NCAA Football covers by year: Full list of college football players on EA Sports cover since 1993

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College football fans have put up with enough bad news about the state of the game in recent years. After realignment dominated the 2023 offseason, the 2024 offseason brought something much more exciting: EA College Football 25.

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The classic NCAA Football video game returned in 2024 and is now in its third year, with all of college football’s biggest stars at your fingertips.

The return of the game means the return of cover athletes, whether it’s one player, multiple, or even several gracing the cover of EA College Football each year. The last decade of college football featured plenty of timeless stars, from Joe Burrow to Christian McCaffrey, but none of them got the opportunity to appear on the cover of a game with the EA Sports edition defunct.

Here’s a look back at which players actually did land on the cover of EA College Football, which has changed up its approach a few times throughout its history.

NCAA Football covers by year

* — The earliest editions of the game were initially named for Bill Walsh.

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** — The 1995 edition of the game did feature players, but they were only small images that were, in some cases, unidentifiable. No standalone cover athlete was chosen until 1996.

*** — EA College Football produced different covers for different gaming systems in both 2008 and 2009.

NCAA Football 27 cover athletes

Oregon QB Dante Moore, Ole Miss RB Kewan Lacy and Miami WR Malachi Toney are on the cover of EA College Football 27.