This guide goes over the meaning, history, and gameplay relevance of the term “Alma Mater” in EA College Football 25.
EA College Football 25: What Does “Alma Mater” Mean?
In EA College Football 25, “Alma Mater” means the same thing it does in real life: it’s the college or university the person graduated from. When you are creating your coach, the alma mater represents the college they graduated from. You can pick any college for fun, or you can choose a college or university you attended in real life to make the coach feel more personal.
Does Your Coach’s Alma Mater Have Any Effect in EA College Football 25?
The alma mater you select for your coach doesn’t have any effect on gameplay in EA College Football 25. Feel free to pick any alma mater institution when creating your coach.
The History of the Term Alma Mater
Outside of EA College Football 25, someone will call the college or university they graduated from their alma mater. Alma mater can also refer to a college or university someone attended but didn’t graduate from, although it is almost exclusively in reference to the institution the person graduated from. It’s a Latin term that literally translates to “nourishing mother,” in reference to how universities are like mothers, meant to nourish their students with knowledge. The University of Bologna originated the term with their motto, “Alma Mater Studiorum” or “nurturing mother of studies.”
A related term is alumn. An alumn is a former student of any school of any level—including primary and secondary schools. So the alma mater is the attended school, and the alumn is the person who attended it. It’s common to hear the term “alumni” used in this way, but alumni is not only the plural word, but it’s the plural specifically of the word alumnus. Alumnus is the masculine form of alumn, which is neutral, and alumna is the feminine singular form of the word. Fun word facts: alumnae is the plural of alumna, and alumns is the plural of alumn.
Now that you know what alma mater means, get back onto the field with more of our EA College Football 25 guides, including how to fix Dynasty Mode when it’s not working.
