I respect and admire defense in football, but we all know that when it comes to College Football 25, defenses may win championships, but offenses are where the fun is. Running crazy trick plays, lobbing a Hail Mary pass with two seconds left in the game, scrambling for an eternity before throwing a dart across the field to an open receiver, it’s all fantastic.
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Offense is what drives sales for football games. We all know this. As much as I love luring a quarterback into a trap as a ballhawk safety, the offense is where the money is, and College Football 25 knows it.
College football (IRL) is such an offensive game that EA didn’t have to do much to showcase it. The game perfectly highlights the high-flying and explosive offensive production of college games without seeming too much like an arcade-style game.
The offenses are really showcased in College Football 25, but which offenses are the best? We aren’t just going to look purely at which team has the best overall players; we want to break down the actual in-game effectiveness of each team. Which rosters are going to give you the best on-field experience? Let’s take a deep dive into the rosters and ratings of the best offensive teams
1. Alabama
The Tide has the best O-line in the game by far, with a pair of 92 overall interior linemen in Tyler Booker and Parker Brailsford. They also have Kadyn Proctor (90 overall) blocking the blind side and Jaeden Roberts (89 overall) at right guard. These superstars create a nearly impenetrable wall in the passing game and great lanes in the running game.
At QB, you have Milroe, who is the fastest and most explosive running QB in the game with big throw power and decent accuracy, allowing you to open the offense up with the deep pass or keep it on the ground with QB options and scrambles.
Jam Miller and Justice Haynes create a fabulous two-headed backfield, with Miller at 93 speed and 94 change of direction and Haynes with 87 broken tackle and 88 juke move ratings.
Ryan Williams is already a beast on the outside, with 90 overall as a freshman. He’s got 99 agility and 96 speed, and he is a deep threat to take the top off the defense. Germaine Bernard and C.J. Dippre are also great pass catchers who fill out the offense with excellent ratings. Overall, this is the most complete and dominant offense in the game.
2. Ohio State
Will Howard is a serviceable quarterback. He doesn’t have any flashy skills, but he’s accurate and can run a little bit if needed. He’s the perfect game manager for a team that is loaded with talent at nearly every other offensive position. The one position that slightly lacks a star is at tight end, where they deploy a trio of solid guys in Scott Jr. (82 overall), Kaczmarek (81 overall), and Thurman (81 overall).
The offensive line is not as strong as Alabama’s, but their left side is great, with Donovan Jackson (92 overall) at left guard and Josh Simmons (90 overall) at left tackle. The rest of the line is solid, but the left side is really the powerhouse of the run game.
The Buckeyes deploy one of the best running games in the country with the most dynamic duo of running backs in college football. Quinshon Judkins and Treveyon Henderson are top five running backs in the league. Judkins brings the power with a 95 broken tackle rating and 88 trucking. Henderson is the speed back with 94 speed and 94 acceleration.
Their receivers are also one of the best units in the country, with Emeka Egbuka (93 overall) and Jeremiah Smith (90 overall) leading the way as their primary pass catchers, but don’t underestimate Carnell Tate (85 overall) as a big-bodied serious threat target down the field.
3. Miami
The Hurricanes scored the most points per game (43.9) and average yardage (537.2) this season. Their offense in the CFB video game is just as explosive as in real life, with plenty of speed and an air raid style.
Cam Ward leads the offense and sets the tone with a great mix of elite passing skills (97 throw on the run and 91/92/87 short, medium, and deep pass accuracy) and great running skills (86 speed and 87 change of direction). Ward may be the top QB in this year’s draft.
Xavier Restrepo (92 overall) and Jacolby George (85 overall) are the big receivers for Ward to throw to, and Damien Martinez (91 overall) is the leader of the run game, but 84 overall Mark Fletcher Jr. is a nice change of pace back.
Elijah Arroyo is also a solid option in the pass game as well. Jalen Rivers is their only great offensive lineman at 88 overall as a left tackle, but overall, their offensive line is solid and has few liabilities.
4. Oregon
Ever since the days of Chip Kelly and Marcus Mariota, Oregon has been a flashy offense-first school. The team has transformed from an option-heavy West Coast style into more of an air raid offense.
Their offense is built around super senior quarterback Dillon Gabriel, who is probably the most accurate quarterback in the game. With the gold dot ability and a 97/95/89 short, mid, and deep accuracy rating, Gabriel is best used as more of a pocket passer in Oregon’s offense.
With future first-round pick Josh Conerly Jr. (91 overall) guarding his blind side, you can sit in the pocket and sling it to a large cast of ball catchers led by Tysheem “Tez” Johnson (92 overall) and Evan Stewart (90 overall). These two elite receivers are both blazing fast with 95+ speed ratings and can get open with most of their route running ratings over 90.
Jordan James (89 overall) at running back is one of my personal favorites. With 91-speed and an 88-broken tackle rating, this back can do it all. At tight end, you have a really solid option in Terrance Ferguson (88 overall), who provides another great passing option along with WR3 Traeshon Holden (84 overall).
5. Texas
It doesn’t matter if you roll with Quinn Ewers or make a swap at quarterback and bring in Arch Manning; this Texas team is definitely a top-five offense in the game.
You have one of the best blind side blockers in the country with Kelvin Banks Jr. (96 overall), holding down rest of the line that is really good if not great.
At the skill positions, Texas is loaded. With one of the fastest players in the game as your deep threat on the outside in Isaiah Bond, it is ridiculously fun to get him involved in the run game with end-arounds and setting up screens for him. Matthew Golden (88 overall), Silas Bolden (85 overall), Deandre Moore Jr. (84 overall), and Gunnar Helm (89 overall) make up the rest of the receiver/tight end corps that is arguably one of the best in the game.
