MLB The Show 25 Has Learned The Best Lesson From College Football 25

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Sports video games keep trying to balance the excitement of professional leagues and the lasting charm of college sports, and might have gotten it. While pro athletes often take the spotlight, more and more players want a deeper, more personal connection to the sport virtually, which comes from college competitions. This desire for a real, relatable experience has been increasingly acknowledged in recent years.

was a game-changer with its Road to Glory mode, showing how to create engaging single-player experiences tied to the college experience. is learning from that success and applying similar ideas to its Road to the Show mode and its new progression system. This game is making big improvements by focusing on what players care about.

introduces exciting changes to its Road to the Show mode by adding eight real college baseball teams: LSU, Texas, UCLA, Vanderbilt, TCU, Cal State Fullerton, South Carolina, and Tennessee. This means players now have a chance to experience college baseball, which adds more realism to the mode by letting players go through the recruiting process and choose a school based on various factors like exposure and skill development.

MLB The Show 25 is making a number of changes and improvements to the series staple Diamond Dynasty mode with new ways to play and earn rewards.

Previously, players could skip college or have a very basic college experience. Now, choosing one of these colleges affects how a created player's skills develop and how ready they are for the MLB draft. For instance, a player might pick LSU for its strong visibility to scouts, knowing that doing well there could help them get drafted higher, or they could choose a school that focuses more on skill improvement.

Team

Conference

School

LSU Tigers

SEC

Louisiana State University

Texas Longhorns

Big 12

University of Texas at Austin

UCLA Bruins

Pac-12

University of California, Los Angeles

Vanderbilt Commodores

SEC

Vanderbilt University

TCU Horned Frogs

Big 12

Texas Christian