After an 11-year hiatus, EA Sports decided to bring back their incredibly popular College Football series with College Football 25 thanks to the implementation of compensation for student-athletes introduced in 2021.

EA College Football 25 is a massive hit. EA’s first college football game in over a decade is the top-selling game of the year, and has now become the best-selling sports game ever in the United States. Making its achievement even more impressive, it reached that milestone in less than five months.

EA Sports College Football 25 is now the best-selling sports game ever released on the U.S. market, according to Circana video game sales data from November cited by SBJ’s Jason Wilson, eclipsing 2K Sports’ NBA 2K21.

EA Sports' reboot of its college football franchise has proven wildly successful, setting the mark as the best-selling sports game ever released in the United States market. That's according to

However, more interesting than just being the bestselling game of 2024, EA Sports College Football 25 is also the bestselling sports game in U.S. history, and it ranks within the top 50 bestselling games of all time by U.