College Football 25 Adaptive AI explained and best option

Adaptive AI in College Football 25 can drastically affect the experience in Dynasty, meaning players will need to adjust to the AI quickly.

EA gave fans autonomy to create their ideal experience in College Football’s Dynasty mode. Using Team Builder, you can create jerseys, stadiums, and players for a custom school. Alongside this, conferences can also be relocated, and opponents can be perfectly balanced by adjusting different sliders.

Adaptive AI also plays a role in how difficult opponents are on the football field.

How does Adaptive AI work?

Adaptive AI is a setting in Dynasty mode that dictates how a CPU responds and adjusts throughout a game.

The developers previously explained how the feature works in Madden 24: “Our run defense AI will now have the ability to read repeated plays ran by the offense and react in a more realistic manner,”

EA said. “Defenses will start to key in on repetitive offensive run plays. If a team is running the same play out of the same formation, that is a tell to the defense. Once the defense keys in on this, defenders will play their run-fit and start hitting their gap as soon as the ball is snapped. This will not apply on a play-action run.”

When EA detailed Adaptive AI in Madden, it also uses ‘Alert’ Logic. Meaning, that computer-controlled teams will make audibles on defense and offense to pass or run in appropriate situations. Players will get punished if they repeatedly use the same play.

The feature in College Football 25 also expands upon what EA used in Madden. CFB 25 players in Dynasty can choose to have Adaptive AI as Balanced, Aggressive, or Conservative.

Best Adaptive AI setting to use in College Football 25

Aggressive is the best Adaptive AI setting to use in College Football 25. Some players have complained that the Heisman difficulty is too hard, so adjusting Adaptive AI to Aggressive with the All-American difficulty selected is a good in-between.

Aggressive Adaptive AI computer-controlled opponents will learn on the fly and force players to adjust and leave their comfort zone when choosing plays.

In addition, Aggressive AI forces players to outsmart their opponent and make audibles to win the ever-changing chess match like an actual football coach does. Using the same plays repeatedly gets stale and fails to provide enough challenge.

That’s everything you need to know about Adaptive AI in College Football 25. For more on the game, check out our guides for the best offense & defense playbooks, redshirting explained, the best pipelines, all teams in College Football 25, and how to enable play selection in Road to Glory.