July 19.