How to Redshirt in College Football 25 Road to Glory

While utilizing the redshirt system in Dynasty Mode is pretty straightforward, the week to week nature of College Football 25 Road to Glory makes things a bit more challenging. There are plenty of reasons you could try to redshirt, as getting an extra year would allow your player to develop even more before potentially moving on to a Madden 25 Superstar Mode save later this year. If you're struggling to get it to trigger, here's everything we've figured out about how to redshirt in Road to Glory.

How to Redshirt in College Football 25 Road to Glory

Unfortunately, there isn't a direct way to assign yourself as a redshirt during a season of College Football 25 Road to Glory, and this makes ensuring you redshirt into a challenge. As you might expect, the best way to improve your chances will be to start as a lower ranked recruit like Underdog tier and sign with a program that leaves you far down the depth chart. If you pick the right school, you can still redshirt as an Elite prospect.

For quarterbacks, make sure you sign with Texas your first year since you'll be guaranteed to sit behind both Quinn Ewers and Arch Manning so long as neither faces a freak injury during the season. It's also best not to actually spend any skill points you're earning as the season goes on. These raise your rating and put you at risk of a position battle which could move you up the depth chart and force you to play, but you can just spend earned Skill Points the next season after you've gotten the redshirt to trigger.

The best way to see where you stand on a possible redshirt is to check Season Stats in Road to Glory, and then scroll to the right where it says GP for Games Played. If this number goes above four, you won't be given redshirt status for the season.

If you're low on the depth chart, entering to "play" your weekly game is probably going to count towards Games Played even if it uses Super Sim the entire game and you never see yourself take a snap. If you're low on the depth chart and want to lower your chances of that happening, don't play the game and instead hit Advance Week after handling your Weekly Agenda and Practice.

There's still a risk here if you're even at QB2 or close to starting on the depth chart, and any time you get XP after hitting Advance Week it probably means you were used during the simulated game which can be checked via Season Stats. Getting a redshirt to trigger isn't impossible, but it takes some careful planning and a bit of luck, so you can also try creating extra save points in your Road to Glory journey in case you need to reload College Football 25 after a simulated game botched your redshirt chances.