ESPN reporter Holly Rowe believes “College Football 25,” the forthcoming EA Sports college football video game, is missing some key personalities.
Taking to her X account, Rowe called out the lack of female sportscasters in the upcoming release after Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard, Rece Davis, David Pollack, Kevin Connors and Jesse Palmer were confirmed to appear.
“How about including some women @EASPORTS 30 years on the college football sidelines?” Rowe wrote in a quote-tweet of the unveiling.
“College Football 25” is set to be released sometime this summer.
Female sideline reporters have been featured in video games before, including ESPN’s Doris Burke, who appeared in “NBA2K.”
Rowe — an advocate for women’s sports and also covers the WNBA — just completed her 27th college football season for ESPN and ABC, during which she covered the College Football Playoff in January.
She also covers women’s college basketball and women’s college softball.
Rowe re-signed with ESPN/ABC on a long-term deal last March — a month after she was named a 2023 Curt Gowdy Media Award Winner (for electronic media) for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
She has been with ESPN full-time since 1998.