Media Day events before a college football season kicks off are always entertaining, quite simply because you often don’t know what you’re going to get into.
At the top, there of course is injury news, talk of offseason improvement, and outlooks for what the upcoming season might hold. But beyond that? The Wild West awaits.
Tattoo talk? Yep. Discussions about eye black and how much is too much? Why not?
And then you can never shy away from the minivan reviews with Traeshon Holden.
One thing at the top of my mind all day, though, was the new era we’re in where EA Sports College Football 25 is never far from any of our minds. When hanging around a bunch of football players and beat reporters who are connected to the sport of college football every day, we’re either thinking back to our last game of CFB25 or preparing for our next matchup.
For us reporters, playing the game with our favorite schools still resembles how things were back when NCAA 14 was popular. But for members of the Oregon Ducks, playing with the video game versions of themselves is a whole new experience.
So I had to bring it up a few times.
What’s it like being in the game? Do you play with the Ducks every game? Do you scheme plays to anyone but yourself? What is your go-to uniform combination? Who is the best gamer on the team? More importantly, who is the second-best gamer on the team, because I know you’re lying when you say yourself…
As you would expect, I got plenty of colorful answers from all of the players I talked to about the subject. Here’s a roundup of what was said:
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Who’s the best?: “I feel like I am. Not even being funny. It’s just me. Rod(rick Pleasant) is nice, Tysheem is great. They’re not bad. I just feel like I’m at a different level. I don’t know, I just like me.”
Who do you play with?: “Us, for sure. I play with Alabama sometimes.”
Oregon vs. Oregon…
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