EA Sports Got it Wrong in Their Top-25 Toughest Places to Play Rankings for College Football

EA Sports College Football 25 will release on July 19th. College Football Players will financially benefit from the release of the game, and so will the schools. To ramp up for the release, EA Sports is releasing different rankings pertaining to the game.

This week, they released the Top-25 Toughest College Football Environments to play in.

I know I’m biased, but the fact that Carter-Finley Stadium wasn’t included in this Top-25 is criminal.

I’m not alone. Bud Elliott of 247Sports agrees.

The toughest places to play in college football, according to @BudElliott3 👀

1) LSU

2) Florida

3) Utah

Full Top 10 ⬇️ @Cover3Podcast pic.twitter.com/yM67xeGbbk

— CBS Sports College Football 🏈 (@CBSSportsCFB) June 25, 2024

So does CFB Report.

Ross Taylor, who is the Assistant Athletic Director for Football Communications at Clemson, shared the following data, ranking which teams have drawn most opponent false starts drawn in home games the last 5 & 10 years…aka these places are loud and distracting environments to play in.

In case our friends at @EASPORTSCollege want to add a relevant data point to their Toughest Places to Play formula, here are rankings on the most opponent false starts drawn in home games the last 5 & 10 years. (Thanks to research assistance from the team at @StatsPerform!) pic.twitter.com/LLlxOhvx2C

— Ross Taylor (@ClemsonFBRoss) June 26, 2024

NC State ranks 4th over the past 5 years, and 5th over the past 10 years.