SFGate: SPORTS | COLLEGE SPORTS EA admits embarrassing Stanford error in new College Football video game By Alex Simon, Sports Editor July 15, 2024 https://www.sfgate.com/collegesports/article/stanford-ea-college-football-video-game-error-19575693.php?utm_campaign=CMS+Sharing+Tools+%28Premium%29&utm_source=UTMSOURCE&utm_medium=UTMMEDIUM#_=_

 

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EA admits embarrassing Stanford error in new College Football video game

By Alex Simon,

Sports Editor

July 15, 2024

A Stanford Cardinal helmet sits on the sideline during a college football game between the Oregon Ducks and Stanford Cardinal on Sept. 22, 2018, at Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Ore.

A Stanford Cardinal helmet sits on the sideline during a college football game between the Oregon Ducks and Stanford Cardinal on Sept. 22, 2018, at Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Ore.

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One of the most hyped video games in the sports world is back. But just before Bay Area-based video game company Electronic Arts released College Football 25, its first college football game in a decade, the company admitted it made a mistake for the school closest to its headquarters.

The game’s general release is scheduled for Friday, but customers who preordered College Football 25 seemed to gain access around 1 p.m. Pacific time on Monday. In a post celebrating the launch week from earlier Monday morning, EA highlighted many features from the new game, but buried an admission that there are “some slight inaccuracies at launch.”

“Certain schools like Stanford, Western Michigan and Jacksonville State will show with outdated logos,” the post read, “and a small subset of players will have missing or incorrect likenesses initially.”

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Stanford last changed its primary logo in 2015, according to Sportslogos.net, switching the color of the tree in the middle of the red capital S from green to white. A post on X on Monday showed that Stanford’s home page in the game uses a school-official variant of the two-color logo, with a white Stanford S and a red tree. But within actual gameplay, the error is clear: The score bug has the old green tree logo, as visible in game footage posted on YouTube:

EA did not respond to an SFGATE request for comment by the time of publication, but Brian Brownfield, a spokesperson for Stanford’s football program, confirmed the school is aware of the error and in contact with EA.

“We are aware about an incorrect logo used by EA in College Football 25 within various areas of the game,” Brownfield said in a statement emailed to SFGATE. “EA has told us they will fix this during their first round of patches in approximately two weeks.”

Given this is the first iteration of EA’s college football franchise since 2013, and that the developers had to get 134 schools into the system, perhaps such a tiny mistake is forgivable. Still, EA’s global headquarters in Redwood City is just about 10 miles north of Stanford Stadium, which makes the oversight slightly more puzzling, along with the fact that Stanford is the only Power Four school the company acknowledged having an outdated logo for.

Stanford can at least take solace in one key point: EA is paying around six times more to the Cardinal to be “in the game” than their cross-bay rivals Cal are earning.

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July 15, 2024

Alex Simon

SPORTS EDITOR

Alex Simon is the sports editor for SFGate. Born and raised in the Bay Area, Alex has been in journalism for years as an editor, reporter and adjunct professor, most recently working at Bay Area News Group. He has degrees from Elon University and Arizona State University. When not at a sporting event, Alex enjoys playing sports as well as finding a good dive bar, and he loves In-N-Out Burger a bit too much for his own good.

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