The best College Football 25 sliders and how to use them

College Football 25
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College Football 25 sliders enable you to make a game that's already brilliantly playable even better – and more realistic, too. College Football 25 features a host of parameters that can be tweaked to your liking, such as player speed, blocking and the frequency at which various penalties are called. For a strong challenge with realistic results, input the key numbers from GR’s College Football 25 sliders guide.

How to input College Football 25 sliders

College Football 25

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Using Sliders to tweak your gameplay experience is fairly straightforward. Jump into the main menu, then move your way across the top bar to Settings. Select Game Settings, then match the headings on the list below to the tabs in the horizontal menu bar. 

If a value isn’t listed here, keep it at default. For instance, special teams are challenging enough as it is, especially during road matches, so all Player Skill settings for kicking and punting stay at 50. Although that element of the game is also covered in our College Football 25 tips guide.

Best College Football 25 sliders for realism 

College Football 25

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Okay, here we go. The best College Football 25 sliders below should produce realistic stats, but also give you a significant gameplay challenge, and feel authentic in terms of match flow. For example, you’ll see fewer interceptions than on default settings, but more fumbles. 

Naturally, controlling anyone on the College Football 25 best teams and College Football 25 best players list is going to give you a significant advantage, whichever sliders you use. 

Game Options

  • Difficulty: Heisman
  • Quarter Length: 11 Minutes 
  • Play Clock: On
  • Accelerated Clock: On
  • Minimum Play Clock Time: 20 Seconds
  • Defensive Ball Hawk: Off
  • Defensive Heat Seeker Assist: Off
  • Injuries: 35
  • Fatigue: 80
  • Player Speed Parity Scale: 85

Player Skill

  • QB Accuracy: 36
  • Pass Blocking: 50
  • WR Catching: 40
  • Run Blocking: 18
  • Ball Security: 32
  • Reaction Time: 55
  • Interceptions: 30
  • Pass Coverage: 55
  • Tackling: 37

Penalties

  • Offside: 65
  • False State: 85
  • Offensive Holding: 60
  • Facemask: 80
  • Illegal Block in the Back: 60
  • Roughing the Passer: 50
  • Defensive Pass Interference: 95

CPU Skill

  • QB Accuracy: 32
  • Pass Blocking: 52
  • WR Catching: 38
  • Run Blocking: 100
  • Ball Security: 32
  • Reaction Time: 60
  • Interceptions: 21
  • Pass Coverage: 62
  • Tackling: 43
  • FG Power: 50
  • FG Accuracy: 44
  • Punt Power: 58
  • Punt Accuracy: 80
  • Kickoff Power: 54

College Football 25 sliders credits

College Football 25

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I’ve been playing the game non-stop to put together our College Football 25 Recruiting guide and review, and tailor the sliders above. But I didn’t start from scratch: I’ve also found other user-made slider sets to be useful. To that end, I need to credit canes21 and BarflytheOwl at Operation Sports and for submitting their findings to the wider world.

Ben Wilson

I'm GamesRadar's sports editor, and obsessed with NFL, WWE, MLB, AEW, and occasionally things that don't have a three-letter acronym – such as Chvrches, Bill Bryson, and Streets Of Rage 4. (All the Streets Of Rage games, actually.) Even after three decades I still have a soft spot for Euro Boss on the Amstrad CPC 464+.