How to throw a touch pass in College Football 25

One key to a solid passing game in EA Sports College Football 25 is understanding all the throws in your arsenal. But while the lob pass and the bullet pass are pretty easy to understand, the touch pass can be a lot more complicated. In fact, that’s probably why one of College Football 25’s first tutorial challenges asks you to throw a touch pass, and is a bit of a stickler for what counts and what doesn’t.

To help you upgrade your passing game, and get through that pesky challenge, here’s everything you need to know about how to throw a touch pass in College Football 25 with each of the passing control schemes.

What is a touch pass?

Just to cover the basics, a touch pass is in-between a bullet and a lob. With a touch pass, the ball comes off the QB’s hands with more zip and speed than a lob, keeping the ball lower in the air with a smaller arc, but also keeps it higher up than a bullet, making it harder to pick off and giving your receiver a little bit more time to snag the ball out of the air.

How to throw a touch pass in College Football 25

In any control scheme, you can throw a touch pass by briefly holding the button of your chosen receiver for about half a second. Here’s how throwing a touch pass works with each control scheme.

Revamped passing

This passing scheme is probably the easiest to pull off touch passes with. A brief button hold will fill the passing bar between one third and two thirds full, which will give you a nice little arcing pass — which should complete your challenge or have you nail the pass.

Placement and Accuracy

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Similar to revamped, a short button press on this one will fill the bar around halfway and should give you a touch pass.

Placement passing

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This one is a little harder because the short hold is very precise, but if the passing bar fills up to three-quarters full then you got the pass right.

Classic passing

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This is the hardest simply because there’s no visual feedback except the ball itself. You’ll need to do the same brief hold as in all the other control schemes, and if you did it right your QB should throw a nice arcing ball right to your target.

When you should throw a touch pass

A touch pass is perfect 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 its target way quicker than a lob, which should make it much harder for the defense to pick off.

For more College Football 25 guides, see our beginner’s guide or see how to pick the best pipelines for you.