C.J. Baxter, Jaydon Blue, and Quintrevion Wisner make up the trio of mid-eighty overall backs who lead the run game. They’re all taller backs, 6’0” or taller, but still running with great fluidity and speed.
6. Georgia
The Bulldogs are rated as the second best offense in the game with a 94 overall offensive composite rating. That’s likely due to their great O-line that is ranked only behind Alabama’s line as the best in the game and the duo of Carson Beck and Trevor Etienne being rated so highly in the game.
Beck is a decent game manager in real life and has the potential to develop into a player similar to Bo Nix, but he’s not very fun to play in the game. Beck has 74 speed and 74 agility, as well as a 75 throw on the run. This limits Beck to mainly a pocket passer, which would be fine if he had a ton of 90+ overall skill position guys around him, but he doesn’t.
Arian Smith is probably the most exciting receiver on the Bulldogs with 98 speed and 96 jumping, but his catching and route running ratings are in the mid to low eighties. Dominic Lovett and Dillon Bell have slightly better stats but are slower and less explosive. It’s a solid group for sure, but it doesn’t compare to some of these other big schools in the game.
The team’s real strength comes from the O-line, with guards Tate Ratledge and Dylan Fairchild rated 95 and 91 overall, respectively. Their tackles, Xavier Truss and Earnest Greene III are both 87 overall, as is their center, Jared Wilson. This helps Trevor Etienne (88 overall) be one of the most effective running backs in the game.
7. LSU
You can better believe that LSU is going to be one of the most exciting and popular teams in this franchise for decades to come, even if in real life they are always underwhelming against SEC competition. Their knack for finding big time players especially at the receiver position will keep players choosing the Tigers as their go to team.
At QB Garrett Nussmeier is a slightly more mobile version of Carson Beck, and can easily make all the plays you need him to make behind his elite O-line led by the top left tackle in the Country in Will Campbell who is brutally underrated in the game sitting at only a 95 overall when I think it is fair to say that he should be the second player (behind Travis Hunter) lining up for the 99 club.
The Tigers have two genuine standout studs catching the ball for them in tight end Mason Taylor and receiver Kyren Lacy. Taylor is a 92 overall beast with the platinum sure hands ability and a 92 catch-in traffic rating, making him potentially the most reliable target in the game. Lacy is your prototypical LSU receiver at 6’2”, and with low 90s/high 80s ratings for all his route running and catching stats, Lacy is a great passing option.
They have three other o-linemen besides Campbell, who are rated above 87 overall, which creates time for Nussmeier to find one of his two big options and open up the run game for Caden Durham (85 overall) and Josh Williams (83 overall). They aren’t very highly rated backs, but they can certainly move the football and set up the passing game.
8. Ole Miss
It seems like yet another SEC team, and so is the state of college football, so don’t blame me. The offense doesn’t necessarily stand out when you look at this team at a glance. Sure, they have Jaxson Dart at QB, and he is undoubtedly one of the better QBs in the game, sitting at seventh-best in the game, but does the rest of the offense deserve to be listed as the eighth-best in the game? I say yeah.
They had the second-best passing offense IRL last season, with over 350 yards passing per game. Tre Harris is one of the best receivers in the country, currently rated as the fifth-best receiver in college football. 95 mid-route running, 95 catch, and 93 release is a crazy combination of ratings, and just him and Dart together would already create an elite offensive duo.
You throw in one of the country’s most physically dominant receiving tight ends, Caden Prieskorn, with his 6’6”, 255-pound frame and 84 speed; this is turning into a great passing attack. You throw in a trio of mid-eighty overall receivers behind Harris and a shifty little 86 overall running back in Henry Parrish Jr., and you’ve now got yourself an offense.
In fact they have a ton of great skill position players, 11 WRs, HBs, and TEs above 80 overall. What brings them down in terms of composite offensive value is their O-line, with nobody on the line having an overall above 83. It’s a great offense if you love a quick West Coast passing offense, with little play-action and a lot of outside runs.
9. Penn State
Penn State’s offense is centered around a quartet of stars. Drew Allar leads the ship at quarterback as a really good field general and game manager with playmaking abilities. His safety valve is the second member of the group, Tyler Warren, the star tight end who will likely be the first tight end off the board in this year’s draft. Finally, the quartet is rounded out by two stud running backs, Nicholas Singleton and Kaytron Allen.
Two elite guards, Olaivavega Ioane, and Sal Wormley, are leading the push in the running game. They create the base of a top-ten O-line in the game, allowing you to have a lot of success with Singleton and Allen up the gut and providing just enough time to get the ball over the middle to Warren.
If football was still stuck in the 60’s this offense with their elite run game and great tight end would be rated number one in the game, but the fact is in today’s game it is too one dimensional. The Nittany Lions don’t have a legit deep threat or speed on the outside.
Harrison Wallace III and Liam Clifford are their two big receivers, but neither has 90+ speed or can get great separation, limiting your options as an offense. It’s still a top offense, it’s just slightly limited.
10. SMU
I like an improviser QB with 87 speed and 87+ ratings on all his throw traits. I also like a 92 overall running back who has receiver-like traits and 97 speed. I also like an O-line with four guys over 84 overall and one guy at 90 overall. It’s also nice when you have an 88 overall tight end as well.
SMU has all of those things as well as a trio of serviceable receivers to compliment their impressive run game led by QB Kevin Jennings and RB Brashard Smith. Logan Parr, their 90 overall guard, creates lanes for both runners and keeps Jennings clean as he finds his targets.
SMU had the eighth most yards per game IRL in all of the FBS, and they definitely deserve to be in this top ten despite not being a premiere powerhouse school.
Honorable Mentions
- Colorado
- Kansas
- Arkansas
- Kansas State
- Clemson
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