You need to play this new College Football 25 game mode

One of the things we wondered about when EA Sports announced the return of its college football franchise was whether it would have the crazy minigames from the old days. It absolutely does, and there's an argument to be made that bowling is the best one.

It's not the one that's necessarily going to improve your game the most. Modes such as Option Attack or Target Passing are probably better for that. But for good old-fashioned fun, which is the reason we play video games, bowling is hard to beat.

Scoring a touchdown on the first play is considered a "strike" in this mini-game. Scoring on subsequent plays or getting yards yields spares and other bowling type scores. It's way more fun than it has any right to be.

But Brian, you're probably saying, football already keeps score and has its own system for that. It's one of those things that doesn't need to make sense, it just needs to be fun and that mission is accomplished here. I never knew I needed or wanted a bowling mini-game mixed in with my College Football 25 experience.

There's even another bowling mini-game that adds bumpers for more challenge. I suspect this will be a house rules at some point. House rules are the best when they make you play the game in a completely different way. This is one of the ways College Football 25 keeps it fun, different than a reskinned Madden, yes, silly in all the best ways.

College Football 25 is available now on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.