How to Touch Pass in EA Sports College Football 25

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The key to a solid passing game in EA Sports College Football 25 understanding all the shots in your arsenal. But while the lob pass and bullet pass are fairly effortless to understand, touch pass can be much more complicated. In fact, that’s probably why one of the College Football 25The first challenge in the tutorial involves making a touch pass and requires the player to be very precise about what counts and what doesn’t.

To lend a hand you improve your passing game and overcome this arduous challenge, here’s everything you need to know about how to throw a touch pass IN College Football 25 with each of the control schemes passed.

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What is a touch pass?

To cover the basics, touch pass It’s somewhere between a missile and a lob. On a touch pass, the ball comes off the QB’s hands with more speed and velocity than a lob, keeping the ball lower in the air and in a smaller arc, but also keeping it higher than a missile, making it harder to catch and giving your receiver a little more time to catch the ball in the air.


How to Throw a Touch Ball in College Football 25

In each control scheme, you can perform a touch pass by briefly holding the selected receiver’s button for about half a second. Here’s how performing a touch pass works in each control scheme.

Modernized Passes

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This passing pattern is probably the easiest to execute as a touch pass. A quick hold of the button will fill the pass bar by one to two thirds, giving you a nice little arcing pass – which should end your challenge or get you a pass.

Location and accuracy

A Mizzou Tigers player prepares to catch a pass as the

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Similar to the improved version, a compact press of the button will fill the bar approximately halfway and allow you to perform a touch pass.

Completion of the internship

A Mizzou Tigers player prepares to catch a pass with the Placement pass icon on the screen in College Football 25

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This one is a bit more challenging because the compact hold is very precise, but if the overtaking bar fills three-quarters of the way, then the overtaking was done correctly.

Classic passes

A player prepares to catch a pass in College Football 25 without any graphics on the screen due to the classic passing control scheme

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This is the hardest part, because there is no visual feedback other than the ball itself. You will need to do the same compact hold as in all the other control schemes, and if you do it right, your QB should throw a nice, arcing ball right at your target.


When to make a touch pass

The touch pass is ideal for an intermediate pass to a fairly open receiver or one who has a moderate amount of space in front of him on his route. It won’t necessarily fit into the tight windows that bullet passes are great for, but it gets to the target much quicker than a lob, which should make it much harder for defenses to intercept.


More College Football 25 guides, check out our beginner’s guide or learn how to choose the best pipelines for you.

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